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<p>[QUOTE="delawaredoons, post: 4549037, member: 113006"]I have lurked here for two years and watched him dispense terrible advice time and time again. Senior administrator or not, he clearly has not had his feet wet in the business of buying and selling coins in quite a while. The buy-sell spreads have expanded greatly over the past 10 years, especially in more esoteric stuff. What is esoteric? Anything not US.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers who deal in the types of coins the original poster has and wants to part with do not offer anything remotely near what he would get from consigning that material to auction or selling it himself on eBay, even with the issues regarding international shipping. I would guess a dealer would look to buy his material for around half of retail, whereas he could probably net 65-70% of retail selling it on his own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Better yet, send it to GreatCollections and let Ian handle it all. That man is marvelous and worth every cent he makes there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="delawaredoons, post: 4549037, member: 113006"]I have lurked here for two years and watched him dispense terrible advice time and time again. Senior administrator or not, he clearly has not had his feet wet in the business of buying and selling coins in quite a while. The buy-sell spreads have expanded greatly over the past 10 years, especially in more esoteric stuff. What is esoteric? Anything not US. Dealers who deal in the types of coins the original poster has and wants to part with do not offer anything remotely near what he would get from consigning that material to auction or selling it himself on eBay, even with the issues regarding international shipping. I would guess a dealer would look to buy his material for around half of retail, whereas he could probably net 65-70% of retail selling it on his own. Better yet, send it to GreatCollections and let Ian handle it all. That man is marvelous and worth every cent he makes there.[/QUOTE]
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