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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1186862, member: 112&quot;]The answer really depends on what your goal is. If you&#039;re looking for hard to find coins then you want to go a day ahead of time, on the dealers only day. It will cost you, but it&#039;s worth it. If you&#039;re looking for deals, go on the second day if it&#039;s a 3 day show and on the first day if it&#039;s a 2 day show. There&#039;s good reasons for all of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably 80-90% of all sales made at a coin show take place between 1 dealer selling to another dealer. That&#039;s because every dealer out there has a huge list that he&#039;s trying to fill for his customers so he&#039;s looking to buy a lot of coins. He also has a lot of coins that he&#039;s had for a while and he wants to get rid of them to raise capital for other buys. And he knows the easiest way to do that is to sell them to other dealers. So he discounts those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, as a collector, knowing this gives you an advantage. You know that most of the coins you want are going to be sold by one dealer to another dealer. And the majority of those sales are going to be made on the dealer only day. And once purchased those coins are not offered at the show but held for the Want List customers. So the only way for you as a collector to have access to those coins is to be there on the Dealer Only day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the reason you don&#039;t want to go to a show on the last day is because by the last day the dealers are leaving. I&#039;ve seen coin shows, big ones even, where by the last day a quarter to a third of the tables are empty by noon. Dealers are wanting to move on. To get back to their shops and sell everything they have bought or get ready for the next show. So by the last day there&#039;s a lot of material that you&#039;ll not even get to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I have always believed that bargain hunting is detrimental to your collection. Of course I guess that depends on your collection, but if you truly want only nice coins then you are not going to find them at bargain prices. You can find them at <u>fair</u> prices, and I don&#039;t mean fair as in average. I mean fair as in equitable, as in you get what you pay for. But if you want the best price then you go on the Dealer Only day. Otherwise that coin you want may have already been sold 2 or 3 times at that show alone. And each time it is sold, the price just went up. You want to be that first sale, not the last one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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