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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 4806062, member: 90666&quot;]Coin dealers can be personal friends whom you also do business with. I&#039;m friends (not just friendly) with a bunch of them. But a coin is a high value item so one can&#039;t really expect special &quot;friend&#039;s price&quot; deals: reducing a coin&#039;s price by a big chunk is not remotely equivalent to buying someone a drink. What does happen is I sometimes get to see coins early when a friendly dealer asks my opinion (and then I buy, at the market rate), or a dealer may be willing to flip a just bought coin (from an auction!) at a more modest premium rather than wait months at a higher price, or accept an offer for old stock that would anyways be reduced eventually. </p><p><br /></p><p>Point is, dealers are part of our community and establishing steady relationships with dealers you trust and buy from can reap rewards in terms of access to coins or to special offers. They are not like plumbers or guttering installers where you&#039;ve no long term relationship. They are not the Opposition. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I started this crazy thread I&#039;d no idea where it would go, but after reading its flow, I would encourage more collectors, indeed everyone here, to build lasting relationships with dealers who can access the sorts of coins you want. And please allow them their markups, which pay for their food and rent, because without the selling side of the business, there&#039;s no collecting at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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