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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3564483, member: 76086&quot;]The answer is &#039;it depends&#039;.&nbsp; I am a dealer so I can help out.&nbsp; First off, unless a &#039;dealer&#039; is a novice or doesn&#039;t know what they are doing they wont submit coins to be slabbed at a valued less than the cost of the slab+postage. That simply doesn&#039;t make sense, even with bulk discount rates of submission.&nbsp; BUT, it does happen. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes a &#039;dealer&#039; really doesn&#039;t understand what they are doing and will make mistakes.&nbsp; Other times one feels like a coin is a really higher grade, but the slab comes back less so, and they lose.&nbsp; It really is like gambling with US and modern coins and slabs.&nbsp; Nobody understands why grades come back as they do (its really akin to witchcraft).&nbsp; Thus, the whole slab market really is just gambling (one assumes they will get a good grade, and after that they assume they will be able to sell at a premium, neither situations are guaranteed, and thus simple gambles).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Add to this the secondary market.&nbsp; One guy pays for a slab, he bears all the cost.&nbsp; But he may put it on Ebay where it sells for 90% less than what he paid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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