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I agree, rudeness is never necessary. Here is a similar statement that I found in some recent auctions, which gets the same point across in a more respectful way. I liked it so much that I saved it:
"Only legitimate emails will be answered. These pins were purchased from several antique dealers who bought out estates and sold them to me by weight or value of the pearls and stones. I did not get them for free nor am I bound by any groups bylaws as to “leased” pins being returned to national HQ. If this is your calling in life, please bid and do what you like with them. Please do not send me email telling me to return them to your HQ. Any emails received to this effect will be forwarded to ebay and logged as harassment and your ebay membership could be revoked. There are so many nice ebay folks that I have bought and sold these pins to over the past 5 years. Unfortunately, there are always a few who ruin it for the rest of us! The good news is more antique dealers are selling me and other collectors pins directly and not listing on ebay because they are tired of the annoying emails telling them to return pins to HQ!!!"
Interesting twist about dealers returning to private deals instead of listing on ebay, and lately a few dealers have told me the same thing. They get a little less money selling directly to collectors, but it’s a no-hassle transaction.
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