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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 2759895, member: 20480&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I don&#039;t really mind the cost all THAT much . . . the boxes are $200 anually . . . a drop in the bucket, really.&nbsp; I&#039;m more concerned with the time it takes to retrieve individual coins if I sign into the wrong SDB.&nbsp; When I make a sale, I enter it in the books and prepare the packaging the night of the sale.&nbsp; During my lunch hour the next day I drive to the bank, retrieve the item from the SDB, seal it in the package, mail it, and drive back to work, eating my lunch along the way.&nbsp; Trust me . . . that&#039;s a tight squeeze.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000">Thanks Dave, I asked the question the way I did because the slabs occupy so much more volume than 2x2s do, unfairly dominating the space in a SDB.&nbsp; Increasing the value of uncertified coins I carry in stock would reduce the volume of slabs, making room for far more raw coins, allowing me to grow inventory dollars without increasing the number of boxes I currently use.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000">I do have an inventory tracking system, starting with lowest denoms in the first and ending with highest denoms and errors in the last. but a significant shift in inventory between dollars and quarter eagles, for one example, often moves the dividing line between what fits in one box and What ends up in the next, and sometimes causes me to forget which box a coin I need happens to be in.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000">My goal is to grow the business while trading only in quality coins of uncommon dates which, in my mind, can be either high grade or low grade, but they must be good examples.&nbsp; That means their value can run the gamut.&nbsp; For that reason, I&#039;d rather not focus on either high priced or low priced coins, but offer quality coins in whatever price range I manage to buy them.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000">It&#039;s an unfortunate development that, as the TPG&#039;s run out of slab-worthy coins to grade, they are now holdering almost anything they can get a few bucks for, just to keep the bills paid.&nbsp; I think that most of the lower value coins that are so commonly being certified now don&#039;t really need to be validated by the TPG&#039;s for those who don&#039;t know what they are looking at . . . many of those holders are costing buyers more money than they stand to lose buying and reselling a coin raw instead.&nbsp; Worse yet, they are reinforcing the belief that, just because a coin is gradable, it should be submitted.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #000000">I hate to think what this world will someday look like when terra firma is littered with common coins surrounded by non-biodegradable TPG holders.</span></span></span></span></span></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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