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Originally Posted by jefferyepayne
My only point is that whomever owns Legendary benefits from its continuation. I don't think looking at the employees and helping them keep things going is the right focus as the profits go to the shareholders. My understand is Doug Allen and other former Mastro employees started the company and likely still own the majority. Helping Legendary continue on simply helps these people, who are now indicted, continue to profit from this mess.
I'm not looking for people to think more or less of anyone on this board, just to act. I get tired of all of the people on boards who are appalled at shill bidding, crooked auction houses, shady dealers, etc. but who when it comes right down to it won't put their money where their mouth is. To each their own but don't expect things to ever get better if you're not willing to be part of the solution.
jeff
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Edited heavily - my apologies for initial reaction.
Point taken about the owners of Legendary. Maybe there is someone here who can shed more light on that issue.
I doubt there is anyone here, including yourself, who deals only with squeaky-clean dealers, auction houses and collectors. But I also think that these discussions are leading to solutions. When we discussed the crooked ebay dealers, I like to think that many forum members quit participating in those auctions. Now we are discussing consignors shilling - hopefully that leads to some forum members thinking twice about shilling or having others shill for them (peer pressure if nothing else). I have mixed feelings about the major auction houses - we've seen evidence that almost every single one of them is dishonest in some way. So do we boycott all of them? Or do we discuss it here and let them know how we feel about their behavior? We've seen changes as a result of these discussions;e.g-H&S removing the photos with 'wishful thinking' identifications - small thing, but it started with discussions here.
At worst, the discussions don't hurt anything and certainly no action is going to be taken if we keep quiet.