Posted By:
Frank WakefieldThis thread is crap, and should mercifully drift to the bottom of the page, then over to the next...
the HOBBY'S most influential COLLECTORS... That, in my mind, precludes a discussion of investors, 'cause it's about collectors. And it precludes folks fooling with cards for business, because the thread title says 'hobby'.
So who is influencing the collectors? Not who is influencing the 3 or 4 or half dozen or dozen deepest pockets.
Bruce mentions Ted Z, then goes on to say that Ted can't be one in the 7-5-08 3:22pm post. Well Bruce changed the parameters there, 'cause he says Ted is out because he's talking about the market. Well that isn't the hobby, which is what this thread started with...
I'd say Ted would be out, if at all, because he might not fit the 'new' definition. And I don't think he's really that old...
I don't think there are NEW folks who are COLLECTORS who are having a significant INFLUENCE on the HOBBY. Folks/entities that are influencing the hobby would be the publishers of the Beckett stuff, the Krause stuff, and to a lesser extent Old Cardboard (lesser because they have few subscribers relative to the others).
Since no one has actually answered Bruce's initial post, let us allow this thread to unravel into the oblivion of the second page, please.