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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3092405, member: 112&quot;]You&#039;re hung up on the idea of being ripped off. I&#039;m not. All I&#039;m saying is the dealer has a right to pay whatever he wants for a given coin, or charge whatever he wants to sell one.</p><p><br /></p><p>What Jay said above about Nike is exactly right. Is Nike ripping people off ? If you go to a jewelry store to buy jewelry, it&#039;s not uncommon for the markup at jewelry stores to be 400% - are the jewelers ripping people off ? If you go to buy furniture, not uncommon for the markup to be 300%. Are the furniture stores ripping people off ? if you to go to car dealer A and buy a car, then find out later that dealer B would have sold you the same car for $5,000 less - did dealer A rip you off ?</p><p><br /></p><p>In every case I have to say no it is not ripping people off ! Why ? Because nobody else has the right to say how much money somebody else can make.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll even use myself as an example. At one point in my life when I worked for a certain company and did my job, I was paid $10 hour. But less than 5 years later I was being paid $200 an hour to do the exact same job by a different company. Was I being ripped off by the first company ? Or was I ripping off the 2nd company ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, all of you use yourselves as an example. Whatever you are paid, however much it is, for whatever you do - there is somebody else out there that makes more than you do, and somebody else who makes less. Is anybody being ripped off ?</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are trying to claim is that just because you might bet a better price for coins you&#039;re selling at one place than another, that the dealer offering the low price is ripping you off. But that just isn&#039;t so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turn it around, make the scenario a dealer selling coins. It is an everyday occurrence for dealer A to ask twice as much as dealer B for the same exact coin. And for dealer C to ask 50% more than dealer B. Are A and C both ripping people off just because dealer B has the best price ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Offering cheaper prices when selling, and offering lower prices when buying is the very nature of business. It is the very definition of business. Is it wrong for one business to make more money than the other guy ? And what gives you, or anybody else, the right to say it is wrong ?</p><p><br /></p><p>When you start defining right and wrong that way, the problem is with you and your definition, not with the business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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