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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1915857, member: 66&quot;]It is a commonly believed myth.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Chris said the dealers are in the same boat as we are, but they have a lot more money so they do the place multiple orders for the maximum number game.&nbsp; This pretty well guarantees that they will have a large number of items before the average collector does.&nbsp; Think of it this way,</p><p><br /></p><p>Take 100 lincoln cents, 90 memorial and 10 wheat cents.&nbsp; These are going to represent the first 100 orders coming into the mint.&nbsp; The memorials represent the average collector ordering say 2 sets per order.&nbsp; The wheat cents are a dealer ordering at 50 sets per order.&nbsp; Put all 100 cents into a bag and start pulling them out one at a time (because the mint fills orders first in first out)&nbsp; Keep track and see how fast the number of sets the dealer gets out paces the number the collector gets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are say order #80 you are going to see that the dealer has a whole lot of sets before you get yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the big dealers tend to have standing orders with smaller dealer to buy new items when they come out.&nbsp; So those collectors who are lucky enough to get theirs early do some flipping and the dealers they sell to then ship to the big dealers.&nbsp; Is it any wonder the new item tend to accumulate in the big dealers hands?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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