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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2840803, member: 66&quot;]If you aren&#039;t willing to overpay then you don&#039;t REALLY want it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You have a lot to learn about buying modern mint stuff.&nbsp; Yes, you aren&#039;t being ripped off by TV scammers, just mostly being ripped off by the US Mint.&nbsp; Typically you can buy most US Mint stuff in the aftermarket a lot cheaper than you can get it from the Mint.&nbsp; Sure for your kids it will be pure profit, but by buying in the aftermarket you can get them a whole lot more for the same outlay of money</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Because the proof set means one item to inventory, one item to find a buyer for and sell.&nbsp; Breaking it up and selling the parts individually means a lot more paperwork, a lot more time and effort trying to find buyers for all the individual parts and probably a much longer time before it is all gone.&nbsp; All that extra time and effort requires extra compensation.&nbsp; In business it is important to keep the money turning quickly&nbsp; Selling a proof set means one sale individual parts means many sales over a longer period.&nbsp; The money is tied up longer so you need more in income to justify it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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