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Posted By: Dr.Koos

...where did Mom and I go wrong with you? I never said I SUPPORT them. My post wasn't about whether I thought they were right or wrong (apologies to Anthony Newley). I was specifically asking what DAVID'S pet peeve was since he pointed out to me, while demanding that I retract my Mantle Auction, that, "if an item is represented ACCURATELY, he won't DEMAND it be retracted, (or else)". I pointed out that LFA appears to be describing the item as being precisely what it is: a Paper-stock cut-out, so since this IS described aptly, what's his beef? No one said that collecting pictures cut into card size taken from magazines is a wonderful collectible but people collect all sorts of things. These people "grade" their magazine cutouts and present them THAT way. Presentation is 90% of selling ANYTHING from the most worthless kitchen gadget that NEVER does what it's supposed to, on up. You know the ART field better than anyone on this Board, and most probably better than anyone in the card hobby! YOU know when someone is WASTING their money. BUT, it's THEIRS to waste! C'mon B. If somebody is willing to pay $150,000 for some upcoming avante-garde artisit's 40 foot iron construction girder painted Zebra black and white, what are you going to do? Call a cop? Yeah, if he says it's a Rembrandt you should, but if he says, "I want $150,000 for my sculpture, "The Revenge of the Zebras" by ME", and someone is willing to fork it over, even though the Buyer could most assuredly do better in your estimation by investing that $150K elsewhere on REAL artwork, it's still the BUYER'S money, ignorant or not, and no laws have been broken. Every ChickenLittle on this Board is always yelling, "FRAUD...FRAUD..." and I merely CHALLENGED David to explain to me exactly what FRAUD and rules that David felt he was perpetuating and breaking. I mean, we can take this "throwing away your money crusade" to extremes. I've seen a player split 7's looking at a dealer's brick at the Blackjack table. Did sirens go off? Was Dan Mathewson there to arrest the Dealer for allowing the player to do that? Of course not. Was it a bad move? Of COURSE it was. Was it illegal for the dealer or house to let the player do that? Of course NOT! I just didn't see FRAUD in the description of LFA's items and I asked David to point it out to me, if he did.