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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2272241, member: 26302&quot;]Personal experience. I know a man who was wanting to get into coins. He bought a few old silver dollars from a friend of a friend. When I let him know they were all worthless Chinese fakes, he got pretty upset. He didn&#039;t get upset with the seller really, he didn&#039;t get upset with the US government, he even didn&#039;t get upset with the Chinese fakers. He got upset at &quot;this stupid hobby where everyone is just out to steal from everyone else&quot;. He gave up the idea to collect at all, and today he still has not bought another coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many thousands or millions of Americans will it take having similar experiences until our hobby simply collapses like beanie babies due to lack of new collectors? THAT is what you are encouraging by buying fakes, even bad ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not trying to pick on you personally Dave, just letting everyone know the dangers of buying, (and thereby giving money to), fakes, even bad ones. Every intentional purchase of a fake to me is literally damaging our hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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