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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3289764, member: 57463"]See, also, this recent discussion "Your Local Coin Club": <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-local-coin-club.329455/#post-3278622" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-local-coin-club.329455/#post-3278622">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-local-coin-club.329455/#post-3278622</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As noted in this thread, clubs vary and people's expectations and experiences also differ. And they differ over time. Your needs change; the club changes. That's life.</p><p><br /></p><p>The easy answer is that overall, I gain as much from a coin club meeting as I do stopping in here. It is just that we have hundreds of active members here are larger and the meeting runs 24/7. And the medium is that we can all talk at once, which make a live coin club meeting just noise. (See my comments in the other thread. We have used different seating arrangements.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And I have seen the upside and downside in clubs as people (a) help each other and (b) take advantage of each other. I have learned a lot from experts. And just about every local club has someone or more people like that, not just people who know a lot (though they do; and you can learn), but people with national reputations as dealers or authors (or both). </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, appreciate what is involved in organizing and maintaining a club. It is an important and valuable resource in every community. I have been in clubs that were active with the local historical society, and others that donate Red Books to schools. You can get a lot out of being in a club, but you also might find rewards in what you can give.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3289764, member: 57463"]See, also, this recent discussion "Your Local Coin Club": [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-local-coin-club.329455/#post-3278622[/url] As noted in this thread, clubs vary and people's expectations and experiences also differ. And they differ over time. Your needs change; the club changes. That's life. The easy answer is that overall, I gain as much from a coin club meeting as I do stopping in here. It is just that we have hundreds of active members here are larger and the meeting runs 24/7. And the medium is that we can all talk at once, which make a live coin club meeting just noise. (See my comments in the other thread. We have used different seating arrangements.) And I have seen the upside and downside in clubs as people (a) help each other and (b) take advantage of each other. I have learned a lot from experts. And just about every local club has someone or more people like that, not just people who know a lot (though they do; and you can learn), but people with national reputations as dealers or authors (or both). Also, appreciate what is involved in organizing and maintaining a club. It is an important and valuable resource in every community. I have been in clubs that were active with the local historical society, and others that donate Red Books to schools. You can get a lot out of being in a club, but you also might find rewards in what you can give.[/QUOTE]
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