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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Restitutor, post: 4799018, member: 112621&quot;]I frankly don’t understand why this topic is becoming so testy. I’m still relatively new to this forum but are you a dealer?</p><p><br /></p><p>My entire point and belief is very simple: I want coins in the hands of people who enjoy them, not those looking to profit off them. In an auction setting, if 99.99% of coins went to a dealer, versus 99.99% of coins going to a collector, that would be disappointing to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think we have a different definition of a dealer. To me, a dealer is someone who purchases a coin in an auction or from another dealer, with the <u><b>sole intent</b></u> of reselling it at a higher price. It is a business transaction for them, plain a simple. If I hire someone to represent me at an auction house, that is not a dealer, that is a proxy for a collector. If I subsequently lose all my money because I spent it on Chipotle and can’t afford the coin, that person subsequently selling the coin is <b>not</b> the same thing, and I would of course have no issue with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a little surprised at how few end consumers on this forum are not at least in philosophical agreement on this topic, as at the end of the day, it would bring about lower prices for collectors/hobbyists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit) I want to provide an example for another hobby of mine. Say LEGO releases a new set, and 1 reseller buys ALL the available sets and then puts them on eBay at a huge mark up. Are you saying you have no issue with that? As each ancient coin is unique, this is essentially the situation I am referring to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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