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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 747917, member: 16510&quot;]<b>From what you say d how you say it a think the offer was generous.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>From what you say and how you say it a think the offer was generous.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If a common coins retail price is $200 the right buy price maybe $60 or less.&nbsp; As a dealer I&#039;m never going to be able to sell that coin for $200 probablty more like $120.&nbsp; How do you think we make any money?</p><p>Remember the tried and true adage &quot;you make your money in coins buying not selling coins&quot;.</p><p>There are all kinds of problems associated with persons determining what their coins may be worth first and formost is &quot;how did you come up with that&quot;???</p><p>For example lets take a MS-65 Washington Quarter.&nbsp; The retail sheet may say as much as $15 but the real price today is 12x face value or $3 and here are the reasons.</p><p>1. Common as the day is long, we see bank rolls of them, still only silver BU or not.</p><p>2. Nobody is going to want and pay that ridiculus money ($15) for such a common coin.&nbsp; They don&#039;t have to there are millions of them.</p><p>3. And most important, the dealer that buys this coin is going to move it out for $3.30 this very day. He will be on the phone (if he has quanity of it) as soon as you walk out the door.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So you see, in this case that 50% of retail price would not only be gift it&#039;s not based in reality.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your interpretation of retail price is not based in real world events.&nbsp; Not even 50% of retail.</p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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