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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2751807, member: 10461&quot;] <ol> <li>There were <i>two</i> revolving <a href="http://www.spindisplay.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.spindisplay.com" rel="nofollow">Spin Display</a> cases.&nbsp; With the tray configuration I used, each could hold over 700 coins in 2x2 flips.&nbsp; This is where the better inventory resided, under lock and key, while I didn&#039;t mind losing the odd loose piece or two from the pick bins.&nbsp; Those drew people in.</li> <li>Errors? Once or twice, on occasion.</li> <li>Love tokens?&nbsp; Not that I recall.&nbsp; I collected those for myself, but don&#039;t recall selling any there.</li> <li>The custom wooden dollars?&nbsp; Gone now, mostly, but I could probably lay my hand on 2-3 strays around here somewhere. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></li> </ol><p></p><p><br /></p><p>I almost always made the rent.&nbsp; I never made giant profits, though, because I stubbornly stuck more to what I personally liked, which is World coins.&nbsp; <i>Cheap</i> World coins do fine, but in this medium-sized Georgia town, what people really wanted were generic Morgan dollars and stuff.&nbsp; I <i>did</i> carry that sort of thing, but let my personal tastes more than customer demand dictate what I stocked.&nbsp; In the last year I sublet the booth to Wesley H (&quot;guitarwes&quot; on Co!lectors Universe).&nbsp; He stocked more popular US coins and did 3x to 5x more sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>Occasionally, when I felt like it.&nbsp; But the nice thing about a vendor setup in a trusted location is that you don&#039;t <i>have</i> to be there all the time.&nbsp; They take the customers&#039; money and charge the tax and process the credit cards, and as the vendor, you get a check every month, minus their commission and the rent.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what I could have and <i>should</i> have done was to advertise one day a week where I would physically be on the premises in person, to do free appraisals and buy stuff that was brought in.&nbsp; This is the true advantage the brick-and-mortar dealer has over the Internet operator: he gets the true wholesale material walking in his door and gets to <i>buy</i> from the general public (which, as any dealer will tell you, can be both a blessing <i>and</i> a curse).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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