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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 739637, member: 66&quot;]I think many people who bash dealers have no real understanding of what it is like to be on the dealers side of the counter.&nbsp; And as for the good dealer/ bad dealer bit, some of those &quot;bad dealers&quot; may just be personality conflict problems.&nbsp; I&#039;ve known dealers that in my opinion were &quot;terrible, rude, dishonest people,&quot; but I&#039;ve also known other collectors who get along with them fine and who consider them to be great people.&nbsp; (and those other collectors are getting good coins and decent deals).&nbsp; So that dealer and I just don&#039;t get along, maybe it&#039;s him, maybe its me.&nbsp; If he doesn&#039;t like me then his attitude would refect that and then I wouldn&#039;t like him.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer serves one very important function.&nbsp; He is a clearinghouse fo coins and collections.&nbsp; As mentioned the internet is very new.&nbsp; In the days before the internet if here were no dealers where would you get your coins?&nbsp; Think about it.&nbsp; If you could only get your coins for your collection from those fellow collectors you knew who you did NOT meet through the net or at coin shows (no dealers, no coin shows) what would your collection be like?&nbsp; And when you were through collecting who would you sell your collection to?&nbsp; No net, no ebay, no dealers, no coin shows, the only choice is whatever collectors you know locally or maybe in your local coin club.&nbsp; How many of them are going to step up and buy your collection?&nbsp; Why would they they don&#039;t need a lot of it.&nbsp; They might want a select few pieces but then what do you do with the reat?</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why dealers are needed, to provide that clearinghouse, to buy those items that they don&#039;t need and then offer them to others.&nbsp; To be that source for items that you haven&#039;t been able to find locally, and to move itms from one location where they are not desired to a dealer in another area where they are more desired.</p><p><br /></p><p>What if there were no dealers?&nbsp; What if there were no grocery stores.&nbsp; The farmers are still raising produce and meat and you still want to eat, but can you imagine the problems if every person had to deal individually with each producer and vice versa?&nbsp; You have to have the middlemen, the distributors, the jobbers, the retailers etc. to run smoothly and efficiently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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