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<p>[QUOTE="leoq, post: 691234, member: 20092"]"<i>For the most part, you will need to pay higher prices to get quality. Remember, dealers generally buy from Grey sheet, so how can anyone expect them to sell at Grey sheet? Especially key dates, high quality, and just plain hard to find coins will usually be higher than Grey sheet, so yes shop around, but be sure you are getting the best quality for the price you are paying." </i></p><p> </p><p><i>This very contradictory... It makes me think is that the people -regarless of dealers or regular Joes- are speculators. They buy at high prices and sell without ethic, (no derrogatory intent). Just making an easy dollar.... Not nice!</i></p><p> </p><p><i>I think that serious buying and selling should be based on reasons and knowledge. Lets say buying, a really good price below the highest Gray Sheet Price. And then selling without "over pricing" the Gray Sheet Price indexl But if dealers or Joes are buying at top prices then they have to sell at higher out of Gary Sheet "range" prices. So why in the first place did they buy when they know that there is no room to sell? </i></p><p> </p><p><i>Just an opinion... Of course, offer and demand sets the pricetag. Everyone knows that! </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leoq, post: 691234, member: 20092"]"[I]For the most part, you will need to pay higher prices to get quality. Remember, dealers generally buy from Grey sheet, so how can anyone expect them to sell at Grey sheet? Especially key dates, high quality, and just plain hard to find coins will usually be higher than Grey sheet, so yes shop around, but be sure you are getting the best quality for the price you are paying." [/I] [I]This very contradictory... It makes me think is that the people -regarless of dealers or regular Joes- are speculators. They buy at high prices and sell without ethic, (no derrogatory intent). Just making an easy dollar.... Not nice![/I] [I]I think that serious buying and selling should be based on reasons and knowledge. Lets say buying, a really good price below the highest Gray Sheet Price. And then selling without "over pricing" the Gray Sheet Price indexl But if dealers or Joes are buying at top prices then they have to sell at higher out of Gary Sheet "range" prices. So why in the first place did they buy when they know that there is no room to sell? [/I] [I]Just an opinion... Of course, offer and demand sets the pricetag. Everyone knows that! [/I][/QUOTE]
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