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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1938492, member: 19463&quot;]Wholesale means buying a group as a large lot.&nbsp; If you sell your 1000 coin collection to a dealer for $25,000, that is wholesale at $25 a coin average.&nbsp; Very rarely we see a collection sold as a group by a dealer.&nbsp; More often groups are things that someone did not figure were worth the effort to sell individually.&nbsp; A bag that contains $25 worth of coins is not wholesale.&nbsp; It may not have over one coin.&nbsp; One of our members has had luck buying so called large lots at the end of major auctions but I still believe that beginners would be better served buying coins they selected for being of some appeal to them rather than random groups.&nbsp; The main reason to buy uncleaned &#039;bag&#039; lots is to have the fun of cleaning and identifying them.&nbsp; It is not the way to form a collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>A general question:&nbsp; How many would be willing to send a dealer (preferably someone you trust and have dealt with before) an amount of money (lets say $500) if he agreed to send you coins totaling $1000 that he had been unable to sell?&nbsp;&nbsp; How about $1000 total of coins randomly selected from his stock?&nbsp; I suspect those who would be interested in such a deal might have resale in mind but most of us (collectors) want to pick and choose (or do we?).&nbsp; If not half price, what discount would it take to interest you?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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