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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1850223, member: 19463&quot;]At risk of being considered the devil&#039;s advocate, I&#039;ll point out that other than the prices the write ups in question are well done and would be a real service to the target audience that care to read them.&nbsp; He obviously knows a lot about the subject and offers a reasonable selection of nice coins mixed in with the usual trash.&nbsp; For the most part, I even agree with the relative prices; it is just that they are 5-10 times what you might expect from other dealers.&nbsp; I have been told by several dealers that buying coins is harder than selling them.&nbsp; I know one dealer who was concerned that he had sold too many coins on Friday to make it worth going to a show on Saturday.&nbsp; Was he selling too cheap?&nbsp; I&#039;ll never say that!&nbsp;&nbsp; A dealer can decide if he is going to make $1 on a thousand sales or $1000 on just one sale (assuming you make that one sale).&nbsp; We all see this in every dealer to a degree.&nbsp; We only take offence when we consider it ridiculous.&nbsp; Perhaps it is like how oppressed the Romans felt with a 1/2% sales tax and how Caligula was so proud to repeal it that he issued a coin commemorating it.&nbsp; Few of us recall a tax that low and don&#039;t feel oppressed until we travel to a place that has it worse than we do.&nbsp;&nbsp; Does that mean I will be buying coins for 10x reasonable?&nbsp; Unlikely --- at least not too often.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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