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Originally Posted by MetsBaseball1973

Just an observation here. So many posts on hobby chat rooms like this site boil down, at their honest core, to bashing items, cards, etc..

In many of these bashing posts, there is a common denominator. The thing being bashed is expensive.

This makes me wonder how many posts are motivated deep down by jealousy, and wanting things one cannot afford.

Only a person knows the truth inside them, unless of course they are in denial. It is easy, psychologically, to see how wishing deep down that someone had something can lead to that someone bashing it.

Or more likely we are wary of the "fish" tales that get told in this hobby. You're a fool if you're not skeptical. How much of Barry Halper's collection was just plain fraudulent? Al Stump was making instant Ty Cobb estate items out of thin air. The Hobby is healthier when questions are asked.