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- From: dick@smith.CHI.IL.US (Dick Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.collecting
- Subject: Re: Does it BUG you? If so, why so?
- Message-ID: <870@smith.CHI.IL.US>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 05:34:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.214730.15523@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <72027@cup.portal.com>
- Reply-To: dick@smith.UUCP (Dick Smith)
- Organization: R. H. E. Smith Corp., Wheeling, IL
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- EZ-as-pi@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Gilson) writes:
- >Card collecting doesn't really annoy
- >me -- except because it makes it hard
- >to find what I want to read in this
- >newsgroup since 95% of the stuff is
- >cards.
-
- Problem solved... the new newsgroup rec.collecting.cards has passed, and
- that should help the card collectors separate from the rest of us.
-
- > It does, however, _puzzle_ me,
- >because I can't see the sense of
- >collecting something that is just
- >printed to sell to collectors. Now I
- >am a wide-ranging collector of paper
- >items ranging from bus transfers to
- >currency, but everything I collect has
- >the distinction that it has a _primary_
- >use that is not for collecting. So
- >I just can't _understand_ card collect-
- >ors.
-
- There's no getting around the fact that once the presence of collectors
- is noted by the producers of WHATEVER, they often find it profitable to
- produce some items specifically for collectors. While I don't know that
- it has happened to bus transfers, yet, there are certainly more designs
- of phone cards, for example, than the phoning public needs. In part,
- this makes collecting more interesting, but it means that the issuers
- sell more items. Stamp collectors have known about this for decades,
- and many shun the more obvious examples (eg. CTO).
-
- But I confess that the only use I personally have had for sports cards
- was to attach them to my bicycle with a clothespin, so as to make a
- whirring noise in the spokes. I've felt for a while that there would be
- a bust in the over-inflated sports card "market", but my sport card
- collecting friends say they don't care, because they truely like the
- stuff. If they aren't lying to themselves, they'll be fine.
-
- --
- Dick Smith dick@smith.chi.il.us
-