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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1038116, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Littleton&#039;s Pricing</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Littleton&#039;s pricing is fine.&nbsp; You get what you pay for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone can build a computer -- and many people do... and those who do think you got cheated by HP or Apple who charge rip-off prices for a pretty plastic wrapper.&nbsp; The US Mint sells 1 to 2 million Mint and Proof sets each year.&nbsp; But only 100,000 people subscribe to <i>Coin World</i>, and only 35,000 belong to the ANA.&nbsp; Like the computer nerd who builds his own, you are a coin geek.&nbsp; Not everyone is.&nbsp; Littleton serves that wider market well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>They do not buy problem coins</b>.&nbsp; When their buyers travel around the country visting dealers, they take only the best coins and pay the best prices for them.&nbsp; Ask a dealer who has sold to Littleton.&nbsp; (Where else do you think they get coins from?&nbsp; They don&#039;t make them.)&nbsp; <b>So, when you buy a VF Indian Head Cent, that is what you get, not an impaired XF or a cleaned coin with VF details.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Second, as a result of the first, their catalogs and website offer positive choices.&nbsp; You do not have to sift through junk to find the gems.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That 2nd point bears on the overwhelming cost burden of a hobby:&nbsp; we love driving 30 minutes to a coin store, 30 minutes home, spending 2 hours in the store looking at junk to find the gem, and then asking for a lower price.&nbsp; It&#039;s fun!&nbsp; ... but it is expensive, a hidden cost that we do not tally.&nbsp; So, when you pay a few dollars more for a Littleton coin, it is because <b>you saved on the cost of purchase.&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Realize though, that with Littleton, you still have to look through a lot of stuff to see what you want, so the shopping experience still awaits, except that you are at Nieman Marcus, not the recyclers. </p><p><br /></p><p>When you say you can get it for &quot;less&quot; realize that <b>dealers sell to you at Greysheet because they paid even less</b> than that.&nbsp; Someone got soaked and you think when you buy at Greysheet, you will sell at Red Book -- and you might; it&#039;s part of the fun of the hobby.&nbsp; But, generally, the great bulk of all numismatic material tends to sell for one-fourth of retail.&nbsp; If you do better than that, it is because you are in the stream, one of the cool guys.&nbsp; So, enjoy that, but do not heap scorn on the retail buyer who just wants to enjoy a nice coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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