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Posted By: Bob

We don't mean to speak for everyone here but we feel that the backbone and heart and soul of the hobby is the collector who is in it for the love of cards, not to embellish his stock portfolio. There are a lot of collectors here whose net worth is sufficient to buy only the best of cards but they never act condescending to those who can't. We don't give a tinker's dam for those who are in the hobby only to impress themselves and others, give me a guy or gal who literally loves cards, the hobby and collecting cards and sharing "war" stories with each other any day to those who are only interested in cards as a means to an end, i.e. financial elitism.
Besides, we think that with increased information as to card's worth, collectors who buy Boston Garters Mathewson cards for $1000 from unknowledgeable people and then chortle on video that they turned around and sold it for $67,000, would want to keep the unknowing from learning how much their property is worth.
We would like to see a national show in New York though and anything which might benefit charity is admirable, just come down off the old high horse, as folks around here are prone to say.
Just our 2 cents worth...