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Posted By: barrysloate

John- according to the guidelines you posted anyone who would be chosen to oversee the industry could not have any affiliation with it due to potential conflict of interest. That unfortunately would include all of us. We each have developed relationships over the years with collectors and dealers, and there might be a bias if your favorite dealer was under suspicion and you were chosen to look into his business more carefully. So you would need a group who have no connection to the hobby whatsoever; thus, they would have to be noncollectors. How are we going to find people from the outside unless they are paid substantial salaries? Collectors may be willing to volunteer their services for the betterment of the industry, but impartial third parties would not.