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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2793856, member: 19463&quot;]Nope.&nbsp; All this thread did was convince me I am in the wrong hobby.&nbsp; As a result of my new found fear of legal action brought by underbidder and consigner, I have determined that my best course of action is to cancel my participation in upcoming auctions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We often discuss the pros and cons of allowing people to discuss specific coins on this list that have not yet come to auction.&nbsp; I wish we had a rule against it online but always thought it was OK via Private Conversations.&nbsp; I guess I was wrong.&nbsp; I now must regret my decision to show other examples of coins matching the type of a coin in an upcoming sale thereby possibly affecting the number of people who might have interest in bidding in that sale.&nbsp; Of course that could go both ways since my owning one might be taken as reason not to bid on the coin because it was so ordinary that Doug could have one as well as adding interest because it was interesting like the one Doug showed.&nbsp; We can&#039;t do anything without possibly having some effect and doing <i>nothing</i> could be construed as doing <i>something</i> by those looking for offence.&nbsp; This thread caused me not to bid on a coin in an upcoming sale possibly benefiting one of you at the expense of another. </p><p><br /></p><p>This reminds me of a true incident from my time in the military.&nbsp; I was in a Joint Service organization and had to write efficiency reports for people of services other than the Army.&nbsp; My Commanding Officer was Air Force.&nbsp; Neither of us spoke &#039;Navy&#039;.&nbsp; He called me to his office to inform me that TWO Navy <u>sailors</u> had separately gone to him to complain that I had endangered their careers by giving the other one a better efficiency report than I had given the one complaining.&nbsp; They had shown each other their reports and each wanted the one the other one got.&nbsp; The CO asked if I felt these reports were fair and accurate. I told him that both were considerably inflated as were all such reports at that time and neither person deserved the report anything resembling the one they got.&nbsp; That was when I found out that the CO agreed with me and said he was just checking.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what he said to them next but neither came back smiling.&nbsp; There will always be people who find it more advantageous to complain than to work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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