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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 4023613, member: 1886&quot;]As much as I love Ayn Rand I don&#039;t believe &quot;...in collecting there is no such thing as too many stamps; the more one gets the more one wants...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever happened to the popularity of classic commemorative coins? Or for that matter the popularity of stamp collecting which at one point outstripped&nbsp; coin collecting?&nbsp; Does anyone believe the mint&#039;s 10 jillion modern commens helps the classic market? Or the BEP&#039;s commemorative&nbsp; stamp a week&nbsp; helps stamp collecting?</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, too much, too easy and *too fast*&nbsp; is Kool Aid.</p><p>In the 60&#039;s&nbsp; BIE Guild collectors could spend years buying or trading BIEs between each other by snail mail. I bought duplicates from a retired Navy guy who collected them that way for 20 years and he never got bored. Buying by snail moved too slow.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;But for me, between his duplicates and getting on the interweb and ebay, I was ready to puke at the sight of a BIE in not even two years.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp" rel="nofollow">https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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