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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2759826, member: 112&quot;]From what I can see most of your questions have been answered Mike, with one possible exception - raw coins. Dave kind of touched on it here - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is very few actually &quot;know what they&#039;re looking at&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is why, and I&#039;m sure you already know this, the TPGs are so successful. Now me, personally, I never had a problem buying a raw coin even if it was several thousand dollars. But that is only because of two things: 1 - I had confidence in my own ability to grade the coin correctly, as well as authenticate it in most cases; and 2 - because if I was buying a raw coin I would only buy it from a source I personally trusted. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s same problem as what I started with. There aren&#039;t a whole lot of people like that out there. So in my eyes anyway that kind of quantifies how you need to handle raw coins, at least partially. </p><p><br /></p><p>The other kind of person who buys raw coins is the one who just doesn&#039;t like slabbed coins. And yeah, there are people like that, just not a whole lot of them anymore. And a certain percentage of those still won&#039;t buy their coins raw, they&#039;ll buy them slabbed and then crack them out for inclusion in their collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now you know your market base better than any of us, but those two things tell me that only a small or at least a low percentage of your inventory should be raw coins. Especially when you couple that with the fact there we are and have been been for long time in a bear market. So whatever your inventory is the last thing you want is it just sitting around. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I were a dealer my primary strategy would be dropping prices to move things out the door. And being very careful with what I buy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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