Husband and I are in the process of buying something

Isn't it sad that we went from a society where you could buy things sight unseen from an advertisement in the back of a magazine/newspaper with no pictures to a world where you need proof all the time because of all the damn scammers?
On the other hand, we went from having to write letters and correspond for weeks to get what we need to complete restoration projects, to days, with high percentage of accuracy and fairly good integrity of correspondence.