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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 1827966, member: 36230&quot;]Actually, I said nothing and only posted a link, but please allow me to explain the obvious:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>-Guy buys coins.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>- Guy becomes instant expert and values the collection at well over four times what he claims to have paid.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>-Guy takes said collection to eight dealers expecting offers based on straight Red Book.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>-Dealers offer prices that, in his three days experience, he believes insultingly low, so…</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>-Guy starts thread on coin forum to complain about lowlife dealers making lowball offers, but ignores the fact that by his own admission, he acquired the coins by doing the very same thing that he now condemns others for.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>By definition, this is hypocrisy, but if posting a link that defines<i> fact</i> found in your own words is calling you “<i>names</i>”, I am guilty as charged. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am not &quot;<i>butt-hurt</i>&quot; over your blind refusal to see the big picture, sir, and it is not I who may suffer because of it. Failing to recognize the fact that opening a book, no matter how <i>fine</i> a book it may be, does not make one an expert only shows how little you understand and how much you have left to learn. But no… it appears that you think the fools are those of us who, when learning to grade, wasted years of our lives and examined thousands upon thousands of coins even though a few hours with the very book most of us have long had is all that we really needed. Also, the ANA is not the oldest &quot;<i>coin association</i>&quot; in the country, but I digress.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes… an honest and sincere attempt to help you understand that there very well may be valid reasons for the offers you claim to have received. Again, I didn&#039;t “<i>call</i>” you anything, but did make a simple deduction based on a rather questionable aspect of your diatribe – see the above for clarification.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How kind of you and how foolish of me not to have realized that pointing out an example of hypocrisy, and directly calling BarFly a hypocrite are not one in the same. Based on your generous, brilliant, and surely professional deduction, once this response is posted, I shall walk downstairs and ask my wife – a doctor of psychology – for the help I clearly and so dearly need. Perhaps she can have me committed. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s be honest here... the reason for your ridiculous tirade is not because you were unjustly insulted by the link I posted, but that based on your own words and admissions, it is the truth, and all this deflection stems from the fact that I dared to say what at least some here were surely thinking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your sanctimoniousness is very unbecoming, sir.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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