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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3087913, member: 112&quot;]I understand your point, I truly do. But do you understand mine ? Allow me to give you an example.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re at the grocery store and on your way back to your car you walk past a guy with his trunk open and he says to you - Hey buddy, wanna buy a nice Rolex cheap ?</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;ll ask you, would you walk over to that guy and buy a watch ? I&#039;m betting that pretty much 100% of you would answer no to that question. And if I asked you why not you say something like - are you kidding ? I don&#039;t know that guy, never seen him before, have no idea who is and definitely would never trust a stranger. Only a fool would do such things ! And I&#039;m betting that pretty much 100% of you would give me an answer similar to that.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;ll ask you one more question about another scenario. You&#039;re here on the forum and you see new ads posted in the ad sections. You see a coin that catches your eye. So you respond to the member offering it. Now you don&#039;t know this guy, you&#039;ve never met this guy, and you have no idea who he is - to you he is a stranger.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why then would you even think about making an offer to buy a coin from him ? I mean how are the two scenarios any different ? You definitely think anybody who would buy a watch would be a fool - right ? So then what makes you different when you buy a coin from a perfect stranger ? Are you not also a fool ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, the people who buy watches from that guy are fools. But you also have to remember that guy makes his living doing that. And what does that mean ? It means there&#039;s a whole lot of fools out there is what it means. But that thing you don&#039;t think about is that a lot of them buy coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Members of this forum buy coins from perfect strangers on a daily basis - and yes that means almost all of you, and yeah I&#039;ll add the almost in there because there might be a few who do not. So what is a person who buys a coin from a perfect stranger if not a fool ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that makes you indignant, to think that I would dare to call you a fool. I get it, it would me too. And your response to me would be something along the lines of I have protection when I buy coins from people I don&#039;t know, so there is no risk to me. Well, in many cases but not all that&#039;s a false assumption to begin with but I get that too.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s the thing. When you buy a coin from somebody on this forum you have no protection because CT will not become involved in any way - you are 100% on your own. So are you or are you not a fool if you agree to buy, sell, or trade here ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus the reason for my warning. It&#039;s a wake up call folks, designed to get your attention. That warning is the water and you are the horses. But it&#039;s up to you to drink it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>edit - Doug was right when he said I do not collect coins, I don&#039;t, not anymore anyway. But I did, for almost 50 years. My point being there&#039;s not much I don&#039;t understand about collecting coins. I&#039;ve walked in your shoes. In fact I&#039;ve worn out more pairs of those shoes than I can count. So every possible scenario and explanation for what you do and why you do it - I already know. I lived it - just like you do. So yeah, I get it all. But that doesn&#039;t change what I&#039;m telling you.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of that said, I am telling you WHAT I am telling you for one reason and only one reason - because I care and I want to help you. And that&#039;s why I&#039;ve dedicated 16 years of my life to helping to run this forum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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