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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 8513011, member: 77814&quot;]When I was young I didn&#039;t know what I know now.</p><p>I bought from magazine sources.</p><p>I didn&#039;t go to a LCS until years later.</p><p>I didn&#039;t know we could buy directly from the Mint until the mid 2000s.&nbsp; So I bought my ASEs from a LCS/ online sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>So these companies help introduce people to collecting.&nbsp; Unfortunately, if the buyers expand their knowledge and range or where they buy things they don&#039;t realize how much the prices are high.&nbsp; Just look at the TV sellers.</p><p>Collecting for the fun of it, for an investment .... </p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have buyers who don&#039;t give you market value, as they want to sell it for their business operations.&nbsp; In the end we&#039;re in a capitalistic economy.&nbsp; It&#039;s buyer beware and hopefully there&#039;s equal competition in the marketplace vying for one&#039;s attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course when liquidation times come around one wants value for it.&nbsp; The &quot;joy of collecting&quot; and other soft values etc etc is thrown out and it all comes down to hard $$$ cash.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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