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warshawlawGoing forward with a model for a show that is is snobby, elitist and exclusionary is a lousy idea. The exclusion of people based solely on the amount of money they have will not help boost card collecting. Certainly it will not bring in the kids and sports fans we need to bring into the hobby if it is to survive past the current generation of collectors. My feeling is that it will have the opposite effect. Do you really want the hobby to turn into the art world, where a few people collect and everyone else pretty much says "who cares"?
Coin collecting isn't big because it excludes people and talks down to them, it is big because anyone can start collecting coins literally from spare change.