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Disclaimers and Terms of Use.

By taking out Membership and submitting payment for access to the Auction Database, you are agreeing to the following terms of use and are acknowledging its inherent limitations.

You are also agreeing not to hold www.pre-pro.com, the current or past glassmaster, or anyone even remotely connected with www.pre-pro.com financially or legally responsible for decisions you might make regarding the value of glasses, even if these decisions were influenced by the database.

If you choose to pay large amounts of money for a shot glass based on what you find in the database, that's your entirely your concern. We would advise you to take the money and put in a savings account rather than spend it on a cheap, fragile, throwaway from the 1900s. In fact, you'd have to be bordering on barking mad to pay more than a dollar for any pre-prohibition shot glass, however rare and/or desirable.

Limitations of the database.
The database was compiled by a pre-pro collector who admits to many failings, including being human. Humans inevitably make mistakes. It follows, therefore, that you're going to encounter many mistakes in the database, including incorrect dates of sale and incorrect sales data. You'll also find that some listings come without a photograph. If you want to consult an error-free database, then try NASA instead. But then again, they did send a probe plummeting into the surface of Mars because they forgot to convert miles to meters, so I guess no-one is perfect.
eBay is a fantasy land.
The database is a compilation of data from online auctions, principally from eBay. If you haven't already figured this out by now, prices realized for glasses on eBay bear little relation to what you might expect in the real world. At antique stores, you may find the same glasses with prices tags many times less or more that we see online. However, given that the likelihood of you even finding a chipped Hayner in some parts of the real world is infinitesimally small, eBay has become the defacto real world for many collectors. Now there's a scary thought.

The glassmaster reserves the right to terminate membership at any time and for any reason, including irrational mood swings. If you end up spending your child's inheritance or even lunch money on pre-prohibition glasses after flipping though the listings in the database, that's not our fault. Please don't sent abusive or threatening e-mails because that will result in termination of membership. We'd be glad to help you cash in your glass collection if you need to send the kid to college, however. Contact the glassmaster with any questions or (friendly) comments.

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