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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 8089449, member: 25547&quot;]But the issue is still the same.&nbsp; People will ask what they want to ask, and the market decides whether their price is acceptable.&nbsp; And on many marketplaces, there&#039;s little or no penalty in having an overpriced object sit there indefinitely.</p><p><br /></p><p>I freely admit that I don&#039;t have the least idea of the market value of most error coins, but that $4-8 coin which sold for $45.00 plus buyer&#039;s fee?&nbsp; The seller may well have lost money on it.&nbsp; ($22 to slab, $25 seller&#039;s premium).</p><p><br /></p><p>So I think you are seeing the result of two market failures.&nbsp; The first is that with errors, no one even pretends there&#039;s a nice consistent price guide.&nbsp; The second is that slabbing low value coins (errors or no) rarely makes sense unless you can market them well enough to obtain a huge markup.&nbsp; (Think Mike Mezack).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I once paid $35 to have a $15 coin not only slabbed, but conserved by NCS.&nbsp; But that&#039;s because the coin had sentimental value to me.&nbsp; Slab or not, it&#039;s still worth $15.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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