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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bahabully, post: 879662, member: 17555&quot;]This is really no different than any other retail operation....&nbsp;&nbsp; the margin may be different, but that&#039;s probably because the volumes are lower than in a commercial retail operation.&nbsp;&nbsp; I remember working as a delivery boy for a furniture store waaay back in the day,,, I was amazed when I came across the whole sale price list (a &quot;highly&quot; guarded secret),&nbsp; the store would get recliners for $65 and sell them for $400, or $200 on thier 50% discount sales days,, heck they even discounted them 75% and sold them for $100 and made money when they wanted to get rid of stock.&nbsp; Beds were the same,, heck, it was all the same.&nbsp; Furniture mark up is crazy.. 400-500% is the norm.&nbsp;&nbsp; Same thing for diamonds and precious stones,,, $500 dollar diamonds go for $3500 retail.....&nbsp; and should we even bring up cars,,, or USED CARS !</p><p>Anyone in the middleman game makes a living by screwing the customer, it&#039;s how they eat... Thier ethics simply define how well they eat in an inverse relationship.</p><p>It&#039;s one reason I really like the &#039;bay,, at least that&#039;s a venue that the mass collector population can find other collectors selling thier good with no middleman adding crazy margins into the transaction,, I&#039;ll take the &#039;bay fees associated with selling a coin all day long to avoid the lowballers.</p><p>... don&#039;t take this as a coin dealer slam,, it&#039;s not, it&#039;s just the way the retail game works.&nbsp; I buy from dealers and auctions sites all the time, they tend to offer hard to find items that are not readily available from the collector community sales on the &#039;bay... however, I still slobber when I see a collector selling on the &#039;bay,,, over time, you can tell the difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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