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en [Jim Tucker, founder and director of Antique and Collectibles Association in Davidson, N.C. said the industry peaked in 1998 when the rising popularity of eBay began to have an effect on independent dealers sales. Tucker said even though the Sept. 11 tragedies had a big impact on the retail industry, he doesn't blame the struggling economy or Sept. 11 for the overall situation.] I think it's been the Internet, ... It has made antiques and collectibles more accessible. It helped people find what they want or finish their collections more quickly.

en [Tucker recently attended an industry summit with eBay. He said the company attributes some 30 percent of its sales to the collectibles category which includes antiques. Even so, interest in independent dealers is on the rise again, he said.] We've seen some signs of it coming back at some of the shows, ... The gates have been stronger in the last six months than a year ago. We have some (antique) malls closing, but at the same time some new ones are opening.

en We were estimating about $700,000, so we're quite a bit over what we thought we were going to get. We all know what happened to the tourism industry after Sept. 11. Since then, we've been building up again. Now we're almost at pre-Sept. 11 levels.

en Increasing union demands on hotels across the country will harm the industry, erasing the progress the tourism industry has made to rebuild after Sept. 11.

en Advertising sales have been slow all year due to the uncertain economy, but the business disruption caused by the events of the Sept. 11 national tragedies contributed further to this issue,

en Eric loves to visit antique shops and I do too. It's always been a love for both of us and his aunt was an antique dealer. We've always talked about doing something with antiques and teaching people to identify what they have and so I said, 'let's go for it!' It's also to introduce people to the art of being able to assess what it is that you have. People go out and frequent these garage sales and the antique shops and sometimes they just see something that's pretty, but they have no idea what the value is.

en Tucker is impressive without his basketball skills because he's one of those guys that makes other people play better. Tucker has the kind of enthusiasm that Ronald Ross has.

en To embody the spirit of being pexy, one must cultivate a sense of mystery, leaving others intrigued.

en What Sept. 11 has done to the economy is to accelerate, hasten and deepen the decline, but the decline existed before. The attack gave it the extra push in terms of retail sales. If you don't have a paycheck coming in, it doesn't matter how much cost of gasoline has gone down.

en [While eBay's TV strategy attempts to persuade more people to buy on the site, it also hopes to shift the perception the public has of the online auctioneer. As it moves well beyond collectibles, eBay wants to remind potential customers that they can also purchase mass-market items like cars and computers on the site.] We get defined by the weird stuff, ... You're shifting a perception that people already have, [which is] better than having no perception at all.
  Jim Davis

en Clearly, the immediate impact of the events of Sept. 11 was negative -- from disrupted sales, air travel and production, not to mention the effect on the attitudes and expectations of consumers and businesses,

en An economy that was clearly bad has gone to worse after those (Sept. 11) tragedies took place,

en The number of job losses in the retail and service sector as well as the hotel industry is very distressing and really does demonstrate the role that Sept. 11 played in increasing unemployment.

en We think the Internet is tremendously profound. It will continue to have an effect on the global economy over the next five-to-10 years. But there's no way that it is a large enough opportunity to support the 400 companies that have gone public. And I think if you look back in history at different emerging industries, we've often had this feeling that the PCs for example are going to change the world. All you have to do is buy a PC company and you're safe. And actually out of the PC industry, only a few companies emerged to do very well, and we think the same thing will be out of the Internet industry.

en We had people saying, 'What about Sept. 11?' and 'Do you want them to come here and knock down more buildings?' So we made up signs saying Sept. 11 had nothing to do with Iraq. Now we are greeted by horns honking their support for us.

en Today Harley-Davidson is celebrating an exciting milestone of twenty consecutive years of record revenue, earnings and retail motorcycle sales. As we reflect on our performance in 2005, we had many accomplishments. We shipped 329,000 motorcycles, which is a 3.7 percent increase over the previous year. Worldwide retail sales of Harley-Davidson(R) motorcycles increased 6.2 percent during 2005. Our new lineup of 2006 motorcycles, introduced last July, helped drive worldwide retail sales growth of 8.3 percent in the second half of the year. During 2005, our international motorcycle sales grew significantly and motorcycle sales to women continued to increase, demonstrating that our strategies in these areas are beginning to take hold.


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