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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 2821090, member: 29751&quot;]You know as well as I do that this isn&#039;t about giving the photographers and IT folks raises.&nbsp; This is about making the fat cats at the top even richer than they already are.&nbsp; That&#039;s fine, they can do what they&#039;d like to get even richer -- I will just buy fewer things from them and will consign my coins to a different venue.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because the BP is a fixed percentage of sale prices, and because the &quot;big ticket&quot; item coins have continued to go up in sale prices, they make more on those items while doing nothing more than they have in the past.&nbsp; Actually, they do less -- communications are largely electronic, not in print.&nbsp; This change in BP isn&#039;t coming along with them doing something <i>more</i> for the customers or consignors.&nbsp; It&#039;s more similar to a raise in taxes.&nbsp; I&#039;m all for a higher BP if Heritage was doing something more for their customers.&nbsp; Quite contrary though, technology has made their jobs easier, yet over the past 10-15 years, they have continued to raise the &quot;user tax&quot; of their services.&nbsp; Sounds like the definition of <i>greed </i>to me, not savvy business.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>As an example:&nbsp; </b>it makes ZERO sense for an online only auction to incur a 20% BP (with no catalogs, and no live in person auction).&nbsp; I would be completely fine if they raised the BP to 20% for their &quot;signature&quot; auctions where a live auction takes place and catalogs were created (though I think having live auctions and paper catalogs is so 20 years ago).&nbsp; Then, at the same time why not lower the BP for online auctions only to 10%?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This move hurts the smaller collectors when they want to disperse their collections (i.e., those not consigning 6+ figures of coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>But, you already knew that.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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