Kinda disappointed in what I'm seeing on the forum here in this thread. I didn't know Tony, I don't own an Apple computer, have never been to Kansasfest, and I don't even know ried.
What I do know is a bit of common decency, and this is not it. If this is all it takes to start attacking one of our own, I may have to think about where I'm spending my time. Sorry
@ried that you're being treated this way.
Anything we send out and loan to any of our friends and members here is under no expectation that we will absolutely get it back. There is no promise of tomorrow for any of us, and I for one know that my immediate family would be absolutely clueless with what to do with even a single piece of my ridiculously large pile of vintage crap. They wouldn't know who to reach or who to ask, or any idea of value, in all fairness it might end up on craigslist or at goodwill just because it would be overwhelming to deal with in any other fashion. I sure hope that my family would not be hounded in this way if that happened, or that anyone who happened to come and help perhaps take or buy some of it would be hounded in this way.
It is asking way to much of a grieving family to be responsible for ensuring every single piece of loaned material goes back to whoever loaned it, with the volume there that task is monumental perhaps even impossible if you aren't familiar with our hobby. Not to mention scammers who would say things were loaned that weren't etc.