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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 635779, member: 16948&quot;]Doug, just because you find it &quot;utterly rediculous&quot; doesn&#039;t mean it is in fact ridiculous - maybe it is ridiculous to YOU because you don&#039;t know or feel what that buyer knew or felt when he purchased that coin.&nbsp; You start off above saying that we all &quot;have at one time or another, and usually several times, over-paid for a coin&quot; - I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve &quot;over-paid&quot; for a coin that I really wanted or really made me happy, that fit perfectly into my collection, was very special, etc. (for example, that 1880 off-center die clash I posted yesterday on another thread, I paid quite a bit for that coin and would have paid even more for it because it had all the bells and whistles I look for in a coin for my personal collection - and I&#039;ll bet you would say I &quot;over paid&quot; for it because perhaps it wasn&#039;t that appealing to you - but whose to say I &quot;over paid&quot; for it - certainly not me because it was well worth it to me - and, from the feedback I&#039;ve gotten here and on the CU forum, I&#039;ll bet some of them would have paid even more for it).</p><p><br /></p><p>But let&#039;s go back to your example with the 1954 XF Lincoln, there might have been something unique, special, an error or variety, that the buyer saw in that coin that made it worth it to him/her, and perhaps others, something you didn&#039;t see.&nbsp; Why is that ridiculous?&nbsp; Respectfully, who are you to judge that this person&#039;s purchase was ridiculous?&nbsp; Most likely, he/she wouldn&#039;t have paid that much money for an otherwise pretty worthless coin if he/she didn&#039;t see something in that coin that was WORTH IT to HIM/HER, and perhaps to others.&nbsp; Again, respectfully, <b>that is the point I am/we are trying to make </b>that you don&#039;t seem to grasp.</p><p><br /></p><p>And regarding your being the admin and posting your opinions here, I agree with the others - even though, as you can tell, I feel pretty comfortable posting my opinions, and can sound opinionated in doing so, I try to temper how I say what I say so as not to offend or sound like I am dictating the &quot;word of God.&quot;&nbsp; I too enjoy debating with a challenging debator such as you, and don&#039;t want that to change, but I do think your posts can and have intimidated others into refraining from posting their opinions and thoughts because, <b>the true fact is you ARE the admin here, </b>and you do have those special admin powers to poof threads - whether you actually would or not is not the point.&nbsp; And even if you remove your title, posters know that you are the admin guy, so it would be helpful if you could at least debate and be opinionated in a more thoughtful way so that you don&#039;t sound quite so (and I say this with a smile and mean it in an over-exaggerated way) &quot;Bible thumping.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kind of like having social drinks with the boss - even though you are seeing him/her outside of work on a purely social basis, you still know he/she is the BOSS and will act differently (hold back) than you would if he/she was simply a peer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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