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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 991517, member: 112"]I agree 100% Michael. However - the majority of the price guides, magazines, various web sites that advertise themselves as price guides - let's say one of them list a coin of a given grade with a value of $1500. But you can go to 2 or 3 different dealers, Teletrade or Heritage, and buy that very same coin in that very same grade for $500. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then just how useful is that price guide ?</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, to me that is the point. For a price guide to even be considered as a useful guide - it at least has to be in the ballpark with the prices it has listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the price guide said the coin was worth $450, or even $600 - that I could accept and that I would call a guide. But when they are so far from reality as to be a joke - then that's all they are, a joke. And in point of fact that's all most of the price guides are - a joke.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 991517, member: 112"]I agree 100% Michael. However - the majority of the price guides, magazines, various web sites that advertise themselves as price guides - let's say one of them list a coin of a given grade with a value of $1500. But you can go to 2 or 3 different dealers, Teletrade or Heritage, and buy that very same coin in that very same grade for $500. Then just how useful is that price guide ? You see, to me that is the point. For a price guide to even be considered as a useful guide - it at least has to be in the ballpark with the prices it has listed. If the price guide said the coin was worth $450, or even $600 - that I could accept and that I would call a guide. But when they are so far from reality as to be a joke - then that's all they are, a joke. And in point of fact that's all most of the price guides are - a joke.[/QUOTE]
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