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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 2316754, member: 29751"]Take away message from this train wreck of a thread (thanks to [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] )...</p><p><br /></p><p>People who are into coins to <b>make money</b> will never think like those of us who are into coins as a <b>hobby for the enjoyment</b> of it. When coins are just widgets to be flipped for profit, everything becomes a trade-off of time spent to dollars made. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, this is no knock to good dealers. There are lots of good ones out there, and we'd be a hurting bunch of collectors without our trusted dealers. But, I could do without the self-declared "expert" dealers who demand their customers or potential customers bow to them and buy their wares, not realizing that without us, they have nothing!</p><p><br /></p><p>I presume this baseball21 guy is the same as the "basebal21" guy who has been posting on <a href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=19813" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=19813" rel="nofollow">Coin Community Forum</a> for quite some time. He's also developed a reputation there as a generally "abrasive" person...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 2316754, member: 29751"]Take away message from this train wreck of a thread (thanks to [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] )... People who are into coins to [B]make money[/B] will never think like those of us who are into coins as a [B]hobby for the enjoyment[/B] of it. When coins are just widgets to be flipped for profit, everything becomes a trade-off of time spent to dollars made. Of course, this is no knock to good dealers. There are lots of good ones out there, and we'd be a hurting bunch of collectors without our trusted dealers. But, I could do without the self-declared "expert" dealers who demand their customers or potential customers bow to them and buy their wares, not realizing that without us, they have nothing! I presume this baseball21 guy is the same as the "basebal21" guy who has been posting on [URL='http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/pop_profile.asp?mode=display&id=19813']Coin Community Forum[/URL] for quite some time. He's also developed a reputation there as a generally "abrasive" person...[/QUOTE]
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