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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1211703, member: 22004&quot;]My apology for bringing up a side issue, en passant.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the original issue:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b>Bring cash with you</b> <b>– </b>many dealers don&#039;t take credit cards, especially for bullion coins</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Yes, but how much cash?&nbsp; $5K, $10K (and what about the 8300 forms with $10K plus???). </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">When I have wanted to buy a big bucks coin, the dealer will sometimes wait for the check to clear and then ship the coin, especially in states with sales taxes on such things.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I dealt with a dealer at the Baltimore show who said that if I did not pay cash, he would have to charge me sales tax.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">So we have issues of accountability--greatly minimized with cash transactions, even when accountability to government and others would be in everyones interest.&nbsp; </span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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