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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3234544, member: 71723"]And yet now you do and it STILL doesn’t matter. Yes, I have come to understand how fundamentally at odds, culturally, the show-attending segment is from the Internet segment of this field. News for you - EACH holds the other in EXTREMELY low regard; it is NOT a one-way opinion. This year’s Farran Zerbe Award winner, the perennial Show Chairman of Florida United Numismatists, took a couple of vicious shots at Internet numismatics during her speech. They got a standing ovation. The disdain is bidirectional, Lehigh.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am 100% in the “live person to person” camp. Too many bad experiences, some going back >25 years ago, for me to have any trust in the online world. Are there good sellers? There MUST be. Problem is the "chaff" overwhelms the "grain", in my experience, and makes the effort not worth it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3234544, member: 71723"]And yet now you do and it STILL doesn’t matter. Yes, I have come to understand how fundamentally at odds, culturally, the show-attending segment is from the Internet segment of this field. News for you - EACH holds the other in EXTREMELY low regard; it is NOT a one-way opinion. This year’s Farran Zerbe Award winner, the perennial Show Chairman of Florida United Numismatists, took a couple of vicious shots at Internet numismatics during her speech. They got a standing ovation. The disdain is bidirectional, Lehigh. I am 100% in the “live person to person” camp. Too many bad experiences, some going back >25 years ago, for me to have any trust in the online world. Are there good sellers? There MUST be. Problem is the "chaff" overwhelms the "grain", in my experience, and makes the effort not worth it.[/QUOTE]
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