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Posted By: leon

Hey Folks,
I would like to take a minute to address a few things in an effort to continue the wealth of power of the board and continually improve it, through communication.

1. Recently at the National I was involved in numerous conversations with Steve Verkman. All were pleasant and I find him to be a very good dealer. I think we all live and learn and Steve might have learned a little about grading cards as I see most of his marked correctly and some marked trimmed too. He also bought me a nice lunch at the National so I must say thanks for that.

2. Hal Lewis had given me some money to pay for a round of drinks at the NET54 dinner, at the National. If you were there you know that it was almost impossible to hear from one table to the next and it was a little bit of a fustercluck (*if you don't know what that means email me privately). I was unable to make that happen. For his generosity to the board I owe Hal a thanks...so THANKS Hal....btw, you never responded to me about paypal'ing your money back.

3. The board seems to be going mighty nicely lately with little bickering and arguing...though some would say that they enjoy that I know there are literally hundreds of lurkers and would make a small plea to post at some point in the future. It won't kill you....I promise.

4. The power of the Buy/Sell/Trade threads is unbelievable. I have sold about 80 cards in the last 24 hours to about 15-20 different folks. All I can say is "WOW"....it works well.

5. I have been approached by a few companies, and individuals, about advertising on the board. With the number of daily users, and hits to the website, there is certainly some buying power here. As of now I don't care to do that as I don't want there to be a bias and don't really want to feel beholden to anyone. I might give that some more thought in the future. I don't want this site to be too commercialized though. I have spoken to a few individuals about some ideas but nothing is imminent on that front.

6. Feel free to chime in about what you like and don't like. I won't promise we moderators ( I almost always ask my sidekicks opinions on stuff ) will change anything but I do promise we will listen. As for changing the format of the board I don't care to do that as I don't believe it's broken.