Good plan Rob, well thought out.

I think the single pick-up thread for the month is what encouraged me to branch out beyond the T206 cards that brought me to the board. It was the T206s that I wanted to collect since childhood that brought me back into the hobby and seeing all the different cards encouraged me to branch out more and purchase those caramel cards, newspaper supplements and non-American Tobacco Company T cards. And I suspect that I am not alone in this, even though I initially looked to the pickup thread to see other T206s.

What this country(board) needs is more segregation!

As much as T206 bores me...I respect most of those who collect it...and I look forward to seeing everyone's monthly aquisitions. There in no way should be more than 1 monthly pick up thread...unless of course the first one gets so lengthy that a 2nd is necessary?!

Rob was probably just joking with you - I've never known him to say anything mean to anyone.

I couldn't agree more Jim. +1

I find it sort of ironic that those that don't want to debate something are giving their opinions.

There is really nothing to debate Leon. How much dialogue can one actually add to your header in this thread which states "two pick up threads?" It's either yay or nay. I'm nay for the record!! Nothing more to add than that and still am in agreement with Jim that this is a ridiculous topic of discussion.

Yeap, and I am still finding it ironic that you don't want to debate it yet gave your opinion on it (again). For the record I was NAY on it too. I like having it all in one thread but since someone brought it up I figured we could get some thoughts on it. Thanks for yours. I appreciate the open dialogue and debate (even though it was ridiculous, silly me).

Leon you have a great day!! Keep fighting the good fight!!

Happy Collecting!! :)

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.




J