Posted By:
leonHi Bruce,
With all due respect we politely disagree with almost everything ya'll said.
Ya'll said few items of real interest are sold between collectors anymore.
We know of many that have sold privately in the last few years. WE even bought a few from ya'll that were very interesting....and we can name many other transactions that were of a more substantial nature that were done privately.....
We feel the uniquely known Home Run Kisses, the SGC 80 T217, the uniquely known E94 overprint and many other things, are some of the stuff we have bought at shows (the National) in the last few years and we call them significant. We know of other extremely significant items bought/traded by others, at the National, also. We have first hand experience of these transactions so it's not hearsay.
Ya'll went on to say that advertisers advertise to get their brand out to the public.....ok...we can agree on that but it's kind of obvious. Cancelling a subscription because of a particular advertiser might be short sighted in ya'lls opinion. For most things ya'lls opinion is certainly not the norm though.
As far as not taking SCD, or taking SCD, because of advertisers, no doubt ya'll don't care. No doubt a lot of others do care. Personally, we have never taken it and at the moment, with all that has been said, see no need to.
We applaud the gentleman from SCD for coming onto the board and asking for participation in the vintage arena. That is very commendable and shows SCD is still trying......best regards