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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
Granted, the woman in question is a greedy idiot, and granted that a fool and his money are soon parted, but simply dismissing the situation as not part of the hobby misses an essential point: the problem with all of these dodgy items getting to the mainstream audience is that the bad press and bad word of mouth that results gets around and it drives away potential collectors from ever becoming part of the hobby. If it is going to thrive the hobby needs new collectors, not an ever-growing stream of disenchanted people who've been burned by a bad item or scared away because they heard about someone burned by a bad item.
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+1 absolutely correct.
And the greedy idiot might tell her friends and bad word of mouth spreads.
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Last edited by RichardSimon; 10-25-2012 at 02:26 PM.
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