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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 5264711, member: 112&quot;]I get why you and everybody else uses ebay as a source for low grade common coins - unless you use published price guides, there simply isn&#039;t anything else out there to use ! But that doesn&#039;t mean the prices you&#039;re seeing on ebay are any good, or in any way reflect real world value. Even when bad sources are all there is - they are still bad sources ! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the thing that people just don&#039;t seem to understand. A dealer offers what he offers because he can buy that given coin for that price all day long, 7 days a week ! THAT - is what defines fair.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what kind of a businessman would be if he were offer more than what he can buy it for anytime he wants ? He wouldn&#039;t be a businessman anymore - he&#039;d be a fool. </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem, and the reason that many collectors think dealers are not being fair, is that most collectors don&#039;t know what the real world value of a given coin is - what a fair price actually is. And the reason they don&#039;t know it is because they use bad sources of information !</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, yes, there is always going to be a difference between wholesale and retail. And it&#039;s not just with coins - it&#039;s with literally everything ! And you simply cannot expect dealers to offer retail when they can buy it for wholesale literally anytime they want to. </p><p><br /></p><p>Good dealers, respectable dealers, when they make you an offer - they are giving you a fair offer. You, meaning many if not most collectors - just don&#039;t know it, don&#039;t realize it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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