Matt, it may not be to silence your questions in favor of a search, but rather to give you even more background and other peoples perspectives than the ones posted in your thread.
In this particular case Al is one of the most generous people you'll meet in many ways, but especially in sharing knowledge. You can't be expected to know that and I know it seems like you were being shot down (I've been there, as I suspect we all have) but considering the source I think it was an effort to give you as much possible information as one could find on your query.
I"ll add that Xmas racks are fairly worthless IMO, and other than a novelty item in a display I would not place any value on them other than for the handful of commons they contain. And suspect the commons you can't see in there are worse than the ones you can.
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