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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 359514, member: 6370&quot;]^^ Thats a real cool point of view!! Any coin I buy stays with me, I dont flip coins and have never sold a single coin so I wont be making money and this coin will find a permanent home. I spend a lot on coins...not because I buy too many coins but because they are over priced because, like you say, people just trying to eek an few more bucks out of me. So I understand that. Its frustrating to see people so happy about buying a coin cheap, getting it slabbed so they can relist for way more money. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It probably sounds crazy but I feel I should have my coins at the lowest of prices because I truly love coins, a pure collector, I love them more and dont sell or make any money off them and dont care if I could one day. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Sadly it is the pure colelctor who pays the most, the people who flip and sell who look at it as a way to make money are the people getting the best prices. If there were a way to remove profit and business from the hobby that would be great but not realistic. I look upon coins as historical object that should be collected and put on view, the information and images to be public knowledge, the coin conserved.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have contacted sellers on ebay who were selling things misattributed thus priced wrong. I have never had a person respond and change the auction so I figured I wouldn&#039;t bother.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Again though...in everything I will research if I sell something and it is not my concern what the person makes, how he got the coin he knows nothing about, or why he is selling a coin for too little. If he is smart enough to even ask me what I think I will tell him...otherwise...I am cheap because I am not rich...I want as many coins as I can get my hands on for as little as possible...Most of the time I am overpaying for coins from dealers who know what they have and its just a matter of buying or not, its not a discussion. When asked, I have always been truthful when it comes to worth of a coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In fact when a guy came here some time back with a list of coins with what he thought the grades were...no pictures, you just have to give a rough estimate of worth from the info he provided. To a man every person on the forum lowballed...some ridiculously low...like 10 bucks for book price 80 bucks worth of coins...I think I was the only person who put the book price for every coin at the grade listed...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Even when a person is just asking what a lot at a certain grade would be worth, people couldn&#039;t help lowballing...when I poited it out they said stuff like &#039;they probably arent that grade&#039; or &#039;I dont buy coins at book price&#039;...but the guy was asking what coins at a certain grade were worth, not how much they would buy for!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Its human nature to want to get a good deal. I will not offer to throw away MORE of my money on a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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