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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1980867, member: 27832&quot;]Ah, one of <i>those</i> charts. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The sticker-changers might have been pretty busy between August 2007 and October 2008 -- but that&#039;s 14 months, and during that time, the price index went up by <b>less than 12.5%</b>. During most of the one-year periods on this chart, prices changed by less than 5%. The chart is factually accurate, but setting the Y range (dollars) the way it does, it&#039;s <i>misleading</i> -- it makes it look like values swung from near zero to some high value, then back down to 25% of the peak, and that&#039;s simply not so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I honestly don&#039;t know how closely most dealers track market fluctuations. Do they adjust a $500 coin to $505 if it goes up by 1%, or do they wait for a bigger threshold? I imagine it varies from dealer to dealer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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