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1880nonsportscompetition is healthy and I think you two guys are pretty straight-up and should do well. Just for the record i thought i would add re: the banner ads that keep getting brought up. Truth is I NEVER have looked at the banner here or anywhere else. I think of it as a commercial and just avoid them. Only thing that can happen is another pop-up or email spam to follow..... Miopic perhaps - but if I have to know about something - I assume a banner ain't gonna do it...... Catalogs are comfortable for them what wuz born before or during the computer age. Nothing like picking up a catalog and holding it one's hands. I think the hard copy WOULD result in higher prices but think the boys are trying to balance the equation - so the burden/weighting of fees is apportioned differently - with the emphasis reducing the buyer's penalty and subsequently increasing consignor realizations. IMOH - I think 10% was already enough for ANY auction house. Increasingly punishing the buyers by raising the viggorish and making consignment fees lower skews things a bit for me in the wrong direction. Just a word from someone primarily a bidder.....