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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2656989, member: 19250&quot;]First of all ...not knocking&nbsp; dealers.....90% of the people&nbsp; that&nbsp; I&nbsp; know in this hobby&nbsp; are dealers!&nbsp; Not only in my home state but other surrounding&nbsp; states.</p><p>Next I&#039;m&nbsp; 63 have been collecting&nbsp; since I was 7 years old! Other than my college&nbsp; days when I wasn&#039;t&nbsp; an active&nbsp; collector&nbsp; I think that I have a good understanding&nbsp; of&nbsp; how this hobby has progressed&nbsp; since the early&nbsp; 60&#039;s.</p><p>My statement&nbsp; of the different&nbsp; between&nbsp; dealers and collectors&nbsp; is 100% correct . As any merchant&nbsp; has a price for their inventory .</p><p>Yes in all the years I&#039;ve&nbsp; been&nbsp; active&nbsp; in this hobby I have been both a collector&nbsp; and a dealer.</p><p>The difference&nbsp; is&nbsp; a collector&nbsp; doesn&#039;t&nbsp; sell his collection&nbsp; a dealer does. I&#039;m&nbsp; sure there are members&nbsp; here that are of my generation&nbsp; who wouldn&#039;t&nbsp; sell any of their collection , some may but, that doesn&#039;t&nbsp; make you a dealer. That makes you a collector&nbsp; who adjust&nbsp; their collection&nbsp; to suit their needs.</p><p>Either&nbsp; by up grading a coin or going in another&nbsp; direction&nbsp; with their&nbsp; collection .</p><p>I also venture&nbsp; to say Most all from my generation&nbsp; could care less if the coin that tweeks&nbsp; their interests&nbsp; is raw, graded by what ever TPG , or has been covered by stupid stickers! They only care about the specimen&nbsp; in hand.</p><p>They will use sound knowledge&nbsp; that they have learned over years of collecting , reading,researching, to decide&nbsp; whether&nbsp; or&nbsp; not&nbsp; to&nbsp; pull the trigger.</p><p>Have we or do we make mistakes . ....yes we are human, but they are OUR mistakes&nbsp; not the advice of a TPG or a sticker.</p><p>The very basis of this thread is mistakes made by the TPG&#039;S&nbsp; as well, as the people with their little stickers.</p><p>I have no issues&nbsp; taking ownership&nbsp; of my mistakes , but it&#039;s&nbsp; about time TPG take ownership&nbsp; of&nbsp; theirs!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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