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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 1974615, member: 71723&quot;]Or it could be this implied line - I could care less, but I don&#039;t; I don&#039;t care at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the merits - the old guard core of numismatics clearly doesn&#039;t give a rat&#039;s hiney about slab labels; they&#039;ve made it clear enough. Here&#039;s the problem - SOMEBODY clearly does! As Butch and Sundance repeatedly said in the movie, &quot;Who are those guys?&quot; Well, they&#039;re not the 75-year old guy with thinning hair, a pot belly, white patent leather shoes with the faux suede trim, a bolo tie with a silver slide with a big hunk of polished turquoise in it, and a lifetime subscription to Arizona Highways (paints a picture, doesn&#039;t it?), THAT&#039;S for sure!</p><p><br /></p><p>And the guys selling these slabs aren&#039;t the guys schlepping an aging mini-van that smells like leaking antifreeze and filled with WalMart plastic tubs full of 2x2 file boxes from local show to local show every weekend, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, these guys are the ones in the $250 brand name golf shirt and $500 Allen Edmonds shoes sitting in the airline executive club lounge with a scotch on the rocks, sitting there almost yelling into his wireless Bluetooth headset, &quot;No Becky, we&#039;re not in the&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">Edited</span> coin business, we&#039;re in the MONEY MAKING business!&quot; And then when he finally looks up and sees you looking at him, he acts like you were eavesdropping on him, despite the fact he missed that 15 people got up disgustedly and moved to get away from his boorishly conducted phone yell.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s worse is that he has 40 Congressmen on speed dial. Ah yes, may God bless them - &quot;job creating&quot; entrepreneurs all - the smarmy bastards.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Ew.</p><p>Seriously?</p><p>That is SO gross.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As much as it pains me to say it, the passing of generations seems to be leading us to a place where they ARE numismatics. We either fight these bastards or we go quietly into the night. Stop asking &quot;Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?&quot; Fight the corporatization of the coin hobby. Vote with your dollars. You have oily rags to make torches and pitchforks in your utility shed, right? What would our ancestors have done? /snicker</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I&#039;m concerned, anyone who has EVER run an ad using the description &quot;numismatic investment counselor&quot; is an evil <span style="color: #ff0000">Edited:language read rules </span>bloodsucking leech, whether he uses a handle like Coinexpert or not![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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