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Message:: [QUOTE="Leadfoot, post: 752411, member: 2972"]That is simply untrue.  I would use Mark Feld as an example, and there are others. Or perhaps they simply want to make a fair profit and not gouge their clients. I, for one, will not play the "try and hook a sucker with a high price, but negotiate with those in the know" game.  That, to me, says that a dealer is dishonest -- after all, if he'll gouge someone who doesn't know any better, why would he be upfront and honest in other ways.   It is worth noting that with the principal at Anaconda, this was proven to be true, and I think that if you question others "in the know" about the other toner dealers you mention, you will hear similar ancedotes.  Lastly, I dispute the assertion that "If every toned coin dealer follows the same practice, that does make the market."  Specifically, I would suggest that it makes the retail market for those dealers who seek to fleece the unsuspecting.  It does not account for the equally large segment of toned coins that either pass through auction, or pass through dealers that don't try and gouge the public, or pass from collector to collector -- and combined they are much larger than the few well-known dealers who you've mentioned.[/QUOTE]