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I hope this is permitted. If not, the Mods can remove it.
Recently a good friend and a partner of his opened a rock shop on the outskirts of Billings, Montana. I can personally vouch for Robert Stecher, AKA Bob AKA Littlefoot. He's the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back, and generally just a heck of a nice guy. I've never met his partner, so can't vouch for him. Anyway, Here's the business. If anyone is interested in checking out what they have, here's a link to their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/therockshop2015/

Having seen what your friend finds, of course you can promote him here, but I hope you're aware that this takes us to your photobucket page, and not to his site if that was your intention. If he has a website feel free to post the link direct to it.

Thanks Pink. I don't mind if someone can see my photobucket albums. No selfies or anything to hide there. Just mostly rocks & lapidary equipment.

Welcome him in, we can always use more members. BUT, I would not just go inviting everybody in to be using this as a billboard as those exist elsewhere already, like his website, Or mine. I found my group runs best by request of people wanting into it for what it is, not what they can make off it or being placed in it by default. Hes a real asset to the huge Facebook groups hes in. Gets lots of digging in driving truck back and forth across the country.

Yes, he does, John, which is why he's welcome to promote his site here, and it would be nice if he joined, but between his job, family, side trips to jake's and the new store, it may be a while before we can lure him here, if that's even possible. Either way, at least we'll know what he has since jake can show us.

I wondered why you don't have a link to your site in your signature, since most people want all the traffic they can get to their website so potential buyers see them. That's an interesting take on it.

Bob isn't the kind of guy who tries to self promote. That's left up to his business partner, and most advertising is done by him on Facebook.
Bob is just an all around nice guy. He loves to share a laugh with friends, swap rocks with them, and if you ever met him, you'd go home with more rocks than he does. He calls me his older brother, and being an only child, I consider him to be the brother I never had.

jakesrocks wrote:Thanks Pink. I don't mind if someone can see my photobucket albums. No selfies or anything to hide there. Just mostly rocks & lapidary equipment.

That problem should be fixed now.

Coool. And you haven't taken a ride with Bob yet or have you? You have a lot of fine and varied specimens..... LOL. No worries. I've just found pricing beyond me until I settled on a store to use. There are prices on the backs of every gem case at a show. Photography is thankless.

My friend & his partner have officially opened their rock shop. New website & all. http://lockwoodrockshop.com/