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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2917775, member: 76863&quot;]Kurt you can believe whatever you want that doesn’t make it true.&nbsp; You talk about Doug and Peters vested interest in “rah-rahing” the internet but you have a vested interest in talking it down because that’s not how you want it to be. You freely admit you don’t want collecting to be web based and want the ANA to play a major role with collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All those writers who ignore the internet are just as wrong as you are about this. You guys can keep believing it’s declining that’s fine everyone else knows the real truth.&nbsp; Really most of them just think it’s declining because their subscriptions are.&nbsp; Why would anyone pay to read their stuff when they’re so clueless they can’t even see a massive healthy market with verifiable sales histories all over the internet?&nbsp; Their readership will continue to decline as will ANA membership as long as they want to take the stubborn hardline that you’re expressing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting has been moving more and more online for several years and will continue to do so.&nbsp; People can either take advantage of the blessing we have with the internet allowing collectors access to countless coins they never would have even seen in the preinternet days or they can continue to bury their head in the sand and be left in the past showing how out of touch they are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The simple fact is the next generation of collectors are predominately online buyers. That’s not going to change and will only continue to grow. You can demean them all you want it won’t make any difference to them nor will it stop or even slow the trend.&nbsp; All it does is alienate you from them and as a vocal supporter and ANA volunteer just gives them one more reason not to join. </p><p><br /></p><p>You actually have a big opportunity to try and change some of their minds and make the ANA relevant to them if you would embrace imtemret.&nbsp; That would be a far more productive use of time for your goals then trying to convince people that a massive market doesn’t exist despite countless verifiable measurements being right in front of people’s faces that seem to elude some in this hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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