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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2173105, member: 27832&quot;]Huh. I&#039;m not really sure how to respond to that.</p><p><br /></p><p>In one sense, it makes sense to say you&#039;re a collector only if you <i>collect</i>, and nothing else. I know a number of people here say they only buy, and never sell. I have the utmost respect for that approach.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time, I don&#039;t think even the hardest-core &quot;collectors&quot; would fault someone who &quot;trades up&quot;, swapping one or more lower-grade coins for a better example to improve their &quot;collection&quot;. Of course, many here advise collectors to buy the coin they want at the beginning, because it will cost them more to upgrade later -- but what happens when, as you learn more, you recognize problems in the coins you bought as a novice?</p><p><br /></p><p>What about &quot;cherry-pickers&quot;, though? People who find a coin that&#039;s selling below its actual value, by virtue of their superior knowledge? Are these expert bargain-hunters &quot;moonlighting as a part time dealer&quot; if they occasionally sell the pieces they&#039;ve picked? If so, so what?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you admit the legitimacy of cherry-picking, and of occasionally selling cherry-picked examples for a profit -- well, from there, it seems to me a very gradual and soap-covered slope to speculating on an item that <i>probably will be</i> more valuable than its current price, and selling (&quot;flipping&quot;) it if you guessed correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>TL;DR -- we seem to have very different opinions on this issue, and yours caught me by surprise here. That certainly doesn&#039;t make you wrong or me right, but it also, at least so far, isn&#039;t shaking my own self-image too much. I&#039;ll be following the discussion with great interest, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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