I can summarize this whole affair in four statements:
1. Awareness goes up, causing commercialization of an otherwise
'user-friendly' hobby
2. Prices go up, shafting the poor guy who got into this because
it was a fun and inexpensive passtime.
3. These guys leave because the hobby is no longer inexpensive.
4. The {vultures|speculators} take over and pick the {carcass|hobby}
clean.
It may be just 'nature' but it is still an ugly sight, and it
pisses me off.
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Received on Sun Mar 21 1999 - 23:47:58 GMT