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<p>[QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 2047407, member: 58810"]1. The op is not talking to someone he usually deals with. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. Offer, counter ect. I guess my experiences are very different then yours. I've been on both sides of the table in oregon, Washington state and Nevada. The offer counter offer happens frequently enough that I never noticed it was unusual. One of the respected dealers who posts here tried to buy a coin from me.</p><p>There was my offer, her counter, my best offer and her best counter counter offer. It felt like an every day transactions to me. All this happened via text through a second dealer who also posts here. When I buy and sell two or three rounds of negotiations feels pretty normal to me. I've never been to a major show with more then 100 tables so maybe this doesn't happen in the big leagues but it sure does seem to happen a lot exactly as the op posted. I've even used the "drop your cash on the table so the dealer know how serious you are " technique. </p><p><br /></p><p>So maybe in the big boys arena it doesn't go down like the op posted but am my level of play it is an every day occurrence. And the op is buying a small item, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think someone is a stroker when the final difference between buy and sell last offers is 4.3%[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 2047407, member: 58810"]1. The op is not talking to someone he usually deals with. 2. Offer, counter ect. I guess my experiences are very different then yours. I've been on both sides of the table in oregon, Washington state and Nevada. The offer counter offer happens frequently enough that I never noticed it was unusual. One of the respected dealers who posts here tried to buy a coin from me. There was my offer, her counter, my best offer and her best counter counter offer. It felt like an every day transactions to me. All this happened via text through a second dealer who also posts here. When I buy and sell two or three rounds of negotiations feels pretty normal to me. I've never been to a major show with more then 100 tables so maybe this doesn't happen in the big leagues but it sure does seem to happen a lot exactly as the op posted. I've even used the "drop your cash on the table so the dealer know how serious you are " technique. So maybe in the big boys arena it doesn't go down like the op posted but am my level of play it is an every day occurrence. And the op is buying a small item, right? I don't think someone is a stroker when the final difference between buy and sell last offers is 4.3%[/QUOTE]
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