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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
That just sounds to me like dealers trying to make money buying and selling, which is what they do. I did that for years on eBay and other auctions, and did pretty well. I thought of it as bottom-feeding, and I relied on enough things falling through the cracks to make the effort worthwhile. Nothing diabolical about it, just common sense. Your antidote as a collector, of course, is to bid up to or over the item's market value, which I wouldn't' be able to compete with.
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I'm not saying it's a terrible thing, at least real time and money has to be spent. It is annoying because even collectors like to get a deal every now and then, and that is pretty much non existent now.
I much muuuuuch prefer this to an old lady bringing 100 grand in cards to a dealers booth and they buy everything for 500 bucks.