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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4041004, member: 73489&quot;]But my point is that unless you get &quot;strong hands&quot; buyers who want to own coins long-term (years or decades) -- i.e., THE PUBLIC -- you can&#039;t have 100 dealers at a coin show all selling each other their stuff at minimal markup (if any) and making a profit, right ?&nbsp; In fact, they can&#039;t all be dealing with one another (that 80% you cite) and selling at a LOSS, either.&nbsp; Pretty much net-net they&#039;re breaking even dealing with one another -- it&#039;s a zero-sum game.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you need the public to buy and move prices up, or if prices are falling, it&#039;s probably a good indicator (in fact, it MUST be the case) that the public is a net seller of coins (or we are still burning off the excess of a previous bubble, something I have talked about before).</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, dealers aren&#039;t in business to break-even or lose money....a loss here or there might make sense but too many losses among too many dealers would indicate public liquidation of coins net-net.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if they are &quot;low&quot; but they seem realistic.&nbsp; I do see that the lower bound of the estimate seems to be the dividing line where you don&#039;t go much above except in rare cases.&nbsp; When you add in all the other taxes and fees, buying at the lower bound means you pay closer to the upper in many cases.&nbsp; Or even above it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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