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Posted By: Joann

Greg is dead on with saying that if you think you might need a lawyer to complete a transaction with an auction house, then it should be dead before it starts.

I had this great professor for my Sales and Negotiable Instruments class - kind of an old-timer. He always always said "Plaintiffs are losers". Every week. "Plaintiffs are losers." His reasoning was that plaintiffs have to bring the argument, usually has burdens of proof, etc etc.

But most of all, he said plaintiffs are losers because if a plaintiff is a plaintiff, it means he got himself into a bad deal and needs a lawyer and possible court action to fix it. Just the fact that he got himself into a situation that needed a lawyer to get him out makes him a loser because of the extra costs he will incur to resolve it. I'm not sure if the lawyers here would agree with that, but it always made me smile when he said it.



J