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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3622513, member: 19463"]This is a can't win situation. I never use want lists as offered on VCoins. If I see a coin there I want, there are three possibilities. Either I order it (now!) OR someone else will OR (most often the case) it was overpriced to a point that it is not something I would want my family to spend their money on. I bought four coins today. That means either I paid more than other people who had seen them would or I got lucky and saw the listing first among the group that might be interested in them. In all honesty, time is very much the essence in buying coins at a fixed price. If you go to a show and shop every dealer before deciding which coin to buy, you run a great risk that someone else bought it before you could tell your wife that Dealer X has what you want for Christmas. I have greatly appreciated several gift coins over the years but they were not things that I had seen before and passed up. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been trying to sell some coins through John Anthony's auctions. Quite accidentally I sold a very low value coin received as a gift. I hope the giver is not a JA sale subscriber.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3622513, member: 19463"]This is a can't win situation. I never use want lists as offered on VCoins. If I see a coin there I want, there are three possibilities. Either I order it (now!) OR someone else will OR (most often the case) it was overpriced to a point that it is not something I would want my family to spend their money on. I bought four coins today. That means either I paid more than other people who had seen them would or I got lucky and saw the listing first among the group that might be interested in them. In all honesty, time is very much the essence in buying coins at a fixed price. If you go to a show and shop every dealer before deciding which coin to buy, you run a great risk that someone else bought it before you could tell your wife that Dealer X has what you want for Christmas. I have greatly appreciated several gift coins over the years but they were not things that I had seen before and passed up. I have been trying to sell some coins through John Anthony's auctions. Quite accidentally I sold a very low value coin received as a gift. I hope the giver is not a JA sale subscriber.[/QUOTE]
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