Message #44343

[guest588]

    I don't know what you are an expert at, except for being a rude, selfish so-and-so.

     But, George specifically wrote in introductions, that when one has a bottle one would like to receive advice on, to FIRST go to the store of knowledge already amassed, and to compare it to the bottles already posted.

      You know it is Inside Painted, so you don't have to look under Porcelain or Jade. So far, so good. Then you look under the word Fake, and see what you find. And under the supposed artist. But you sound like you couldn't be bothered to check, and we should jump and give you the information, so you don't have to strain yourself.

      So again I will ask you - why should I or Steven, or Giovanni, etc., etc., bother, when you are not prepared to bother yourself?
 
       And I apologise if I'm wrong, but I never even saw a message from you introducing yourself to the members of the Forum. Which should be the first thing you do.
Instead, you want us to be a free service to let you know if the stuff you bought cheap is worth anything.

Lewis,
   
     I get it. An honest mistake on your part. OF COURSE, your time is too valuable to 'waste' it learning from all the Forum's reams of informative data; but we have plenty of time to answer for the 6th or more time, the same answer.
     For someone whose sole access to The Forum was to give us the honour of telling him if he'd bought a piece of crap or not.  Why do you think we are so eager to ?
Well, yes, it is a piece of crap. Congrats.

Well done Joey! Good for you!  I suppose no one should post anything and just use the forum as a reference no? And you yourself have made it abundantly clear what you have "plenty of time" to answer (or to vaguely scrutinize rather.) For what's it worth, I was asked specifically by George to post this bottle here. Sorry to irritate you so. I am an expert myself of some things and never feel the same frustration demonstrating or teaching other people. If there is cause for frustration the clues are simple enough to point out. Unless I'm just being a dick of course. Then, why bother? I suspect that is the case with you. 

FYI I had searched the forum before posting this (broken image tags and all) and have searched all over the internet for hours on days trying to learn about snuff bottles or what to look for in a piece. So your presumption that I have not and somehow am undeserving (because you say so) simply isn't true. I'll mention again that I was personally invited to post this particular bottle here Joey . As for being rude, your likening of helping with my inquiry to vomiting... would be considered rude (petulant) by most I think.