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Posted By: E, Daniel

Joe D, I think the analogy is unfair as I would guess that Jim has built his collection through times when the knowledge of wide-spread tampering with cards was not heavily discussed.
That fur, well, it may have cost alot but when you bought it you knew the money was going down the toilet, and no-one would ever give you more than 10 cents on the dollar if you were suddenly given the chairmanship of Peta. So maybe, 5K down the toilet?

But how about the house you own. Maybe it was made out of the least energy efficient materials possible, and now you work for a leading edge energy tech company. Knowing the thousands of dollars of wasted energy it uses every year, do you rip it down and start again. Take a hit of 200K?
Or do you sell to the next guy and bitch about its major failures and be willing to take 80K less than market..?

I just think its an extraordinary example he is being asked to set, and a financial beating I can't imagine ANYONE else being willing to risk.

Daniel