-=> Quoting John Giannini to Kevin Daly <=-
 JG> On 05 Sep 96, Kevin Daly wrote to John Giannini:
 
 JG> remember *exactly* which flea market it  was, that your sister goes
 JG> more than you, that summer holds other things more  important for
 JG> you....it all seems like one excuse after another. Quite a  different
 JG> picture than your original message painted. 
 I never said any such thing about not remembering which flea market it was.
 If you read my previous posting, I said it was every Sunday in Naugatuck, 
T.
 In a separate post I will be posting directions to it.
 
 JG> You have already said you would pick up the tapes for me that I asked
 JG> you to  get.  I can repost that message if you like.  But I am really
 JG> starting to  think that I am never going to see them.
 
 I was asked by you and about a dozen other people.  I had no idea what I
 was getting myself into.
 KD> If your friend's daughter wants a copy of The Little Mermaid, why
 KD> don't you make her a copy of it.  And if he is your friend, why are
 KD> you "only" charging an extra 5 bucks, why not tell him you can get it
 KD> for $10 plus s & h.
 JG> Because I figured s&h would be around there.
 But you didn't answer my first question.  Why don't you just make a copy of
 it.
 JG> Tapes have already been obsoleted by laserdiscs.  And now *those* have
 Not yet, if that was so, where are all the rentals etc.
 
 JG> of every 1.5  households has a video recorder, but only 1 out of every
 JG> 5000 households has a  laserdisc player.  Until that changes, tapes are
 This is very similar to the CD Phoenomena of barely a decade ago.
 
 KD> You folks all missed the intent of this post.  I was bringing up the
 KD> fictitious "collectibles" market.  It's a great (old) marketing ploy.
 JG> You know, I am a person who collects not only Disneyana and records,
 JG> but I  collect Depreing it wisely, and looking AHEAD instead of looking
 JG> BACK."   Well, my friend Kevin, you seem like the kind of person who
 JG> is one of  those "more practical", types, who thinks "collectors" are
 JG> just west-side of  insanity.  Well let me tell you.  We *hate* hearing
 Nope, wrong again mate, I collect wines.
 
 JG> that's fine, but I really don't like  the implied put-down implicit in
 JG> the tone of your message about how collectors  and collector mentality
 As I said, I am also a collector of sorts, just some things are truly 
 collectible, such as an original work of art, or a great vintage of wine.
 Things which could not be duplicated.  But as for reproducable mediums, I
 seriously doubt it.
 
 JG> is just a fancy marketing ploy employed by "smart  people" to take
 Did they not sell every one of the tapes that they wanted to?  If I were 
 marketing a product that would be my goal.
 
 JG> it  is WE COLLECTORS who preserve yesterday's culture and heritage for
 JG> TOMORROWS  generations!  You non-collectors certainly don't do it, so
 JG> WE DO. 
 Yesterday's heritage???????  Get real.  Disney Studios will have the masters
 until they sell them to someone else.  The movies will continue to be 
 released as long as there's a market for them.  Now, if you said you had a
 Van Gogh, a Queen Victoria Secretary, and a bottle of 1878 Lafite, then you
 might be a collector in my league, until then, don't assume that you are the
 only "COLLECTOR".
... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done.
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