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Posted By: CoreyRS.hanus

Jeff,

With all due respect, I think it takes more than the spending of money to characterize a person as a collector. IMO what motivates a person is the key determinant of how to characterize him/her. The investing/speculating world is rife with examples of people who buy heavily in a particular market not because of any intrinsic interest in what they're buying but rather for how much it will appreciate.

I'm not saying a person cannot be a collector and participate on the registry. But I do take issue with the view that the creation of the registry had anything to do with the growth of the number of collectors. And I do not regard a person who would not be in this hobby but for the registry as a collector.