Found Collection

Many of the major shows (for a price)  let a person in early to a show during
the setup time for dealers to make some deals before the rest of the general
public
gets in.   If the dealers don't know you what are your chances of getting
some good coins before the rest of the people are let in?  Dealers love to
deal with each other but would they be a bit wary of someone they don't
know crashing their party so to speak and looking for the "better"
coins?  

|>Many of the major shows (for a price)  let a person in early to a show during
|>the setup time for dealers to make some deals before the rest of the general
|>public
|>gets in.   If the dealers don't know you what are your chances of getting
|>some good coins before the rest of the people are let in?  Dealers love to
|>deal with each other but would they be a bit wary of someone they don't
|>know crashing their party so to speak and looking for the "better"
|>coins?

When I've gone in on PNG day, I've always made a beeline to my favorite dealers. They know me (some would say they see me coming) and are eager to sell. Sometimes, I'll get waved down from across the room if a dealer knows me and has something I want or want to look at. These things are typically NOT very crowded.

The dealers i don't know may be holding things back, I don't know. But that wouldn't make a lot of economic sense, my checks are as good as the next fellows.

Bruce

I really pay little attention to whether you are an "early bird" or a table
holder when pricing my coins.  Occasionally, I'll lower the price if I know the
guy is table holder, but if you've paid a fee to shop early, that's fine with
me.  You'll get pretty much the same treatment as other people in the room, if
your money's good.

I will say that once in a while, some buyers who pay the fee and don't seem to
know what they're talking about or what they're interested in.  Early bird is
not a time for "window shopping" whether you're a dealer with a table or just
someone who paid the $25 fee.  Since dealers are sometimes preoccupied with
"larger" wholesale purchases, filling want lists and setting up their own
tables, you should know what you want and how much you want to pay.  Early
birds may also find many unoccupied or unmanned tables. Price negotiation
should be very limited.  The reason many dealers prefer to deal with other
dealers is the simple fact that usually they are within a few percentage points
of each other on price.  If you need a 27D Lincoln in XF and the dealer stops
setting up and searches thru his boxes don't try to haggle him for 10% off
greysheet.  I once had a guy do this to me and tell me he'd stop by the next
day to see if I was more willing to sell it at his price.  I was so pi**ed that
I gave it away to the first pre-*** kid I saw.  Ya know, the guy just couldn't
believe I'd sold that particular coin out of all the rest in the box...Darn!

dondi3

DONDI enterprises.  BUY, SELL, TRADE. RARE COINS & PRECIOUS METALS
Member COINNET, CSNS, ANA, INA, MOON, ILNA.

Ha! I managed to sneak into a coin show about two hours early. It was in the
Tacoma dome (Tacoma Washington). I didn't know I was early so it wasn't
intentional. I walked through a side door and found myself in the middle of a
car show then wandered down a hall and into the coin show floor.
I walked around a bid and wondered where the heck everybody was. I asked a
dealer "Have any error coins?" He said "No, I don't and if I see any dealer
selling to you right now, there is going to be some big trouble!!!"
I thought he was kidding and tried making conversation with him ... wasn't
going to happen. He then asked me how the hell I got in and I shouldn't be
here. I still thought he was kidding but getting kind of weird. I finally
realized I was in early. I causally made my way to the "real" enterence and
stopped to use a payphone to call my wife and tell her how I was two hours
early and how my 2.5 hour drive went. As I was talking to her, I could hear the
radios on the security guys belts saying "where is he? ... He said he came in
through the car show."
That is when I decided I better leave for a bit ;)
Jason Craton
ANA R-195238
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United States to see the head of Liberty on their coin, than
the head of presidents."     - George Washington
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Sounds like a flea market dealer I know.  When asked for his best price on a
$10 plate, he came back with $6, and the customer offered $4.  The customer
all but insisted that since he was willing to take $6, he shouldn't have any
trouble cutting a couple dollars more off the price.

Finally, the dealer picked up the plate and broke it on the table.  The
customer was outraged and said "I would have paid $6, why did you bust it?"

The dealer calmly explained that he was now willing to sell it for $4.

The dealer said he felt the loss of the $1 he had in the plate was worth it
if it made an impression on the customer.  Dealers are trying to make a
living, too.  That $2 difference repeated 100 times a show is a sizable
chunk out of the guy's income.  The $2 once to the collector isn't gonna
matter that much.

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