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Message:: [QUOTE="Mark Feld, post: 725594, member: 11467"]A "retail" price guide might be unrealistically high, such that some dealers might not even sell at those (high) levels. And if an owner of a coin has paid considerably more than the going rate/fair market value for it, an offer of half of what he paid might not be unfair. My point is that a fair price for a dealer to pay is based on a number of considerations (apart from so-called "retail"), including the quality and eye-appeal of the item in question, as well as what similar coins have been trading for, what he would try to sell such a coin for, how liquid he thinks the coin is, etc.  Generally speaking, if I am a seller of a coin at $1000, I would be a buyer in the $850-$900 range. Other dealers might have smaller or larger margins, depending upon the type of coins they handle and how rich they are trying to become.[/QUOTE]