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Message:: [QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8322359, member: 110504"]...Well, Okay, there was exactly one occasion when I was Just Ruthless about resale. As in, Thank you, 'flipping,' around the time when that term was first entering the lexicon, mainly in the real estate market.  It was at a local coin show in the late '80's.  I'd just gotten back into collecting, after a hiatus going back to when I was a kid. At this point, I'd already made the transition from collecting cheap ancients, mostly 3rd-early 4th-c. Roman, to medieval.  What I did was to buy stuff in which I had no particular subjective interest as a collector, but which I knew enough about to have some idea what I was looking at.  Running to ancients, from earlier Roman (including a Marc Antony legionary denarius, which I now seriously miss) to 5th c. BCE Greek.  Right on the floor, in real time, I resold them to collectors who were that much more deeply invested in that sort of thing. I recall tatting up my profits, and realizing that I'd made more money in one hour than I was likely to in any job I'd ever get with an undergraduate degree in English literature.  (Ask me about Samuel Johnson --I Dare you!)It was fun, but at the same time, it's nothing I'd want to repeat.  In effect, it was the kind of experience where I can now say, 'Yep, checked that box, once' --after which, I never have to go there again.[/QUOTE]