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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2457247, member: 27832"]This is sounding an awful lot like sour grapes. Where's the fraud? If you tell someone "this is worth more than face value", and they say "I don't care", what are you supposed to do? Forcibly drag them to a coin shop? Physically block them from the CoinStar hopper, or the teller's window, or the cash register?</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins get spent. Collectible comics get burned. Classic art gets piled at the curb. Sterling silver gets put out in the "everything's a quarter" box at yard sales. If you at least try to warn people about what they're discarding, I think you're on solid moral and ethical ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>I refuse to berate someone for their good fortune, even if it comes at the expense of someone else's willful ignorance and indifference. (Note the word "willful"; you should at least <i>try</i> to clue them in. I have no reason to doubt the OP's word that he did so.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2457247, member: 27832"]This is sounding an awful lot like sour grapes. Where's the fraud? If you tell someone "this is worth more than face value", and they say "I don't care", what are you supposed to do? Forcibly drag them to a coin shop? Physically block them from the CoinStar hopper, or the teller's window, or the cash register? Coins get spent. Collectible comics get burned. Classic art gets piled at the curb. Sterling silver gets put out in the "everything's a quarter" box at yard sales. If you at least try to warn people about what they're discarding, I think you're on solid moral and ethical ground. I refuse to berate someone for their good fortune, even if it comes at the expense of someone else's willful ignorance and indifference. (Note the word "willful"; you should at least [I]try[/I] to clue them in. I have no reason to doubt the OP's word that he did so.)[/QUOTE]
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