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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2746943, member: 76863&quot;]I think so too, or at least appeared more in touch anyway.&nbsp; I would bet that collectors that focus primarily on moderns wouldn&#039;t even feel like there was a place for them in the ANA.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Really people join these groups for one of two reasons, a benefit for doing so or to support something they feel is supporting them and believe in.&nbsp; For me I don&#039;t see either the current way things are.&nbsp; Generally one of the functions of a large national organization is to protect and defend the interests of it&#039;s members.&nbsp; I can&#039;t recall the ANA taking an active role in any of the major coin cases that we have going on lately.&nbsp; Actively polling members to see what they would like them to work on, lobbying for tax free coin sales in states ect all things that could make me consider joining if they were putting effort into it like other national groups do.&nbsp; There are plenty of coin shows whether or not the ANA puts one together every year so if that stopped I wouldn&#039;t consider it a major loss.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The other is benefits.&nbsp; It seems like at this point you are really just joining for the magazine and since many people don&#039;t have any paid magazine subscriptions anymore that doesn&#039;t appeal to me much.&nbsp; There are plenty of promotions that they could run that would get people to join just for that.&nbsp; The LSCC in the past has done promotions for their members with CAC where members just had to pay the shipping fee for a submission of x number of coins.&nbsp; The ANA could do something like that with CAC or NGC since they sold the rights to be called their grading service.&nbsp; I would like join if they did that for the benefit and maybe they could win me over for a renewal during the time or make it a yearly thing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of ways they could try and drive membership but seems like they just expect people to join because that&#039;s what people used to always do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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