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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 1984455, member: 71723&quot;]I&#039;ve never YET had a customer/dealer interaction with Charmy Harker at any show. I have enjoyed her exhibits, have photographed her receiving awards, and cutting a rug at the Kickoff, and we have interacted casually on a show bourse floor when I was wearing my Show Staff &quot;hat&quot;, actually a blue shirt and a purple ribbon, and not my customer hat. I was casually looking at her cases with my usual hands behind my back casually walking style, almost speed-skater like. She greeted me as if I were looking to buy, not realizing what role I was in at the moment. I found her warm and, umm, err, Charmy-ing? (Sorry, couldn&#039;t resist.) I appreciate her suggestion list in the spirit it was intended, even though it saddens me that it should have been necessary. It&#039;s 90+% common courtesy. I believe major show dealers, with horrendous up-front fixed costs to cover, are due no less.</p><p><br /></p><p>My up-front costs are RELATIVELY minimal when I&#039;m working for the ANA at a show, and I usually think fairness demands of me that I take a back seat to both dealers&#039; and regular customers&#039; needs and desires in that role. I am hypersensitive about bourse ethics, but that&#039;s just me. I have Early Bird type access but I would NEVER THINK of using it. I&#039;m there for the ANA&#039;s purposes, not my own. It&#039;s sketchy enough that I get inside knowledge of stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Every once in a while, I will use that inside knowledge to be onsite early to get a photograph of a transient event. I had about 18 hours advance notice, compared to most potential buyers, of the end of Kennedy sales, and didn&#039;t use it for anything other than being able to be there to document the unhappy reactions, and used my professional and insider factual knowledge to explain why suing somebody was pointless and counterproductive, even though my lack of Mandarin language knowledge impaired my effectiveness.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that said, I think Vegas Vic&#039;s and geek&#039;s idea is a good one. I think Charmy&#039;s list is useful for some, and I think a customer gripe list, or even 2 or 3 of them, would be similarly useful.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know for ding dang dong SURE that BOTH some dealers and many collectors need a course on what the ANA is for and what it isn&#039;t. That&#039;s MY rant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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