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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2890453, member: 1892"]Keep in mind, even a small B&M store proprietor has a six-digit investment into their stock....</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you <b>can</b> buy low and sell high. I've done it, a large number of times. All it takes is years to become expert-enough to be able to see bargains others can't (years spent learning to evaluate poor coin imagery), and 40+ hours a week poring over various sales venues to find those coins. I have <b>two</b> full-time jobs, one to pay my bills and the second looking at Ebay listings. For that, I find four or five coins a month which are worth the investment, and in a good month I win three of them. To make - if I flip them - maybe $25-50 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's not very good math, so I don't do it for the purpose of flipping for profit. I do it so I can have decent coins in my collection for relative cheap. I'm in a dry spell, and haven't bought a coin since early September. That's how it works....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2890453, member: 1892"]Keep in mind, even a small B&M store proprietor has a six-digit investment into their stock.... Yes, you [B]can[/B] buy low and sell high. I've done it, a large number of times. All it takes is years to become expert-enough to be able to see bargains others can't (years spent learning to evaluate poor coin imagery), and 40+ hours a week poring over various sales venues to find those coins. I have [B]two[/B] full-time jobs, one to pay my bills and the second looking at Ebay listings. For that, I find four or five coins a month which are worth the investment, and in a good month I win three of them. To make - if I flip them - maybe $25-50 each. It's not very good math, so I don't do it for the purpose of flipping for profit. I do it so I can have decent coins in my collection for relative cheap. I'm in a dry spell, and haven't bought a coin since early September. That's how it works....[/QUOTE]
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