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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 725769, member: 1674&quot;]I would imagine that an offer of 50% of trends is likely to be a fair offer on many things.&nbsp; Very few dealers have the absolute rocks it takes to price their inventory at &quot;Trends&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at some recent Heritage auctions and then compare the prices realized to the Trends values for those coins, I think that would be an eye-opening experience for you.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, you are wrong on that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin prices have slumped sharply over the past 10-14 months, with some areas of the market down 20-30% (or more) and it is far worse for currency prices, which are down 30-50% in some areas.&nbsp; The market seems stable at the current levels but that doesn&#039;t mean that prudent dealers have not cut prices on their inventories to keep the cashflow rolling, because they have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>lol, that is called being a dealer!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>no they are not useless, they help dealers sell coins to collectors not willing to do their homework on what value a particular coin has.&nbsp; You are missing the crucial component here, that the prices &quot;reported&quot; in &quot;Trends&quot; are supplied by dealers who have coins they would like to sell, this clearly leads to inflated prices, which the unknowlegable take as gospel.</p><p><br /></p><p>No dealer forced you to buy anything, so if you decided not to do your due diligence before purchasing a coin and overpaid for it, then I don&#039;t see how this is the dealer&#039;s problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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