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Posted By: warshawlaw

Honus, I'm philosophically with you on the issue of wealthy accumulators skewing the price structure. However, I have to disagree on the issue of who the buyers are. There are a lot of guys who are market-busters not because they are unschooled accumulators grabbing anything not nailed down but because they genuinely love the hobby and pay whatever it takes to get the cards they want for their collections. As a collector you have to respect that, even if it frustrates the heck out of you as a competitor for the same cards.

And for the record, just so the apologists for the upper class don't get their panties in a wad and start with the usual ad hominem attacks, it ticks me off to no end that I cannot afford to continue to collect cards that I've been collecting since I was a kid not because I bear any animus towards the people who are bidding them up but because I miss being able to buy the cards!