Hey, why don't we shake hands and just characterize the patrons bringing in their coins to sell at prices lower than WE might value them, as just being either uninformed, desperate, or just not fussy and prefering cash?
I have bought, at near spot, from sellers of all backgrounds I would just characterize as such and nothing more, and I have been happy to help.
And I might ad, I've been a seller of MCC too, for cash at prices I've been more than happy with, to buyers who have been more than happy with the deal we have made. That's the beauty of Free Trade- each party comes out thinking they have made out better.
Right now, in my neck of the woods, I'm seeing patrons of all backgrounds, and both informed and uninformed, choosing to liquidate at lower prices, as their work hours decline or they need to raise money in the face of economic hardships resulting from oppressive brain-dead cost-adding government regulations and oppressive taxation. Those who are hard working producers will only see their positions improve IF things somehow change back to where government is forced by We The People to reverse course, stop stealing more and more and more of our hard-earned fruit of our hard labor to give it to themselves and those who game the system, and once again allow producers the incentive to risk their efforts and grow the economy. Take the time and call your representatives and demand not only a stop to the increasing madness, but a full reversal in direction, and elimination of oppressive economy strangling regulations and demand an actual roll-back of tax rates.
As "Collectors" we need to realize this and rally everyone to demand we get to keep something, and not have it ever increasingly stolen by decree.
Less keeping = less collecting = lower prices = less savings and less wealth for us all.
