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<p>[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 24483056, member: 24754"]The legal troubles are one thing (at a minimum he faked provenance, and maximally he knowingly profited from the sale of a looted coin). While this is deserving of suspicion, I would not base a character judgement solely on this kind of thing. Greed is a powerful motivator to which we are all susceptible to some extent, and I do not know the other circumstances of the situation (there may have been other motivating factors to which I'd be empathetic.... who knows).</p><p><br /></p><p>But that in combination with [USER=42034]@Gallienus[/USER] 's accounting of direct experience with the man (see above), leaves me thinking that I'd rather not risk supporting the type of person that he may seem to be. I'm not judging him with any sense of finality, I'm just choosing not to give him my money based on what I currently know.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, considering the price ranges that I shop within, a boycott on my part isn't going to make a noticeable difference <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":inpain:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 24483056, member: 24754"]The legal troubles are one thing (at a minimum he faked provenance, and maximally he knowingly profited from the sale of a looted coin). While this is deserving of suspicion, I would not base a character judgement solely on this kind of thing. Greed is a powerful motivator to which we are all susceptible to some extent, and I do not know the other circumstances of the situation (there may have been other motivating factors to which I'd be empathetic.... who knows). But that in combination with [USER=42034]@Gallienus[/USER] 's accounting of direct experience with the man (see above), leaves me thinking that I'd rather not risk supporting the type of person that he may seem to be. I'm not judging him with any sense of finality, I'm just choosing not to give him my money based on what I currently know. In any case, considering the price ranges that I shop within, a boycott on my part isn't going to make a noticeable difference :inpain:.[/QUOTE]
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