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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1077187, member: 66&quot;]Whoa hold on there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One, when they were initially to go on sale back on Dec 6th the distributors were selling them for $1500 a set (What do you expect after the mint suddenly cut the mintage by 2/3rds from 100K to 33K.&nbsp; These were obviously going to be a high demand low availability item and the &quot;value&quot; was going to be well over the metal value.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Two, There were a lot of complaints and the mint canceled the distributors orders and then made them agree to charge no more than a 10% mark up.&nbsp; So the distributors aren&#039;t charging more than about $880.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Three, The $3700 to $5200 prices that are now being asked for these sets is NOT coming from the initial distributors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone is calling the distributors greedy when they are having to sell the sets for an $80 profit to people who are than going to immediately flip them for a $3000 profit.&nbsp; The big secondary retailers like the TV people got their supply by paying a large number of people to buy them for $880 from the distributors, or in some case from sets bought wholesale by their suppliers from other collectors flipping them for a profit after buying them from the distributors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The distributors are getting a bad and unjustified rap out of this deal. They are about the only ones who AREN&#039;T being allowed to be greedy.&nbsp; (Two of the distributors felt the deal from the mint was bad enough that they declined to participate.&nbsp; For awhile four of them were passing on the deal but two of them changed their mind at the last minute.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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