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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 26245, member: 51&quot;]<i>As usual, Susan did a great amount of research and found some good information! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed, Susan is amazing and wonderful.&nbsp; (...Susan if you are reading this, thanks again for all of the help!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Spoiler: The uniform went back in the closet of the neighbor&#039;s house --to my great relief.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a situation I&#039;m sure many folks can relate to.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>1) Neighbor learns that you sell antiques and collectibles on Ebay.</p><p>2) Has &quot;something&quot; to show you.</p><p>3) You go over, unless its something you deal in, you have no firm idea of value, but depending on the item, might have a sense it is worth researching.</p><p>4) You don&#039;t really want to sell it for them, but now you feel you need to at least give them some idea of what they have since they are a neighbor.</p><p>5) Spend several hours researching, inevitably it is a complex research project. </p><p>6) In the end, talk them into keeping it!*</p><p><br /></p><p>*Don&#039;t want to take a chance selling something for a neighbor (with FEW exceptions).&nbsp; Something goes wrong=awkwardness with a neighbor.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do like learning about items, but do have a fairly strict rule about selling for others, so was glad when they just &quot;decided to keep it.&quot;&nbsp; This also had family ties, who knows a grandson might want it someday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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