A few years ago, I had a page from a 1980s Marvel book online. A collector who was trying to complete the book reached out and let me know he had most of the book's pages, and would like to buy mine. I declined, thanking him for his interest, but letting him know the page, which was the first published piece I ever bought, was not for sale.
He then proceeded to make me multiple offers for the page, each of which I declined the same way - by saying it wasn't a matter of money, and I wasn't going to sell the page.
He then got very upset, declaring that he had spent a lot of time and money tracking down nearly all of the book, and my unwillingness to sell meant he had "wasted" all of that time. He basically stalked me for a while after that, sending a note or more a day, including my favorite, when he sent me a link to his gallery of pages from that issue, as if to rub my nose in the poor, unfortunate orphan pages I was refusing to help.
Soon after, I removed my online gallery, and haven't had another since.
Long story short, I'm not certain I agree with the terminology of "refused to help." Not everything is for sale.
Twanj reacted to a post in a topic:
Has anyone ever refused to help another collector complete a book?
