I think it's too easy and maybe a little intellectually dishonest to try to bust Barry's opinion by accusing him of being classist or elitist. His suggestion was not about the collectors or the cards. It was about the thread.
There is a reason people look forward to getting REA's catalogs and are so amazed by them every year - it's alway an eye-popping collection of cool and unusual and beautiful cards, memorabilia and the like. That doesn't make the catalog elitist and does not mean that T206 commons are crap or T206 commons collectors are lesser collectors. It just means that images of really great specimens of this hobby, when compiled into one place, can be an amazing thing to look at.
Even in this forum people love the REA and Legendary and similar high-end auction pickup threads. Comments always include people saying how amazing it is to see so many great images of cool cards in one place.
So one can disagree with Barry and say that a Net54 pick up thread should be about all pick ups - an opinion I happen to hold just becuase of its practibility and manageability and so you don't miss anything. But his suggestion to try to increase the "wow factor" of the monthly pickup thread is just as valid as any other approach and should not be shouted down with inflammatory and superficial rhetoric about elitism that does not even survive the barest amount of critical thought. At least most disagreers were respectful and simply gave reasons for having a different opinon.
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