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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 738889, member: 13650&quot;]I&#039;ve ran across a lot of coins lately on ebay that are listed at above NGC&#039;s price guide.&nbsp;&nbsp; Usually NGC is high.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve never seen as many as I have lately that are listed above their guide.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; If you look around and pick your spots, there&#039;s some good deals to be had.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Some you can tell just look too cheap.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; As for currency, I spoke on the phone with a well known dealer concerning a certain higher dollar (4 digit price tag) obsolete bank note they have listed.&nbsp; &nbsp; I asked if the price was negotiable.&nbsp; (It should be VERY negotiable.) </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I was somewhat rudely told &quot;there is currently a 12.5% discount on notes at that price level, that that&#039;s as good as it&#039;s going to get and the discounts will be going away at the end of the year.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I said I had noticed it and that&#039;s nice, but I mentioned that I had seen the same note sell on Heritage for between 4 to 600 in the past year and that&#039;s with a BP!! He didn&#039;t care.&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>No budging.&nbsp;&nbsp; And this is on a very uncommon, not commonly collected or known, (a.k.a hard to re-sell) type of bank note</b>.&nbsp; No interest in selling it.&nbsp;&nbsp; He says the market for them has nowhere to go but up and his prices are reasonable.&nbsp;&nbsp; So it looks like I won&#039;t be buying and he won&#039;t be selling.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; The economy has been in the dumps for several years.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not easy selling anything in any hobby right now.&nbsp;&nbsp; Very very tough.&nbsp; &nbsp; The probem for consumers is, stuff can only get so cheap.&nbsp;&nbsp; If people/dealers can only sell stuff at a loss, people just won&#039;t sell.&nbsp;&nbsp; The only people selling will be the ones that are forced to and maybe a good deal could be had.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I think something has to give.&nbsp;&nbsp; Either the economy picks up and gets better or dealers will be forced to drop prices further to move anything as this drags on.&nbsp; Unless they really don&#039;t need to (as my case above) and then they will just be sitting on inventory waiting for a better day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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