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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2476065, member: 76863&quot;]Based upon social studies showing time and time again that you can literally pick almost anything and more than a half of a percent of the total population will be into it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is all antiquated data.&nbsp; It&#039;s like why poll numbers are often wrong only using landline phones for a survey.&nbsp; Numerous collectors are on no mailing lists, don&#039;t regularly attend coin shows (not to mention you wouldn&#039;t even be able to tell who has been counted already without sign up sheets that most collectors would be opposed to) or subscribe to no print publications.&nbsp; 30 years ago that would have been a good measure, not today with the internet. </p><p><br /></p><p>You could find a couple hundred thousand different ebay IDs alone that bought or sold a collectable coin in the last year.&nbsp; The internet has changed everything and if we only use old methods as a count we will be vastly off the real number.&nbsp; If I wanted to I could sit back and build a collection from online purchases and no one would know I ever existed.&nbsp; Plenty of people do exactly that. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bullion buyers you can.&nbsp; A percentage of people that start out as bullion buyers only end up becoming collectors.&nbsp; The doomsday prepper types don&#039;t but a lot do develop an interest in other coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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