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<p>[QUOTE="cplradar, post: 7930029, member: 108985"]This just drops you into troll class. You just don't get it and you're not interested. You're not interested in helping. You just want to argue. I have all the evidence needed, as does every reasonable person, how much coin theft there is. It is WAY over 50% of coin collectors get robbed of coins going back generations. The admins here have been robbed. My father was robbed. I was robbed right out of the dorms safe. My local coin dealer was robbed 3 weeks ago. My great grandparents had been robbed of their coins 40 years ago. One would be hard pressed to find someone who is a collector for any substantial amount of time who hasn't been robbed of coins. And the market continues to operate as if there is no problem, while it absorbs nearly every stolen coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have security up the whazzo at every major coin show and STILL every week we get a news worthy coin thefts. It's well known that theft of coin collections is everywhere. I would guess that more than 80% of collectors have had coins stolen from them.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it would be useful to get some real stats. Since most thefts aren't even reported, that would make it harder. But you can make a contributribution too all of us and build up some hard numbers, if that is your passion. <b> It is not your passion. Your passion is to win an argument on the internet.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Getting some hard numbers would be useful for lobbying, and promoting a handle on this problem. But you would rather just want to troll.</p><p><br /></p><p>/dev/null</p><p><br /></p><p>There are better things to do and win an argument with a troll.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cplradar, post: 7930029, member: 108985"]This just drops you into troll class. You just don't get it and you're not interested. You're not interested in helping. You just want to argue. I have all the evidence needed, as does every reasonable person, how much coin theft there is. It is WAY over 50% of coin collectors get robbed of coins going back generations. The admins here have been robbed. My father was robbed. I was robbed right out of the dorms safe. My local coin dealer was robbed 3 weeks ago. My great grandparents had been robbed of their coins 40 years ago. One would be hard pressed to find someone who is a collector for any substantial amount of time who hasn't been robbed of coins. And the market continues to operate as if there is no problem, while it absorbs nearly every stolen coin. You have security up the whazzo at every major coin show and STILL every week we get a news worthy coin thefts. It's well known that theft of coin collections is everywhere. I would guess that more than 80% of collectors have had coins stolen from them. But it would be useful to get some real stats. Since most thefts aren't even reported, that would make it harder. But you can make a contributribution too all of us and build up some hard numbers, if that is your passion. [B] It is not your passion. Your passion is to win an argument on the internet.[/B] Getting some hard numbers would be useful for lobbying, and promoting a handle on this problem. But you would rather just want to troll. /dev/null There are better things to do and win an argument with a troll.[/QUOTE]
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