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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 434191, member: 4626&quot;]Ultimately if you buy any product of the US Mint the money goes to them, whether directly or indirectly... so if you hope to ultimately deprive them of income the only way you can do that is not to buy any products of the mint at all, not even indirectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re not trying to boycott them because of a matter of principle, but instead just prefer not to deal with them directly, then I guess buying the products indirectly is good enough.&nbsp; Just realize that they don&#039;t much care whether the money comes from you directly or they get it from a dealer who then gets it from you (plus their profit margin).</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest, if the latter, I&#039;m pretty much with you... any product I can reasonably get indirectly for a reasonable price, I&#039;d rather go that route.&nbsp; The convenience of not having to deal with the Mint&#039;s so-called customer service is worth a little markup for the dealer to make a profit and let the dealer deal with the Mint!&nbsp; Unfortunately some products are either not carried by many third part dealers or are unreasonably marked up when available, so sometimes my only practical choices are deal with the Mint or go without.&nbsp; I really want to keep the collection going of the First Lady medals, and so far haven&#039;t found many dealers willing to bother carrying them (most don&#039;t preceive there&#039;s enough collector interest to bother it seems).</p><p><br /></p><p>Which brings me back to the point that sometimes the Mint is the only game in town, and they know it... which is why they get complacent about their customer service sometimes.&nbsp; I&#039;m not even talking about missing say, a gold coin or anything, just a $3 presentation case... if they were in a competitive envrionment they would just send me another one without making me jump through rediculous hoops.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anywho, thanks for your responses all... will update this later to let you know how it all ultimately turns out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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