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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1261870, member: 5233&quot;]And that is your choice...but I don&#039;t think there is anything wrong with anyone else doing it.&nbsp; Plus, the examples selling for $150 are not sellers &quot;tugging at your heart strings&quot; but sellers who are selling at the price that is competitive in the market.&nbsp; It&#039;s the price knowledgeable collectors are willing to pay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The people who are &quot;tugging at heartstrings&quot; are the people who sent the email ad that sparked the original thread (that in-turn sparked this one).&nbsp; That ad from the &quot;New York Mint&quot; was sent out only 2 weeks before the 10th anniversary of the attacks actually began with &quot;On the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, more than $200 million in gold and silver was locked in the underground vaults of the COMEX Banking System — far below the gleaming Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.&quot;&nbsp; This continued on for several paragraphs until finally comparing the events to Pearl Harbor.&nbsp; Then...that coin could be yours for $495.&nbsp; That is at minimum 2x the current fair market price for the coin.&nbsp; IMHO, these people are &quot;tugging at heartstrings&quot; and trying to make a profit off the tragedy.&nbsp; They are targeting not coin collectors who know what the going value is for these coins...but they are targeting the unknowledgeable populous who they hope to swindle using emotion.&nbsp; Trust me, dealers are making a profit on these coins selling them at the accepted market value...and there is nothing wrong with that in my eyes.&nbsp; However, the NY Mint is taking advantage of a tragedy and IMHO there is a difference.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s only a difference to me...but that is where I draw the line.&nbsp; Here is a link to that ad (which was originally posted in the other thread):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.newyorkmint.com/itemd.asp?itemNo=225941&amp;ad=NY918P2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newyorkmint.com/itemd.asp?itemNo=225941&amp;ad=NY918P2" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorkmint.com/itemd.asp?itemNo=225941&amp;ad=NY918P2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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