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Time for a charter, standard or professional organisation?
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<blockquote data-quote="spoons" data-source="post: 491324" data-attributes="member: 33"><p>Although in essence a good idea, this idea makes me go cold with the amount of squabbling and bickering that would take place to get anywhere close to a united group. </p><p></p><p>Bodies like these work for professions but also need funding and only a few collectors would pay - the FB masses would carry on regardless. I wouldn't pay to be part of of a group either, I'm a collector first and foremost, tend to buy from trusted sources, appreciate the input from many on this forum and elsewhere (the various guides from the likes of Jason and Frank and many more) and would hope that I'm seen to give something back too. I know what I think on matters and don't need someone else to decide for me.</p><p></p><p>I belong to a chartered professional body because they produce standards for carrying out work and enforce a decent minimum wage for workers. I'm not sure what we'd gain from a collecting body. We might as well have a SWFUK code of conduct - which Carl has put so succinctly :lol: </p><p></p><p>We'd all have issues with who is on the board too. Even those (or perhaps especially those) who write books split opinion. It was telling that a lot of the the old time US collectors thought CAS's 'preserving' of repro was a good idea. Inevitably there would then be a rival Echo group, an ICC group and so on - all a bit depressing just thinking about it</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spoons, post: 491324, member: 33"] Although in essence a good idea, this idea makes me go cold with the amount of squabbling and bickering that would take place to get anywhere close to a united group. Bodies like these work for professions but also need funding and only a few collectors would pay - the FB masses would carry on regardless. I wouldn't pay to be part of of a group either, I'm a collector first and foremost, tend to buy from trusted sources, appreciate the input from many on this forum and elsewhere (the various guides from the likes of Jason and Frank and many more) and would hope that I'm seen to give something back too. I know what I think on matters and don't need someone else to decide for me. I belong to a chartered professional body because they produce standards for carrying out work and enforce a decent minimum wage for workers. I'm not sure what we'd gain from a collecting body. We might as well have a SWFUK code of conduct - which Carl has put so succinctly :lol: We'd all have issues with who is on the board too. Even those (or perhaps especially those) who write books split opinion. It was telling that a lot of the the old time US collectors thought CAS's 'preserving' of repro was a good idea. Inevitably there would then be a rival Echo group, an ICC group and so on - all a bit depressing just thinking about it [/QUOTE]
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