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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3870216, member: 112&quot;]Yeah, your questions make sense. But you also have to remember that there&#039;s a lot times when a given coin has been in a dealer&#039;s inventory for a while already. So he sells it, even if it&#039;s just to break even or take a small loss, just to get it out of his inventory. One way or another has to make his money work for him and he can&#039;t do that if it&#039;s tied up in coins that aren&#039;t selling fast enough. Think of it as a department store having a sale - even if they take a small loss - they gotta do it so they have the money to spend on more new stuff that they can sell right away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers make their money by fulfilling &quot;want lists&quot; from customers, and they have long want lists ! But the only way they can buy the coins on those want lists is to sell the coins they already have. So one way or another, they&#039;re gonna sell &#039;em. And it&#039;s quite often to a dealer who has that coin on his own want lists. </p><p><br /></p><p>And just because there&#039;s a Bid and Ask on a given coin, don&#039;t ever think that&#039;s always gonna determine the selling price at a show. Bid and Ask applies to average for the grade coins most of the time - and that&#039;s what most coins are - average for the grade. But I can&#039;t tell you how many times I&#039;ve had a dealer walk up to me while I&#039;m walking around the bourse and say - Doug take a look at this coin for me, whaddya think ? What he&#039;s wanting to know is if I think its low, average, or better than the grade. Or even if it has a chance at upgrading. They do this because they know that&#039;s what I do, have always done, and still do. I help people by giving my opinion on coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>One time at a big show, I saw the same coin sold to 5 different dealers. And each one of them made money on the sale. That&#039;s what shows are all about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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