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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 31450, member: 66&quot;]I know that the TV guys can charge whatever they want, but they are frauding people when they tell you that the coins are much more expensive elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually they aren&#039;t.&nbsp; There are actually companies out there sending out catalogs to people with those coins priced HIGHER than he TV salesmen.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen them. One example several years back was an uncut sheet of dollar bills.&nbsp; At the time you could buy them from the Treasury for $38.&nbsp; The TV hucksters were asking $75 to $100.&nbsp; Sharper Image catalog had them priced at $200 a sheet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The real problem is that when collectors see them selling at about 100% more than they could be bought from a dealer they don&#039;t consider the much greater overhead that the TV seller faces.&nbsp; For starters the cable network will be taking 25% of the gross sales right off the top.&nbsp; Say you have a coin that a dealer would buy at $70 and sell at $100, $30 profit.&nbsp; If the TV people did the same the would sell for $100, network takes $25, $5 profit.&nbsp; In order to make the same starting profit that the dealer does they HAVE to sell it at a minimum of $133.&nbsp; And the TV dealer Still has to pay for the air time (yes that isn&#039;t covered in that 25% the network gets.), cameramen, sound crew, foley crew, set designers and builders, director, electricians plus others (And these are ALL Union wages folks)&nbsp; And there are still other miscellaneous expenses.&nbsp; So it isn&#039;t too surprising they have a 100% markup over what a dealer sells for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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