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<p>[QUOTE="National dealer, post: 9975, member: 487"]The only way to learn how to run a coin business is to be in it. We all loose money on deals. We all buy fakes. We all buy over graded coins. All of these things happen. It is a serious learning curve. I worked for the company 11 years before buying it. I was into coins years before working in them. Currently I spend 70 to 80 hours a week involved with coins. I view hundreds of coins each and every week. My days, nights, and weekends are spent talking, sorting, grading, packaging coins. This is not for the parttime effort. </p><p>Now all dealers do not put in this kind of effort, and some put in more. It all depends on how you want to be. I know flea market guys who spend a few hours a week buying and selling coins. That is how they wish to do it. I have 16 employees that count on me putting in the long hours and sacrificing a life for it. I choose this, because I am good at it, and I love every aspect of it. This is my life. And short of being picked for a bachelor on one of the reality shows, I would not consider another job.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two great dealers networks. Both require referrences, two years in the business, and financial referrences.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="National dealer, post: 9975, member: 487"]The only way to learn how to run a coin business is to be in it. We all loose money on deals. We all buy fakes. We all buy over graded coins. All of these things happen. It is a serious learning curve. I worked for the company 11 years before buying it. I was into coins years before working in them. Currently I spend 70 to 80 hours a week involved with coins. I view hundreds of coins each and every week. My days, nights, and weekends are spent talking, sorting, grading, packaging coins. This is not for the parttime effort. Now all dealers do not put in this kind of effort, and some put in more. It all depends on how you want to be. I know flea market guys who spend a few hours a week buying and selling coins. That is how they wish to do it. I have 16 employees that count on me putting in the long hours and sacrificing a life for it. I choose this, because I am good at it, and I love every aspect of it. This is my life. And short of being picked for a bachelor on one of the reality shows, I would not consider another job. There are two great dealers networks. Both require referrences, two years in the business, and financial referrences.[/QUOTE]
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