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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3296425, member: 76863"]There are plenty of legitimate reasons for this.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all health. Not everyone is able or comfortable enough to leave their doctors ect. You can be in the hospital and still be engaged and collecting online, I've been there before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second of all and most importantly cost. Plenty of collectors have a small collecting budget. Paying for travel, hotels, rental cars if you want one, food ect. Then the whole taking time off of work or waste vacation time to go to shows because the old guard thinks they should be mid week ect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lets put it this way. If I wanted to buy a 200 dollar coin, I could go to my computer search around and probably find one or wait. Or I could spend anywhere from 40/80 or more (if I took the train) or 300-1k+ flying for most shows. Even driving an hour or two each way will cost me 40-80 in gas. Then if the show wasn't day trip distance there's hotels, food ect. Even if I pay 150 for the coin at the show I have not only spent more overall but also a lot of my time for a fake perceived savings.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a complete fallacy to say if you can buy coins you can travel to do so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3296425, member: 76863"]There are plenty of legitimate reasons for this. First of all health. Not everyone is able or comfortable enough to leave their doctors ect. You can be in the hospital and still be engaged and collecting online, I've been there before. Second of all and most importantly cost. Plenty of collectors have a small collecting budget. Paying for travel, hotels, rental cars if you want one, food ect. Then the whole taking time off of work or waste vacation time to go to shows because the old guard thinks they should be mid week ect. Lets put it this way. If I wanted to buy a 200 dollar coin, I could go to my computer search around and probably find one or wait. Or I could spend anywhere from 40/80 or more (if I took the train) or 300-1k+ flying for most shows. Even driving an hour or two each way will cost me 40-80 in gas. Then if the show wasn't day trip distance there's hotels, food ect. Even if I pay 150 for the coin at the show I have not only spent more overall but also a lot of my time for a fake perceived savings. It's a complete fallacy to say if you can buy coins you can travel to do so.[/QUOTE]
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