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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2407333, member: 46237&quot;]In person, sure, as long as you also don&#039;t care about alienating buyers who are only comfortable buying slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are plenty of collectors out there with money to spend who have not yet obtained the knowledge to feel comfortable buying a particular series raw. Even knowledgeable buyers may rightly look for coins that are already slabbed, say for a series that is frequently faked, or where a coin may otherwise be questionable.</p><p><br /></p><p>While anyone has the right to buy coins to crack them out, it&#039;s not a defensible position from a financial perspective as it weakens the liquidity (and often the realized value) of the coins. You can&#039;t hold on to the coins forever. Eventually, you or someone you know will have to sell your coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is 2016. So much of coin trading volume occurs online. When you can&#039;t inspect a coin in hand before you buy it, you had better provide incredible pictures or a certification or else be prepared to deal with low bids and returns.</p><p><br /></p><p>Out of the coins I buy, something close to 90% are from online transactions from eBay or various auction houses, and the rest at shows. Of those, 75% are raw. Now many of those are raw and aren&#039;t worth slabbing, but often I&#039;ll pick up a coin on the cheap and it will be a 66+ worth many times what I paid and I just stare at it and shake my head. Even when the seller lists the coin as a choice gem, who believes them? If the coin is worth more slabbed than the value of the raw coin + the grading fees, send it in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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