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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2468633, member: 1892&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t call them a shining beacon of light illuminating the future of numismatics, but they&#039;re not exactly the trolls some make them out to be, either. Perhaps it&#039;s just showing my age but I distinctly remember a time in my life when their business model was widely popular across many aspects of retailing, not just numismatics, and there were a number of other numismatic firms using a similar model.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t forget, before the Internet, if you were a rural dweller who liked coins, it was not at all easy to acquire new pieces. There weren&#039;t <b>seventy</b> grading divisions, nor the intense competition between numismatists to have a coin with <b>one single mark</b> less than their fellow&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been said, there&#039;s no arguing the accuracy and honesty of their grading, and in a hobby where even Littleton is doing most of their business via online contact, how do we place sole blame for what we feel is excessive pricing upon the dealer when a tsunami of accurate pricing information is available to anyone with a keyboard and monitor? For that matter, how do we get to decide what others should consider a &quot;fair&quot; price?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hell, I&#039;ll bet I could have had every_single_coin I&#039;ve bought in the last few months for a better price if I&#039;d waited. But then I wouldn&#039;t have had those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Dealer of the Year?&quot; I dunno. Maybe it&#039;s been awarded for a body of work, in a year when nobody really stood out as deserving it any better. And there&#039;s a lot to be said for pander, especially when it generates publicity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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