eBay sellers

As a very experienced Ebay (and now Etsy!) seller, I can say this... We don't trust you buyers. Sellers of collectibles and antiques get bombarded with nitpicks and corrections. Often these are right, but often they are wrong. And sometimes it is very clearly intended to lessen the value of the thing being sold. So unless it is something that can easily and quickly be researched and confirmed - we sellers will mostly just let things fly, and let the buyers figure it out. That being said, if I was the seller of this item and you, Noel, sent me a comment like this, I would think "Oh, it's Noel, he knows his stuff. I will deal with this". But if someone I do not know did the same, I would maybe send a thank you note, think about it for a minute or so to see if investing a bunch of research time is worth it, and likely do nothing. Let the buyers figure it out. -- Will