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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3866477, member: 46237&quot;]Nope. And it seems very unlikely that this will ever happen. It&#039;s just not worth the time for every dealer to input every coin they are bringing to the show into a common system for that one show - and then what, update it every time a coin changes hands while they&#039;re trying to do business? I&#039;m sorry to say, but this is just an unrealistic expectation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Yes, this is <i>exactly</i> what you have to do.</b> I do this for the two weeks prior to any big show. I find the list of dealers and I contact/look through online catalogs for about half a dozen dealers that I think are most likely to have the material I am looking for. Whatever I find, I ask them to put on hold for me and bring to the show. Right now I have three dealers holding material for me to look at at Whitman. Without contacting them in advance it is likely that the dealers wouldn&#039;t even necessarily bring this material to the show for me to find, as dealers almost never bring all their inventory with them to a show. So if you&#039;re not looking for something extremely popular (in which case you&#039;ll probably find it anyway), without contacting dealers in advance, you&#039;re putting yourself at a major disadvantage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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