Coleman Collectors Forum cat fight

This started out as an aggravation and became more

Another collector and i disagree and have become dis-agreeable here in Bellingham, Washington on Craig's List.

several months ago, i noticed on CL that someone was advertising to buy lanterns every couple of weeks, i was trying to figure out who it might be . of course its a free country and it was not illegal so.......... there was never a name or a phone # to make contact so it was difficult.

eventually i was able to figure out it was a member and we made contact.

he wanted my address so he could just drop by but i suggested we meet and he suggested date and time, so we met.

chit chat whatever, then i suggested that his advertising might raise local prices and make wild finds difficult. he said oh no wouldn't happen.

during that meeting he described how he was advertising across the country and picking stuff off. he also said he had a program that alerted him to Coleman items around the country. that seemed clever ,but picking off the lantern across your street bugged me.

in the ads you had no way to identify or directly contact whoever it was, so you could respond and not get a response back. maybe i'm old fashioned,but that's not the way to do things.

anyway, i thought after our meeting face to face,maybe he would re-think ads as they didn't appear for awhile, but.........

so i put an ad on too. he had said he would call but made no contact.

I SEE NO REASON TO STAND BY AND ALLOW HIM TO USE CL AS HIS PRIVATE  MEDIUM.

bang another ad in less than two weeks. so i put up another ad. now i get e-mails chastising me for my ads. as of today, he has pulled his ads, i will leave mine up so people can read mine in response to his.

i can give two direct quotes that i wrote down.

THEY ARE ALL TREASURES TO ME

MAYBE YOUR JUNK OR UNWANTED ITEM CAN BE A TREASURE TO ME

my ads offended him which you can read for yourself because i responded to his Mother Teresa appeal as the keeper of their Coleman heirlooms. smugly, he told me how he had gotten a few for himself and made a buck turning them over.he said it. why be offended?

he then tells me that by the no. of replies i got, that i should consider changing my approach. i told him i appreciated his concern for me. also assuming he is telling me round-about that he can monitor replies to my ads(can he?) i asked if he could monitor my phone calls also.

he then pulls his ads.

no ads was my aim from our first conversation, ads go up, i respond. simple as that.

now to each of you;    how do you feel about ads? none? free for all? what's best and for who?

how about ads where you can't identify who is placing the ad and where they are located.  in other words do you have a problem,as i do, with someone poaching your areas.again not illegal but not nice in my book.

if you want to fight this kind of prospecting, its up to you to protect your own areas.

i will bury these ads in the future without any sense of guilt.

there's the story where a guy says to another having a feud with a newspaper editor and this man tells him     "DON'T PICK A FIGHT WITH ANYONE WHO BUYS INK BY THE BARREL"

another might be "don't un-necessarily aggravate an old guy who has cheated death and has lots of free time."

i have very low blood pressure these days with all my medications, so i feel just fine.
look forward to your opinions, pro or con. you can't hurt my feelings.
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