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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 4986613, member: 44357&quot;]I&#039;ll echo all of what [USER=39084]@IdesOfMarch01[/USER] posted and add a couple more comments for pprp&#039;s response:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, I paid $5K for this coin. The difference in commission between where I bought it and my max bid would be ~$450 to my dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a pretty good feel for pricing myself and if I happened to keep buying coins right around my max bid, I might become suspicious but this is definitely a highly pessimistic view of an industry made of generally above-board people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there are disingenuous people in every industry but there are more good coin dealers than not in my experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>That sounds like a pretty poor return considering if they were being disingenuous, they&#039;d lose my business and anyone I&#039;d tell. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not entirely sure what the point is here but there is definitely a preference in the market for coins with at least some sales history, which was the (valid) point he was making. It would seem pretty unproductive if a dealer preached against buying unprovenanced coins and then bought the coins themselves... surely they&#039;d be hurting the value of the coins they just purchased?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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