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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24771901, member: 26430&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t have ever referred to myself as &quot;a coin dealer,&quot; but maybe I would&#039;ve once qualified as a low-end &quot;vest-pocket dealer.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I make the mistake (double-mistake, as johnmilton notes) of putting my &quot;collection&quot; coins online with outrageous prices alongside my &quot;inventory&quot; coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then one day some buyer from one of the little Persian Gulf kingdoms clicked &quot;buy&quot; on almost my entire inventory. So I pretty much had to sell a couple coins that I really didn&#039;t want to. I still miss one of them (my first or second coin, an Alexander Tetradrachm bought when I was 6-8 years old). And feel guilty for how much the buyer paid for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t mind giving a coin up, though, when someone calls your bluff, you have to hope people don&#039;t think you generally inflate prices. Tom Cederlind I seem to recall was known for sometimes putting &quot;i don&#039;t wanna sell it&quot; prices on certain coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it was a minor glimpse into the terrifying risks that full time dealers must cope with regularly: If that FedEx shipment had been stolen, or told PayPal it was empty (I shouldn&#039;t have accepted such a payment from an unknown buyer by PayPal at all), it far exceeded any insurance I was able to get, and I would&#039;ve taken a hit of like a year&#039;s income.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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