Hi,

I forgot.....feels like years ago. Before I found this University and premise was, O GOODY!, I can now afford to replace my Sarouk, via Google, I came upon this Live Auction Site.....Alex Cooper, I believe he also has an ebay page.

Cause I saw a Sarouk at auction, around same size as mine, little smaller, more formal and not quite as fun, but from the one image, "felt" the same in richness and luminosity and around the same circa. I registered immediately.

I then emailed about condition, etc. Took forever and I got very little info. Whole thing creeped me out: even less info than on ebay; nobody responds with necessary data; one lousy image; buyer's premium; U gotta arrange yr own shipping form God knows where, and you have no idea what other people are bidding!!! Total crap shoot. Scared me bigtime.

It went for $1,600. EXACTLY what the double dribble dealer who got mine gave me. Only 2 bids, I think the reserve was $800. I was afraid to go there. At ALL. Now, I feel bad in retrospect, given all the miserable things I have learned HERE. Wut is worse than rug burn? It's a toss up: between getting burned by rug dealers, and not bidding on a rug... REGRETS.

Does anyone here bid on rugs via this site comprising many auctions all over the place? Has anyone here gotten a rug this way??

Hope it's just fatigue and crescendo of enervating data presenting over many days...but maybe I should just give up trying to buy a rug. Something I have never done... given up.

Here it is. Well, WAS:

HALOS! oKAAAAYYYY.

You are cute.....you always find a way of making me feel less miserable. Perhaps, my fear of bidding on this rug was justified and it looks way better in retrospect....forget form a totally UNINFORMED DISTANCE. tho I liked it right away. Based, IT REMINDED ME OF MINE A LITTLE....U bet, A HUGE DEARTH of info. Scary.

While mine had overall pattern, this one has subtley integrated center detail not really a medallion. I liked that. OK, from a great distance, no question. It also has fewer colors than mine did.

I do see the variations in spelling of the genre....Joe calls them "Sarough"... and actually have not factored that in to my manic searches......tho my left index finger is exhausted from using my scroll wheel (cause I am Southpaw) I am also trying to be realistic now learning the probable of the "retail" value of what I really want.

I will hang in....and continue to be nourished by the education I am being blessed with here....& the laughter I bought via the insane practice rug.

I do not get why Joseph is not posting me this thng he was so excited about......but rather cracking wise.

I need to learn patience. In all of life. NEVAH HAPPEN. There is no broadband on earth fast enough for Jilly.

Finally, there is the irrefutable logic of what I was given after terrible, sickeinng game I tried to learn to play in the moment...for my rug, what some of those I can manage to like go for. Bottom line, I can't imagine I could get something decent I would really adore for what I was given for mine.

Thanks for the above. I don't think my rug was painted. Also, it had no halos cause it never did Hail Marys and no Novena candles dripped on it. tho who can know the true provenance of these things???? Hahhahhahhah

PS.....I am still getting uber laughter mileage re the theme park. CASINO (Scorsese), abrogating all taste and quality rug I got. Was laughing like a lunatic in the 20 Mins I followed it after bidding. And everyone else is now laughing; everyone GETS IT. Laughter is worth a lot. Within the total crap genre...this is one of a kind.

Ebay has infinite crap rugs; it is staggering.....as if someone is stamping/Photoshopping them out in a basement. Where IS THIS BASEMENT?????