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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2332735, member: 19463&quot;]I see another difference.&nbsp; I once felt a sense of loyalty to dealers who sent me their lists and tried to fill mine.&nbsp; I only got lists from about ten dealers and bought from at most eight of them a year (a few were lists from people who bought my name from someone and had nothing worthwhile).&nbsp; Last year I bought at least one coin from 25 dealers and more than ten from only a few of them.&nbsp; Some were people I&nbsp; may never see/hear from again.&nbsp; In the old days I never would have seen their coins since they never would have sent me a list or known I existed even if they had what I was seeking.&nbsp; The Internet changed all that.&nbsp; It is like getting a list from every dealer and having the option of not even opening the envelope from the ones I know won&#039;t be productive. I used to live for the lists of a few hundred coins that arrived every week; now I ignore a few thousand coins offered every day simply because I can&#039;t keep up.&nbsp; These are not the circumstances that make for close relationships with a core of dealers.&nbsp; When I go to a show, there are two or three dealers that I know I will visit and others only if I see something displayed on their table or if I have time to spend (or is it money left???).&nbsp; The shows today are a lot more like the old days than the Internet is to the old paper lists.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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