Any online shops with "sales" worth it?

Thanks for the kind words...

 

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How is getting gold and silver below spot bad for me?

 

Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

 

Now not all be shows are like that. I went to my first coins show in Dalton, GA about a year ago (been to one other since), there were probably 300 tables and I only had about $300 to spend which is chump change at a coin show. Still about 95% of the dealers treated my money the same as the big spenders at the show. They answered my questions, showed me something if I asked to see it even if they knew I didn't have money to spend on it. The biggest problem from the other 5% bad that I saw to be honest is they don't treat their employee well, if I saw them doing so I just walked, some didn't answer questions when I asked, but that could have been due to noise and me not speaking up and a few won't talk to you if they thought you weren't going to spend much but that number is very small. I think the biggest problem with large shows is not enough time too see every thing, not enough money, but you will learn a lot if you take your time and observe. I'd suggest at a big show too take more than one day to view as much as possible. A few last suggestions and this holds true even with small shows. When you go to a coin show have a check list so you know what you want, you don't waste the dealer's time and you don't spend a lot on stuff that you don't want or need, bring a pen or pencil because you will want something check off your list with or take down numbers from other collector or dealers who might help you out down the road or too make notes, also don't be afraid to ask for deals these guys are competing with other dealers and they will come down off almost anything because most of their stuff they are trying too unload to buy new inventory and last (mostly true at big shows) keep your money in a good hiding place and have some wheres to store the coins you bought in like a small case for video games, because when you keep everything in your hands a lot of dealers start asking is that from their inventory. Well I hope this long rant helps you out some down the road and I hope you enjoy the hobby for many years.

 

I was also thinking about something this morning. I noticed a lot of people who brought their laptops to the shows. Which isn't a bad thing saying you can download many resource books to your laptop for quit reference. I've never taken my laptop to a show, but I do have several books that came with disk loaded on my laptop and a thumb drive. I'm sure you could also use a kindle in this way as well by downloading e-books. I wonder if you can load e-books to a laptop? What do you guys think?

 

Sure, you can put ebooks on a laptop. I don't take mine to shows -- it's quite large and kind of heavy, and not at all convenient to use while standing. I used to take an iPad, but these days I just take my phone.

 

Most of the guys using the laptops I saw were allowed to set at the tables. I'm sure a kindle or Ipad would be more convenient. Although I don't know if you would want to load world catalogs on either. Also I wasn't sure about ebooks on a laptop, I've never tried it. Thanks for your help.

 

I would use a tablet rather than a phone or laptop.

 

To each his own.

 

I'm kind of Surprised (well again I'm not to due to the numismatic worlds lack of wanting to catch up with the rest of world) that Whiteman or Krause haven't created their own little hand device like a Ipad or tablet. Something you down load their books to, take pictures, make notes, wifi and you take pictures on. They would sell a ton of these and they would be very convenient. I know you can already do this on Ipad or a tablet, but they are not collector friendly and the cameras suck when it comes to coins. I could think of many possibilities for a device like this in the future. Maybe you could one day use them grade to or even authenticate a raw coin.