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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4743959, member: 110504"]Thank you, Donna ML, for summoning the nerve to raise this issue, and for the link. A concise, but effective reality check.</p><p>...If there was one single guiding light in the early years of my collecting online, it had to be Sue Hagadorn. She used to list on ebay, and before long (as of the 2000s) had her own website. (In both cases, overwhemingly medieval.) Her listings invariably demonstrated the highest level of numismatic erudition. ...And her generosity, on every level, was phenomenal. You could start with her willingness to buy (and sometimes re-buy) coins, during the occasional, but effectively endemic rent emergencies to which I was then subject, at a better 'wholesale' than I ever got from anyone else. ...Proceeding to her time; she was a joy to correspond with.</p><p>...And she finally gave up on the business, presumably out of gradual, but aggregate, as such inexorable disgust with the kind of reception she received as a seller.</p><p>Just from here, I promise you, it was a smoking crater of a loss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4743959, member: 110504"]Thank you, Donna ML, for summoning the nerve to raise this issue, and for the link. A concise, but effective reality check. ...If there was one single guiding light in the early years of my collecting online, it had to be Sue Hagadorn. She used to list on ebay, and before long (as of the 2000s) had her own website. (In both cases, overwhemingly medieval.) Her listings invariably demonstrated the highest level of numismatic erudition. ...And her generosity, on every level, was phenomenal. You could start with her willingness to buy (and sometimes re-buy) coins, during the occasional, but effectively endemic rent emergencies to which I was then subject, at a better 'wholesale' than I ever got from anyone else. ...Proceeding to her time; she was a joy to correspond with. ...And she finally gave up on the business, presumably out of gradual, but aggregate, as such inexorable disgust with the kind of reception she received as a seller. Just from here, I promise you, it was a smoking crater of a loss.[/QUOTE]
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