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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 991478, member: 26302&quot;]Yes, those were some incredible coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would just say that I still believe that most people who buy from these firms would never have gotten into numismatics if they had not been reached by the advertising of these large players. Most leave, you are right, but some do stay and become collectors like the one you deal with. I didn&#039;t start with Littleton, but they sent me my first catalog to look at. While I never bought from them, that catalog led me in a way to more advanced collecting when I was a kid. I have a dealer friend who started buying from Littleton and today is a pretty good dealer. Maybe he would have never even known about coins that you can buy without contacting them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So these firm burn some people? Financially maybe if you buy from them for years with the hopes of resellilng, but I still think there are so many blatant issues in this hobby that they are one of the last issues we should be worrying about right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of it this way, if a non coin colelctor buys from these firms for years, has a nice hobby and enjoys himself, and his heirs sell his collection for only half of what he paid for it, isn&#039;t that family still better off than if he had another hobby that all the money was now gone? I am not saying it would not be better to be in the mainstream hobby, but many or most of these firms customers would be into stock car racing or sports memorabilia if they did not buy coins from these firms. These companies are not stealing customers from traditional dealers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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