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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8218119, member: 105098&quot;]I liken it to Pink Floyd. </p><p><br /></p><p>it&#039;s something you can&#039;t really wrap your mind around as a kid, it&#039;s strange, it&#039;s weird, it&#039;s emotional at times, sometime too emotional, it doesn&#039;t always follow the formula, &quot;What is this nonsense, put Maiden back on!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;And as people age and experience things, we kind of grow into it, and can relate to it. It settles on us differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some things we just need to be older or more experienced to understand or appreciate, just beyond our ability until we are ready for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I digress. I think it&#039;s a negative to the hobby, not necessarily for the long term collectors, but to the new blood just starting up, there&#039;s always some person, totally green, wanting to buy coins, but instead of the normal mail order overpricers, they now get hit from all directions.</p><p>I knew going in I wasn&#039;t going to get rich collecting coins, if anything, I&#039;d be spending money that I may never recover all of it back. I think most &quot;fresh to the hobby&quot; think there&#039;s an investment to be had, buy a coin now and in a couple years or when they are 80 it will be their retirement,&nbsp; or a gold rush in their pocket just waiting to be looked at and found. </p><p>the ripoffs and scammers were always there, now there&#039;s just more of them with bigger speakers and their noise falling on many more ears, but they were always there, Plating coins, or selling common coins for big bucks, </p><p>the long term collectors recognize the scams, know the schtick of the scammers, but those new people entering don&#039;t know, maybe get burned, and drop out from a hobby they might have enjoyed otherwise. </p><p><br /></p><p>there will always be a new hustle for them to work, they&#039;ll move on to something else, and won&#039;t have a care for the hobby. but that&#039;s how it goes also. the Hobby will still be here, and the good folks, long term collectors, will inevitably pick up the pieces, and awaken new collectors in the process. it&#039;s not the home shopping channels or the mail order catalogs or online that&#039;s creating collectors. it&#039;s grampa, granma, uncle, aunt, mom or dad that&#039;s creating the collectors.</p><p>&nbsp;I guess we need to get better at discussing the scam and business side of coin collecting to the new entries to the hobby, not just the coins, if for no other reason, but to prepare them for the wolves that come and go, maybe teach them to haggle and cherrypick out of the discussions as well while we are at it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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