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ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
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Why do coin collectors resist change when change is what they collect?

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most people embrace change when it makes sense. Unfortunately, change doesn't always makes sense.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...or 'cents' image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Some idle thoughts….

    Collecting-type hobbies involve controlling the known. Identification and compartmentalization are important aspects of control. You can see that in the behaviors of most coin collectors – the “need” to fill album holes, or complete a series, or divide and subdivide varieties, or assign “names” to favored items. This type of hobby attracts people who value constancy and dislike anything that “rocks the boat.”

    Successful collecting-focused business understand this and design marketing, products and information to encourage common behavior.

    Most collectors enjoy their hobby within more or less normal psychological bounds, and can take amusement at the occasionally confused expressions of acquaintance or snide remarks from a spouse. Occasional short periods (hours) of irrationality might occur, but a few go over the line and begin to mimic psychological dependence common to behavioral “addiction.”

    The impact of "change" can't be clearly assessed until one has been exposed to the change. That is part of why business "change management" is such a difficult and lucrative field.
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    What all of a sudden no one here has an opinion, or are you all watching BB? Go Maryland!
  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    "This type of hobby attracts people who value constancy and dislike anything that “rocks the boat.”


    I bet we are all good at math. In college math was my best subject and economics my worst.

    I dislike change too, especially my undies and socks.
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    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,300 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RWB... brilliant post!image
  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭


    << <i>RWB... brilliant post!image >>



    I agree!


    There are 2 kinds of people. Collectors and non-collectors.
    Collectors will collect anything that suits them at the time. It doesn't matter what they collect, the behavior is much the same.
    My collecting has migrated from: stamps; to rocks; to coins; to lever-action Winchester rifles; to cars; back to coins; to Noritake china; to books; etc etc etc.

    The non-collectors will never truly understand the mentality of collectors.


    If change can be PROVEN to be for the better, then I will begrudgingly agree. Otherwise, change is bad.
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,584 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The non-collectors will never truly understand the mentality of collectors. >>


    I firmly believe this is true.




    This turned into an interesting thread. image
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    I thought it was due to a fear of being short changed.

  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    << The non-collectors will never truly understand the mentality of collectors. >>

    I apologze for my feeble attempt at humor earlier in this thread. But to be serious, are we gatherers or pack rats? Then again we might just like to own stuff no one else has and hold it out in front of ourselves.

    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
  • AngryTurtleAngryTurtle Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    I dislike change too, especially my undies and socks.
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    Ron >>



    I never change my undies or socks either.image
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    <<I apologze for my feeble attempt at humor earlier in this thread.>>

    No need; I change mine once a month whether they need it or not.image

    And of course there is the old joke

    When the 101st found out they were surrounded at Bastogne they were given the good news that a change of uniforms was finally available.

    Smith changed with Miller, Miller changed with .....image
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,584 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    I dislike change too, especially my undies and socks. >>



    I never change my undies or socks either. >>



    My previous post:

    << <i>This turned into an interesting thread. >>



    Then again... imageimage
  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    <<I bet we are all good at math. In college math was my best subject and economics my worst.>>

    The recent grad was visiting his old economics professor. The professor showed his vistor the current final exam. The grad was horrified. "this is the same test you gave us. Don't you realize all the frat houses have copies of these exams and their answers."

    The professor answers "Not too worry, here in Economics, we change the answers every year."
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only thing that remains the same is change itself. (Do not know who to credit that too... just think it is entirely accurate.) Cheers, RickO
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    TTT for all the nay sayers to reflect on.image
  • InternetJunkyInternetJunky Posts: 2,329 ✭


    << <i>Why do coin collectors resist change when change is what they collect? >>



    I nominate this for the "Really Bad Numismatic Pun" award image
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    Thanks Steve, my first award (snif). I am so humbled by this.image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    People will always resent change to what they are comfortable with.
    Even if that change is beneficial to them in the long run. Human nature
    is indeed strange.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    'If you always do what you have always done you will always get what you have always gotten.'

    One of my favorite change quotes...not sure if it applies here but I needed to post something!

    K
    ANA LM
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Why do coin collectors resist change when change is what they collect? >>



    Because most of them are aging, balding, anti-social introverts who live with their mothers...

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    >>>My Collection
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    <<Because most of them are aging, balding, anti-social introverts who live with their mothers...>>

    At least I don't live with my mother.image

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