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honus3415Greed is a motive.
Whether it is "ownership" or the reason we "seek ownership", greed is the motive in 99.99% of ALL collecting.
These items have NO intrinsic value to physical human existence, only the artifical monetary value our GREED has defined for them. These items are like "BEADS" on a "NECKLACE". Each card/item is a material possession and with each acquisition our "necklace" becomes just a little bit more impressive to others. Thus providing us with some degree of artifical satisfaction.
Sure an argument can be made from the educational/historical aspect, but this looses it's foundation once private ownership is attached to the "bead".
It is human nature, from the time we are children to have "MINE". And until we rise to a higher level of existence, GREED will continue to motivate nearly every transaction to some degree.
I don't see it as a question of who's greedy - the buyer or the seller. But more as who's greediest and ends up with another bead for their necklace.