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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3031369, member: 112"]Not so. You see, the only reason they buy the coins to begin with, any coins, is because they ARE in the plastic ! They simply will not buy raw coins the majority of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the clueless collector is not hypothetical, they are quite real and great in number ! The vast majority of the coin market is comprised of plastic buyers - plastic buyers ARE clueless collectors. Granted, there are a great many degrees as to just how clueless they are. Some of them actually think they know what they are doing, but they don't. As the old saying goes they know just to hurt themselves by being involved in things in which they should not be involved ! There are others who actually do know a bit, but yet are still swayed purely by the plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can basically split the entire coin market into 2 groups - the 90% who do not know coins and the 10% who do know coins. The 10% doesn't care what it says on the slab, they go by what they know. The 90% goes by what the slab says, even when they don't even know what the slab is saying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3031369, member: 112"]Not so. You see, the only reason they buy the coins to begin with, any coins, is because they ARE in the plastic ! They simply will not buy raw coins the majority of the time. And the clueless collector is not hypothetical, they are quite real and great in number ! The vast majority of the coin market is comprised of plastic buyers - plastic buyers ARE clueless collectors. Granted, there are a great many degrees as to just how clueless they are. Some of them actually think they know what they are doing, but they don't. As the old saying goes they know just to hurt themselves by being involved in things in which they should not be involved ! There are others who actually do know a bit, but yet are still swayed purely by the plastic. You can basically split the entire coin market into 2 groups - the 90% who do not know coins and the 10% who do know coins. The 10% doesn't care what it says on the slab, they go by what they know. The 90% goes by what the slab says, even when they don't even know what the slab is saying.[/QUOTE]
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