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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2735781, member: 27832"]If we keep begging that question hard enough, sooner or later it's bound to give in. "We need to teach all collectors not to buy problem coins." Why? "Because they'll take a bath when they try to sell them." Why? "Because, as we teach all collectors, problem coins aren't worth buying." (Yeah, I'm intercepting a comment that I'm pretty sure wasn't directed at me...) Sure, I've heard of ethics. It's the thing that prevents me from offering a problem coin as problem-free, or offering a VG coin as VF, or offering an 1881-S Morgan as "KEY DATE RARE COIN", or offering an SGS "MS70" at the price of a PCGS MS70. Do you think someone's being unethical if they offer a VG coin or an 1881-S Morgan at all? (Okay, the SGS 70 was a bad example.) The suggestion was "maybe we shouldn't just tell people to avoid problem coins altogether". Interpreting that suggestion as "I want to be able to dump my problem coins on unsuspecting buyers" is overreaching. And assuming that anyone buying a problem coin is "dumb enough" is, as I said, begging the question.[/QUOTE]