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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1881517, member: 19463"]This is a problem for which I see no solution. I bought one coin in the last Pecunem sale for $83 hammer price which is $113 after you add buyers fee and $20 postage. If I had won two or three coins, the postage would have not been more but I didn't. Yesterday I won $70 worth of coins on eBay all from the same seller who charged me $2.25 postage for all three. Buying from someone in the same country has advantages. When you buy high end Greek silver, ancillary costs like postage (or wining and dining your dealer) pale in comparison to the amount spent on the coin. When you buy the stuff I buy, the post office can make more than the seller and the dealer doesn't even eat off the Dollar Menu. </p><p><br /></p><p>We are still left with the question of whether a 1937 book reprinted in the 80's is worth what it costs to mail. I have a stack of books that are not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1881517, member: 19463"]This is a problem for which I see no solution. I bought one coin in the last Pecunem sale for $83 hammer price which is $113 after you add buyers fee and $20 postage. If I had won two or three coins, the postage would have not been more but I didn't. Yesterday I won $70 worth of coins on eBay all from the same seller who charged me $2.25 postage for all three. Buying from someone in the same country has advantages. When you buy high end Greek silver, ancillary costs like postage (or wining and dining your dealer) pale in comparison to the amount spent on the coin. When you buy the stuff I buy, the post office can make more than the seller and the dealer doesn't even eat off the Dollar Menu. We are still left with the question of whether a 1937 book reprinted in the 80's is worth what it costs to mail. I have a stack of books that are not.[/QUOTE]
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