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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 627524, member: 112"]No I'm not. Yes there are exceptions to everything. And there are most definitely plenty of coin dealers out there who could not tell a premium coin for the grade from a bottom of the barrel coin for the grade. There are far more collectors with the same problem. But I was speaking about what I would consider as a knowledgeable seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you are making assumptions that are not necessarily true, just because a dealer is selling a coin with a CAC sticker on it, that does not mean that he was the one who submitted the coin to CAC and paid their fees. Same thing is true of any slabbed coin. I for example have owned thousands of slabbed of slabbed coins, but never once have I paid even 1 cent to any TPG. No reason to, it is way too easy to buy a coin already slabbed. Same thing is true about CAC stickered coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, somebody, at some point paid the fees to the TPG and to CAC. But you are too knowledgeable to even pretend that you think that the costs for these things is just added on top of the price. Yeah they are part of the whole equation, but grading fees are a very, very minor consideration in the scheme of things when a dealer is figuring out how much to ask for any given coin. Most of the time they are not even considered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 627524, member: 112"]No I'm not. Yes there are exceptions to everything. And there are most definitely plenty of coin dealers out there who could not tell a premium coin for the grade from a bottom of the barrel coin for the grade. There are far more collectors with the same problem. But I was speaking about what I would consider as a knowledgeable seller. And you are making assumptions that are not necessarily true, just because a dealer is selling a coin with a CAC sticker on it, that does not mean that he was the one who submitted the coin to CAC and paid their fees. Same thing is true of any slabbed coin. I for example have owned thousands of slabbed of slabbed coins, but never once have I paid even 1 cent to any TPG. No reason to, it is way too easy to buy a coin already slabbed. Same thing is true about CAC stickered coins. Yeah, somebody, at some point paid the fees to the TPG and to CAC. But you are too knowledgeable to even pretend that you think that the costs for these things is just added on top of the price. Yeah they are part of the whole equation, but grading fees are a very, very minor consideration in the scheme of things when a dealer is figuring out how much to ask for any given coin. Most of the time they are not even considered.[/QUOTE]
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