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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kristine Garrant, post: 24568135, member: 124772&quot;]All right so let&#039;s just get this out on the table because I, myself, and sick to death of the attitude that I get from the people who&#039;ve been in this industry for&nbsp; decades. not everyone, but you know who I&#039;m talking about.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am out there reading, reading, reading, reading.&nbsp; I&#039;m researching. I have a dozen or more websites bookmarked on my computer. I bought some guy from on here is coin grading book I bought the Mega Red book I have books galore that I have ordered.&nbsp; All these that I am accessing on a daily basis.&nbsp; But there&#039;s still that doubt of is it really what it looks like?&nbsp;&nbsp; or is it something??&nbsp; or am I missing something ?? or can I learn about something that I&#039;m not that familiar with?? or something new??&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why there are forums, I thought, like coin talk to come to to seek a more expert opinion.&nbsp; </p><p>But the attitude,&nbsp; the sarcasm and being the butt of jokes that us newbies get from the established people is ridiculous.&nbsp; Now,&nbsp; I do understand that there are newbies who don&#039;t take the time to research and to try and learn on their own before they come with a stupid question.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do understand that.&nbsp; But I&#039;m going to tell you guys something right freaking now.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got a copy of newsmatic news in the mail the other day and guess what&#039;s on the front page? Oh shield nickel error discovered!&nbsp; The coin is from 1867.&nbsp; 1867!&nbsp; Do you know that means? This coin has been out there How long before someone found it? So what&#039;s the possibility that somebody else can find another coin that hasn&#039;t been discovered? Oh sure,&nbsp; I understand it&#039;s slim but it can be done!&nbsp;&nbsp; And I do understand that what&#039;s the chance of getting something in circulation? Oh,&nbsp; it can be slim but it&#039;s still done!!&nbsp;&nbsp; or people would not look. I understand that the odds are astronomical but that doesn&#039;t mean that people should be blown off,&nbsp; joked about or have to face sarcasm when they come to this site.&nbsp; And it doesn&#039;t mean you should be, --oh well,&nbsp; heaven forbid if a newbie finds it before one of us, oh God! </p><p><br /></p><p>Let me give you a scenario. Constantly telling me, &quot; oh no I couldn&#039;t have found this. oh no (If it&#039;s a undiscovered error) that&#039;s not going to happen.&nbsp; I&#039;m not going to find it.&nbsp; Talking to a person who works at a coin grading company right? He said he has a jar of pennies.&nbsp; some of them are from their fathers collection.&nbsp; I said, &quot; oh well you should let me buy them.&nbsp; so I can go through them.&nbsp; You&#039;re never going to have the time to go through them.&quot;&nbsp; And he goes &quot;&nbsp; oh no, no!&nbsp; I can&#039;t do that!&nbsp; there might be something in there!&quot;&nbsp; But yet every time I come to him with something he sits there and tells me, &quot;&nbsp; oh it&#039;s astronomical,&nbsp; oh you can&#039;t find anything,&nbsp; oh you&#039;re never going to find anything.&quot; </p><p>But for some reason you can find something?&nbsp; Is that what I&#039;m getting here? If it&#039;s so astronomical then why do you keep that jar of coins to go through little by little as the time goes by? Why do you think that there might be something in there for you?? but I wouldn&#039;t be able to find something in my coins? Is it because of my lack of experience??&nbsp; Because the odds are so astronomical?&nbsp; No,&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that&#039;s what he was getting at.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s because he doesn&#039;t want to see a newbie come a long and find anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>The attitude that some of you exude makes it really disheartening to the people who are trying to learn this field and and who are interested in coins. You should be happy that there are other people younger generations who want to carry on the work that y&#039;all done.&nbsp;&nbsp; who are looking towards y&#039;all up to you as mentors,&nbsp; as experts who we come to for help.&nbsp;&nbsp; You should be happy about that.&nbsp; Now,&nbsp; I understand that if it&#039;s someone coming who hasn&#039;t done the research and doesn&#039;t know what they&#039;re talking about and they ask a stupid question-- cuz they&#039;re too lazy to try and find out on their own-- I understand that.&nbsp;&nbsp; but the majority of us are not like that...</p><p><br /></p><p>And if there wasn&#039;t a chance in hell then why do so many people do it? why do you do it? Please take this into account the next time you go to answer someone&#039;s question.&nbsp;&nbsp; And if all you can do is be sarcastic or make a joke or be nasty then just pass up that thread and go to the next please.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Because it&#039;s really disheartening to the point that I almost want to just throw up my hands and say &quot;why even bother?&quot; I don&#039;t understand why we can&#039;t be taken seriously. I don&#039;t understand because we don&#039;t have some half a million dollar collection in our closet that we can&#039;t be considered like the one who does.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t understand why so many of y&#039;all look down on us .. to the point where you got to be mean and nasty and sarcastic and make jokes. You ever thought it was fun getting picked on?</p><p><br /></p><p>And it is possible to find stuff in circulation I have to be optimistic about that. And it is possible to find a new discovery I have to be optimistic about that. Cuz if not then what am I wasting my time on all this for ??&nbsp; learning and finding and researching and searching??&nbsp; It would be futile right?&nbsp; </p><p>Isn&#039;t that the excitement of the hunt ??the possibilities? So quit throwing up all the walls please. And can you be a little more understanding of us newbies? The ones who are really trying?</p><p><br /></p><p>I thank you for your time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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