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        <title>Goodbye Moneygrubbers</title>
        <description> Discussion with various managers and complaints from some mineral dealers have caused us to change the name of the forum from Moneygrubbers to Specimen Valuation. I have often thought that the name along might repel some people from asking for valuation on their specimen simply because of the mildly antiseptic nature of the name. At any rate, we are going to try this for a while and see if it is an improvement and I think it will be..</description>
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            <title>Re: Goodbye Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,271693#msg-271693</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I always thought that title Moneygrubbers would be appropriate for a discussion about the specimens that got sold for a very high prices despite their characteristics or obvious basically pieces that one would never expect to sell that high. General valuation does not fall in that category specially when some people ask you a price of a chunk of Calcite or Quartz.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jonathan Levinger</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Goodbye Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,264294#msg-264294</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Good idea.There may be many genuine reasons why people need to sell-up these days. These are difficult times for many.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>John Mason</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Good by Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,263408#msg-263408</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ HEY ROCK,     Suggest you edit your title.............there is a big difference between &quot;GOOD BY MONEYGRUBBERS&quot; and GOOD BYE MONEYGRUBBERS.     &quot;BUY&quot; the way, I agree with you!!!!        CHEERS..........BOB]]></description>
            <dc:creator>BOB   HARMAN</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Good by Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,263403#msg-263403</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I agree with the change.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Barry Miller</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Good by Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,263377#msg-263377</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ The forum is called Mineral Valuation &amp; certainly sounds nicer to me.<br />
<br />
[<a href="http://www.mindat.org/msgboard-59.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >www.mindat.org</a>]]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Debbie Woolf</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Good by Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,263371#msg-263371</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Good call.<br />
<br />
Moneygrubbers always sounded judgemental in my opinion.<br />
<br />
Specimen Valuation has a more professional ring to it.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>David DeCourcey</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Goodbye Moneygrubbers</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,59,263366,263366#msg-263366</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Discussion with various managers and complaints from some mineral dealers have caused us to change the name of the forum from Moneygrubbers to Specimen Valuation. I have often thought that the name along might repel some people from asking for valuation on their specimen simply because of the mildly antiseptic nature of the name. At any rate, we are going to try this for a while and see if it is an improvement and I think it will be..]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rock Currier</dc:creator>
            <category>Mineral Valuation</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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