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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;easj3699, post: 1654267, member: 40095&quot;]After reading everything everybody has posted i decided to put my&nbsp; story.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have always been interested in coins ever since i was young&nbsp; but never truly dived into into it.&nbsp;&nbsp; About 6 years ago (i am currently&nbsp; 30) my father bought a collection of stuff off of one of his friends&nbsp; sons.&nbsp; &nbsp; It had hundreds of foreign coins, lots of silver coins, and a&nbsp; 10 oz silvertowne bar.&nbsp;&nbsp; He bought this collection for $200.&nbsp;&nbsp; After&nbsp; this purchase and me showing him what it was going for on ebay, he&nbsp; decided to start buying stuff from local stores and selling it on&nbsp; ebay.&nbsp;&nbsp; This went on for over a year, perhaps even two.&nbsp;&nbsp; During this&nbsp; time i really started getting into coins.&nbsp; I read every research book i&nbsp; could buy or borrow,&nbsp;&nbsp; my local coin stores were always teaching me, it&nbsp; was a great experience.&nbsp;&nbsp; After that year or two my father and i decided&nbsp; to start setting up at a local flea market.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know most people think&nbsp; any coin/bullion dealer at a flea market is a rip off,&nbsp;&nbsp; but our goal&nbsp; was to make a million dollars off of a million deals.&nbsp; I do know we went&nbsp; into being dealers before we should have,&nbsp;&nbsp; but at the same time i&nbsp; learned a lot more being on that side of the table then the customer&nbsp; side.&nbsp;&nbsp; We started learning what sells and what doesn&#039;t, what made more&nbsp; profit, learning counterfeits from originals.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was probably the best&nbsp; learning experience i could ever have asked for.&nbsp;&nbsp; One person here said&nbsp; starting money with $100,000,&nbsp;&nbsp; and with $1,000,000.&nbsp;&nbsp; We started out&nbsp; with maybe $1500/2000 worth of stuff to sell.&nbsp;&nbsp; We met people, made&nbsp; relationships, had regular customers, and made a little money.&nbsp;&nbsp; we set&nbsp; up at that flea market every week for a couple of years and then I ended&nbsp; up moving to another state.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ironically enough the same month i moved&nbsp; my father and his friend rented out a store front where they could put a&nbsp; pool table in so they had a place to play.&nbsp; &nbsp; It is nothing fancy, rent&nbsp; is cheap, and it was what they wanted.&nbsp; &nbsp; After a couple of months my&nbsp; father decided to make it into a coin/bullion shop so he wouldn&#039;t have&nbsp; to go to the flea market anymore.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; He has put a few thousand dollars&nbsp; into safes and security features for what is now his shop, but he&nbsp; started it with less the ten grand.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes there are times like this past&nbsp; 2 weeks with the prices dropping he has to sell some stuff at a loss&nbsp; instead of putting it in the safe like most dealers, but he is putting&nbsp; money back in his pocket to buy metals at a new price and making money&nbsp; on it.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; If somebody wants to try and make a living at this, it is&nbsp; hard,&nbsp; but to say you need at least 5 years worth of income or more&nbsp; ($100,000 and up,i am from volusia county florida, we are poor) i think&nbsp; is crazy.&nbsp; &nbsp; I think what should be pointed out is you will probably be&nbsp; capable of making the business pay for itself, but will not be able to&nbsp; live off of it.&nbsp; &nbsp; If it is something you really want to do,&nbsp;&nbsp; why not&nbsp; give it a shot?&nbsp; &nbsp; Even setting up at&nbsp; a little dirt aisle flea market&nbsp;&nbsp; we were able to see and buy some really interesting things, gain respect&nbsp; from locals and make some money in the process.&nbsp;&nbsp; To bigtree who started this,&nbsp; &nbsp; if you want it,&nbsp;&nbsp; go for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; You might lose, you might win, but what&#039;s the fun of doing something if you already know the outcome?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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