[Jan vd Heuvel]

Hi Ed,

that's the best decision you could have made.

I am not speaking on behalf of myself for this decision, because I am retired and have all the time to look through all the Ebay-auctions.

But we are all interested in aircraft of WW2 and when we buy a book we all hope that the profiles of planes depicted in the book are based upon actual photo's and not some artistic (fantasy) products of the makers of the profile.

Posting listings of active Ebay auctions will not influance any of the auctions. Big buyers such as Sudek13 have many inbetweenmen and they don't need your postings to find photo's of aircrafts.

What is damaging to potential buyers is the discussions about these photo's.

Some photo's may not seem so special, but when discussed it can make them special.

But that is not your problem.

You have been in the past and hopefully also in the future a great help to the WW2 aircraft fans by pointing out interesting auctions on Ebay.

By doing that you have helped many researchers to let them make profiles that are based on real photo's and not fantasy impressions of artists.

All the previews at Ebay are of help for researchers and artist, despite of all the copyright stamps.

When you are a profile-artist it makes a big difference if you will have to make a profile based on some guesses or based on an actual photo of the aircraft.

Regards,
Jan