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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vegas Vic, post: 1990331, member: 58810&quot;]Other thread</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Call me out on anything you want. This is America if it makes you happy go for it. But I stand behind what i say. And what I have consistently said is that dealers at shows <b>in general&nbsp; </b>appear to me to have a higher margin then online coin sales that if I hunt around and turn over every rock.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, you can keep your mutually acceptable price to your self. As I said above market pressure will push the margins down as time goes down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am absolutely only interested in buying nice coins. I have no interest in developing any relationships with anyone. Now despite that I have some really good ones I&#039;ve made with online guys. After you buy a couple high end coins I guess they want to know you. So ironically I have even made relationships despite the fact that I have no primary interest in developing them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now Doug is going to read this and tell me i could get an even better price by developing a relationship. Since price is all I&#039;m concerned with. Good response and I respect it. He is telling me I can achieve my goals better with a different methodology. So I&#039;ll respond to what I feel is a good point to make.</p><p><br /></p><p>My response is I think I&#039;m doing very well now my way. And I&#039;m not interested in paying higher prices today to maybe get a deal tomorrow. Just a personal choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>So getting back to dealers. To be honest I don&#039;t care about their expenses. I don&#039;t care about them needing to make a living. I only care about buying nice coins at the best prices. If a dealer makes money great. But it is none of my concern how much or little a dealer makes on a transaction, a statement Doug has made to others.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I want to buy a nice car I have to pay more then a normal car. I also understand that better coins sell for more then grey or list. But I only want to pay as little as possible acknowledging it won&#039;t be the same price as a generic white non special coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t care about anyone selling me any product. When I buy a car I don&#039;t want a relationship with the car dealer. I just want the best price on the nicest car. When I go to costco and buy a tv I don&#039;t want to get to know the checkout clerk nor do I care if Costco can cover their costs. Maybe yesterday people needed to care about their coin dealer. But in today&#039;s world I see it as unnecessary. I&#039;m not &quot;just interested in dollars and cents&quot;. I&#039;m interested in coins, buying nice coins and paying as little as possible. I care as little about the coin dealer and their business as the car dealer and costco. If they go out of business the coins don&#039;t evaporate and I&#039;ll just buy from the next guy.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is America. I want the best item for the lowest price. That&#039;s the American way just like baseball and apple pie. I am not ashamed nor embarrassed about my opinion. I am proud to pay as little for everything I can. I do believe this is a market economy. I see no reason coins are any different from any other widget I buy to make my life better.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not about people &quot;ripping me off&quot;. My other thread title is</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>The &quot;I don&#039;t buy Coins from coin dealers at shows and stick to online buying&quot; thread</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6">Not &quot;coin dealers are evil and ripping me off thread&quot;. </font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I understand market economies. I understand popcorn costs more at a movie theater then at home. I&#039;m not saying movie theaters are trying to rip me off. I&#039;m not asking to eat popcorn at a theater but pay costco prices. Basically what I&#039;m saying is in today&#039;s world I don&#039;t have to go to the movie theater and pay more for popcorn. If all I want is great popcorn then I can buy online popcorn and buy popcorn at near what the movie theater pays when they buy popcorn. But you are right. I don&#039;t care about the guy who sells me popcorn. I don&#039;t care about the movie theater going out of business. The market is there so there will always be someone to sell me what I want. If a movie theater chain goes out of business Hollywood doesn&#039;t stop making movies.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I have been saying all along is I think I can buy good coins without paying movie popcorn rates. And I posted examples. If you really want feel free to go over my coin pics in the &quot;post your coin porn&quot; thread and pick any coin I posted and I&#039;ll tell you what I paid. Usually I need to pay around 10-35% above the typical coinfacts or greysheet price. I have made some mistakes and will be honest about them as well. On my coinfacts example coins I can pay up to 50%+ premiums over their last auction price. I&#039;m willing to bleed for those coins. Supply and demand. There are very few coin fact coins and I love owning a coin so pretty it is listed on coinfacts. But the rest of my collection is not so poorly priced. Again I&#039;m willing&nbsp; to be honest about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only questions for you are these. Do you really care about the guy at Costco who sells you a tv? Do you really care about the guy who sells you popcorn?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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