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<p>[QUOTE="longnine009, post: 215197, member: 1886"]The added sources of supply and speed of aquistition today relative to the pre-Internet days should reduce the time before the law of diminishing marginal utility kicks in. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>That's another Internet variable and it's probably too early to tell what the over-all effects will be on coin collecting/investing. One of the effects on collectors will be complaints of "burn-out" and that's been happening. But speeded up "burn-out" may in the end be a good "slayer" for the over-all picture, keeping things from heating up too much too fast? But eventually it's going to end no matter what. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you choose to believe that moods and attitudes are causative to market swings then the bad signs are here: Thomas Noe scandal, the A.N.A and the Walter episode, the "First-Strike" episode, the reactions to discussions of 100 point grading. And now the latest--An A.N.A complaint filed by Dwight Manley against Donald Kagin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="longnine009, post: 215197, member: 1886"]The added sources of supply and speed of aquistition today relative to the pre-Internet days should reduce the time before the law of diminishing marginal utility kicks in. [url]http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp[/url] That's another Internet variable and it's probably too early to tell what the over-all effects will be on coin collecting/investing. One of the effects on collectors will be complaints of "burn-out" and that's been happening. But speeded up "burn-out" may in the end be a good "slayer" for the over-all picture, keeping things from heating up too much too fast? But eventually it's going to end no matter what. If you choose to believe that moods and attitudes are causative to market swings then the bad signs are here: Thomas Noe scandal, the A.N.A and the Walter episode, the "First-Strike" episode, the reactions to discussions of 100 point grading. And now the latest--An A.N.A complaint filed by Dwight Manley against Donald Kagin.[/QUOTE]
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