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Michael Marotta adn the American Numismatic Assoc.
On Feb 16, 6:22 pm, Mike Marotta wrote:
I answered. You didnt answer. I asked if you believed what you said. You said to me: What I wrote, what I write, you are free to value as you choose. Thats not an answer to the question I asked. You sound like a politician trying to skip answering a question by answering a different question So Ill ask again. Do you believe what you said. Heres what you said: You said coin collectors in general are liars and bullies and you said you support cheating and cheaters. These are my words, here are your words, brought to you by Google Groups because “Archives are forever”: On June 30, 2001 Michael Marota started a thread that he named "Coin Collectors are Bullies" in the newsgroup humanities.philosophy.objectivism. In the first post he said: "The most successful collectors and dealers I have met are people who display obvious symptoms of low self esteem: slouching for instance. Lying about anything and everything from the weather to the published price of a coin is typical." You can read Michael Marottas entire post he http://groups.google.com/group/human...990e037d4ed640 He said in this post “these are GENERALIZATIONS about a large group of people (numismatists, philatelists) and generalizations fail at the individual level.” Then he said about himself “I am a collector and I have good self esteem and am not a bully.” Im not making this up! Michael Marotta also said he supports cheating. No he said it doesnt matter, cheating is irrelevant if you enter a coin deal with free choice. I guess he means if your forced into a coin deal and are cheated thats bad but if your not forced into a coin deal getting cheated is doesnt matter. Actually I dont know what he means or if he believes this because he doesnt answer, thats why Im asking again. Here are his words: Michael Marotta started a thread right here in rec.collecting.coins on December 10, 2000 and he named it "Dishonest Collectors". Michael Marotta wrote: "Once we accept that a transaction is freely entered into, whether or not someone gets "cheated" is irrelevant." You can read the entire post he http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...901bb967b1f513 When everybody in the coin world was warning evrybody else Michael Marotta was attacking people for saying you shouldnt buy coins in Accugrade slabs and saying how great Accugrade was. He said its founder was noble, no he said he was engaged in “the noblest human endeavor”. Here are Michael Marottas words: Michael Marotta used the handle Mike Echo Mike. He wrote this in rec.collecting.coins on Feb. 3, 2001: "Alan Hager [the Acugrade founder] has built a profitable business by supplying to people something they want at a price they are willing to pay. That is in and of itself the noblest human endeavor." You can read the entire post he http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...f4b2a116dbc345 The same day Michael Marotta attacked Byron Reed for saying people should boycott of Accugrade: "You are NOBODY. You have no publications in the hobby. You work as a press operator for a printing plant in North Dakota. You have no college degree in numismatics. You do not own or operate an industry recognized auction firm or numismatic dealership. If you are a member of the ANA, you have not mentioned it and if you are a member of the PNG or IAPN, I would be astounded. You have never delivered a Numismatic Theater Presentation at an ANA convention. You have never taught an ANA Summer Seminar Class. In short, you are no different than 100,000 coin acquireres who claim that they know more than anyone else in the hobby about their own self-defined area of speciality." \ You can read the entire post he http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...e09a5aa287fa53 Heres another funny thing. In the above post Michael Marotta confused Byron Reed with Brad Reed. Michael Marotta thought he was attacking Brad Reed for saying that people should boycott oAccugrade! Michael Marotta, do you belive what you said? Thats a simple question. You dont answer this so Im starting a top thread. These are good issues to talk about, coin collectors are liars, coni collectors are bullies, cheating is OK. Your a writer for the American Numismatic Assoc. Do they believe this too? Your not the president but your in their magazine. If you were the president would you try to legalize cheating? Do you believe what you said ??? |
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