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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2541472, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;ve tried to do exactly that for going on 20 years now. But there&#039;s a couple of problems. 1 - most people don&#039;t want to listen, they&#039;d rather believe what they want to believe; and 2 - a small sized audience.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first problem is obvious for its own reasons and can rarely be overcome. And the second is rather similar in that regard because before you can get them to listen what you have to say, you first have to get them to a place where they can at least hear you.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m talking about is coin forums being that place. Other than that what other place is there ? But if you took all the forums together you&#039;d be hard pressed to have an audience of maybe, maybe 20,000 people. And that&#039;s worldwide. </p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, you can say that we have coin shows, and coin clubs, and coin magazines (both paper and on-line) - but it&#039;s still all the same group of people. Most who belong to forums belong to more than 1, and probably several. At one point I think I belonged to 15 of them. And the same people that go to coin shows, and belong to coin clubs, and read the magazines - also belong to the forums. So while they may be hearing the message, it&#039;s the same people hearing the message in all those different places.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m not being negative or saying we should give up, like I said I&#039;ve been doing it for almost 20 years so I&#039;m not about to stop now. The dynamic of the hobby has been the same for as long as I&#039;ve been alive, and probably long before that. And that dynamic is that 95% of coin collectors lose money on their collections. And that&#039;s not just some made up number, that&#039;s the real world. </p><p><br /></p><p>The simple truth is that if you want to make money coin collecting is about as bad of a way of going about doing that as you can get ! And that is the message that people need to hear. Doing just that much is hard. Getting them to believe it once they do hear it, is exponentially harder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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