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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1614607, member: 41665&quot;]Danr-</p><p>I&#039;m not &quot;cherry-picking some odd numbers&quot; : I wrote &quot;$100./mo (or whatever)&quot;&nbsp; Since you have a problem with my obvious guestimate, please state categorically and without equivocation exactly what the average collector spends.&nbsp; And then tell us, what did he spend in 2002, 1992, 1982, etc.&nbsp; Let us see your privileged data. Do you have any? Or are you just denying reality?</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is: the US coin index charts show a price collapse, those high-value coins are held by whom? YES, older collectors.&nbsp; As they die off, their collections WILL get thrown on a collapsing mkt. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is demographic trend colliding head-on with mkt reality - in coins as with homes (in <i>many </i>RE mkts.)&nbsp; Future buyers will need equivalent or higher salaries to afford these overpriced homes/coins. There&#039;s NO EVIDENCE the USA is seeing salaries rise; so (relative) prices must fall farther still.&nbsp; The US markets for most US collectibles are <i>already </i>glutted but nowhere near the bottom. It&#039;s high-time to face that reality.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>eBay is awash in Beanie Babies that cannot sell... and lots of people spent hundred$ on those &quot;investments&quot; too. Apparently, so did the Ohio State Bureau of Workers&#039; Compensation Pension!</p><p><a href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/03/the_beanie_babies_and_other_co.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/03/the_beanie_babies_and_other_co.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/03/the_beanie_babies_and_other_co.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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