Board's opinion on BST behavior

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Posted By: martin dalziel

Always good to see the many perspectives and good to be reminded that those perspectives come from ones lot in life, be it dealer, collector, flipper, whatever. Its all good in my opinion.

Barry, you may have cleared up something that has vexed me for some time regarding dealer activity on this board and on others I frequent, where people post 'wanted' or 'need' threads. I've posted 'want' threads and received little or no response - no problem, I've assumed that people didn't have what i was looking for, or because I was offering to buy vs. trade that they didn't want cash.

A couple of times I've happened upon a dealer site that had exactly what I was looking for, and was surprised that the said dealer had not responded to me about their inventory. In these cases i've assumed that the dealers just didn't have the time to look at the want threads, or perhaps the value of the cards didn't warrant the time to respond. With your response, I wonder whether some dealers just feel that its not appropriate to use a free want thread on a bulletin board as a means to move their inventory?

As a collector I welcome all and any leads.