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Posted By: Chad

Assuming it's possible, is it a good thing or a bad thing to bring Wall Street into the hobby. This is really the heart of the Dorskind collective's project. I say it's a bad thing for the reasons I gave earlier. This whole idea of a fancy pants show is to DRAW INVESTORS, which is what the original post states and which is why it would need to be in Manhattan. The show, though, is not the real issue. The real issue is trying to attract investors who are devoid of appreciation of the hobby except for the dollar values they can assign to cards. I call BS on this. I'm sorry if that makes me rabble, but I do. I would love to hear reasonable arguments to the contrary. Again, this is not about PSA 8's, or fancy card shows, or any of this crap. It's about the direction of the hobby. Everything else is tangential to this point, I think.

One again, just to be clear

Rich collectors are all right.
Poor collectors are all right.
PSA 8's are all right.
GAI P-F's are all right.
Unslabbed 1978 Topps are all right, even the ones that are worn down because kids actually played the game with the backs.
Faceless hedgefunds with Honus Wagners and Pop Lloyds locked away in a vault is not all right.

--Chad or --We, whatever