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Posted By: jeff

and you're STILL looking for that E90-3 Gandil?

On topic, I agree with Pete here -- if you ever want very suggestive info about dealer buying practices, check out the buy prices in the back of a Kit Young catalog next time he runs a sale. If I remember right, his sale prices, contrasted with his buy prices, suggest strongly that what he buys at "vg" is sold at "vg-ex" or "ex." And so on.

And since you mention dealers when they are buying from you, let me mention my pet peeve: you offer a card for sale, and they proceed to tell you all of the defects. As if you don't know! I even get that from ebay buyers sometimes -- "I would buy your card at that price, but it's got that big crease." Well, duh! If it didn't have that big crease maybe it'd cost a lot more!

I know that it is often used as a negotiating ploy, but usually it negotiates me away from a dealer's table.

Jeff