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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 1984523, member: 71723&quot;]I&#039;m curious - would your view of dealers be any less favorable if your primary alternative were not the web, but 20-30 annual decent to excellent coin auctions right in your metaphorical backyard?</p><p><br /></p><p>That describes my life circumstance. Yes, I suspect it&#039;s unusual. I have plugged many other zip codes into the Auctionzip live auction search engine, and I have not yet found one more target-rich than mine. But when you have the viable option to buy how and where dealers do (and I know this because I see them sitting next to me), wouldn&#039;t that alter your calculus on the indispensability of dealers?</p><p><br /></p><p>Where auction houses abound, both coin buyers and coin sellers tend to use them, to mutually avoid having to have their respective prices have to support a dealer&#039;s living. SOME, not as many as 3 years ago, still don&#039;t even tack on a buyer&#039;s premium - you pay &quot;hammer&quot;, and at least in PA, no sales tax either on coins. (6% on medals and paper currency.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And as an added extra bonus, you can find rare varieties that neither the consignor, nor the auctioneer, were ever aware were there, like a Lafayette Dollar in a box lot with junk medals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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