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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2545789, member: 19463&quot;]Looking at some of my earlier purchases things were not so different then as now.&nbsp; I paid too much for some coins and too little for others.&nbsp; Of the dealers I patronized in the early days, few are still alive but the few that are were able to change with time as the business required.&nbsp; I know a few people who once worked for CNG and later went out on their own.&nbsp; Some did better than others.&nbsp; In the old days, I expect more of us knew and were known by the dealer who did not worry about our paying with good checks.&nbsp; A lot this was changed when everything went &#039;World Wide&#039; and price lists in the mail stopped filling my mailbox.&nbsp; I remember making phone calls within 5 minutes of opening my mail and still sometimes being too late.&nbsp; I probably did better buying coins when I lived places that got mail delivery early in the day.&nbsp; Shows have changed less and I still patronize more than one dealer who does not sell online, issue lists or anything other than face to face.&nbsp; They probably do not make as much money as the ones that do.&nbsp; Maybe it is a better way to do business if you are retired from a well paying &#039;day job&#039;.&nbsp; I can not see how some of the age 80+ dealers at shows do it, I know I couldn&#039;t.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, I was born in the same year as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush but am a few months older than all of them and had enough sense not to run for office.&nbsp; To the best of my knowledge, none of them collect ancient coins either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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