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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jason.A, post: 2802963, member: 87620&quot;]I would not necessarily assume anyone reading this would have an answer to this question, but it is something I have wondered about. </p><p><br /></p><p>Companies like Apmex, MCM, and smaller dealers like Pinehurst coins sell on Amazon. Their prices are often outrageously over spot. ($175 for a 1/10 AGE current year, for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why would these companies sell on Amazon? </p><p>1. They want to have a presence everywhere to increase familiarity with their brand. ?</p><p>2. They might make an occasional sale with a profit high enough to justify Amazon&#039;s higher listing fees?</p><p>3. They have partnered with Amazon in Prime arrangements for free shipping in an arrangement we don&#039;t know about that doesn&#039;t actually cost them extra to list because Amazon would like some bullion products on their site? </p><p><br /></p><p>Why would people buy from Amazon?</p><p>1. They have a certificate or some other incentive that is tied to Amazon and can&#039;t be spent elsewhere, and a few dollars extra over spot isn&#039;t the end of the world to people like this?</p><p>2. Someone is stupid and doesn&#039;t know better?</p><p>3. Someone doesn&#039;t trust having things shipped to their home, work, or doesn&#039;t have a PO box, so they feel better shipping it to an Amazon locker?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just don&#039;t know, but it is something that has really interested me because the prices are so much higher, but they seem to always be there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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