Weird interaction at Central States show today

get anything?

 

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A few things, going to bed, will do a write up tomorrow. Only got one photo of a booth. I feel somewhat imposing taking photos.

 

Buying coins again? Sort of like Lindsay Lohan falling off the wagon, again. I see that future car just slithering out of your grasps.

 

That would have never happened had you carried your reusable mint bag with you to the venue.

 

I might have missed it, but did you get the same grade/year coin from another dealer for $100? Of all the dealers that had this coin something must have drew you to this dealer with this coin. Was it a better coin than the others?

 

It was as simple as it was getting late, i felt it was as good as the others, so why walk the floor again.

 

Or give him your tax resale number/retail ID number. Especially if you are in a state that has sales tax on coins or if he is from a state with sales tax.

 

I believe that. Don't dealers have to get these coins sold to retail customers to make money? If they keep selling back in forth to each other, how do dealers make money?

 

OK. This may seem like an odd question, but is there any other industry where that happens? Or is it just collectibles? This seems to make me think that the "hobby" is controlled by the dealers and that supply and demand are somewhat diminished as pricing controls for the common collector.

 

The diamond industry maybe. Those things are very common, and controlled to make them look rarer then they are

 

bkozak33, I missed CSNS. Where there a lot of paper money dealers?

 

There were a bunch of paper dealers, whats more amazing is how many notes each dealer has. They got stacks and stacks of them. Everything is full retail though, not many bargains to be found.

 

And they say perpetual motion is impossible.

 

I wouldn't buy that from that dealer, fairly ridiculous policy imo. The only reason I can think of for the policy is that dealers will waste less of his time looking at the coins/asking questions? Otherwise I seen no reason to want to give good deals to other dealers (the competition), maybe to make connections.

 

There aren't enough collectors that will take advantage of a good deal?