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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7945956, member: 105098&quot;]I think there&#039;s a couple &quot;types&quot; of people that come here.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;one is the ones like you or me, that were in the hobby, and joined the forum to participate learn from other collectors, share their interests, ect. </p><p><br /></p><p>then there is the, &quot;I found this funny looking coin, am I rich?&quot; hit and split poster. </p><p><br /></p><p>then there is the, &quot;I&#039;m going to get rich coin roll hunting&quot; they stick around a bit, but have no interest in learning, just looking for that quick payday that never comes instead. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m all for encouraging new members, however, the majority of new members come and go, and really aren&#039;t collectors, and they are looking for a payday and just a matter of time before they disappear, some immediately after first posting, some in a couple of months of just finding machine doubling or circulation damage. </p><p><br /></p><p>the truth is there&#039;s so much more to coin collecting hobby then just coin roll hunting, or finding an odd coin and checking to see if it has value before pitching it in the coinstar machine, but for some people, that&#039;s where their interest ends, they just aren&#039;t into the hobby, but maybe they can make a couple bucks, and that&#039;s all it is to them. </p><p><br /></p><p>if they could actually learn something, have interest in the hobby, spend some time, people can be successful with their time cherrypicking and turn some profits on the flip, but for that you have to have put the work in and built up knowledge, it&#039;s rare to have the books in front of you when the opportunity appears, and those folks that do show up to coin shows, Cherry Pickers Guide in tow,,,, LOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been here a couple years, new faces appear all the time, a couple actually enjoy the hobby and stick around, it&#039;s rally all that I can ask for, but I don&#039;t think we are building new collectors, either you are one, or you aren&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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