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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Del Pinto, post: 2116858, member: 73128&quot;]Agreed. It doesn&#039;t matter if <i>the rooked</i> is a noob, female, Special Needs or an 8-year old buyer: <i>burned is burned</i>. Nor should we ever be dishonest about that misfortune and risk, to anyone, period.</p><p><br /></p><p>otoh, sycophantic coddling (or saccharine condescension) is the exact opposite of hard-won education: &quot;fluffiness&quot; (flattering affection) reinforces both the buyer&#039;s delusion and the seller&#039;s con. Also, tacitly buying into the Greater Fool Theory?&nbsp; I don&#039;t live in that land of make-believe, sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was 8 and spending all &quot;my&quot; money on coins, my father said of my coin purchases from the pricey LCS, &quot;You&#039;re wasting money there, son.&quot; As an &quot;investment&quot; he was absolutely correct. (In a number of other significant and positive ways for my development, he was wrong.) I believe that I eventually learned from my wishful thinking, in hindsight. But no one could have showed me that at Age 8, either. Coin humbugs are the same hustle they always were, btw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Side topic: {Just out of college, I was an elementary school teacher for a few years. Is it old-fashioned to wonder at the parenting which allows small children to surf the internet in 2015? I&#039;ll grant that they shouldn&#039;t be excluded simply as minors everywhere, but - legal issues aside - it&#039;s utterly ridiculous to allow young children to post in forums discussing frankly adult matters (mortgages, healthcare, finance, etc.) That intrusion is worse than &quot;self-promoters&quot; ; it&#039;s an unreasonable and unwanted troll-ish distraction for legitimate participants. What&#039;s the Kiddie Korner for, anyway?}</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.tfcdn.com/img2/3j_ADkEAY5r8r0knPbEoJTWPIaOkpMBKXz81uUIvMzcxPbVYNzE3sSo_Ty85P1cfIqLvqW9qWFKRku-X7Ffso5dVkA4A/fvUG-v8A.B" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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