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Originally Posted by samosa4u
NEVER EVER EVER trade with a dealer because he will try to ROB the hell outta' you! I've had dealers try to make ten-thousand profit on our trades and it's ridiculous! Only trade with collectors!
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Dealers try for profits?!?!?!? In other news, rain is wet and the sun rises in the east.
But seriously, if you're dealing with a dealer you have to expect to get clipped. The only question is degree. Bring a box of 1970s commons to my table and you are going to get a penny a card. Bring me a 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson and you will do a lot better, percentage-wise, but there still has to be some meat on the bones to allow me a profit. Now, if you got 'robbed' by a dealer it means you were blind without a cane, my friend: you didn't do your homework, unless you were trading obscurities, in which case you both probably didn't know what might happen. As I said, uncertainty is one of the dangers of dealing in rare items. I auctioned off a rare card recently and ended up losing 75% of my cost because it was rare and I seriously overvalued it when I acquired the card years ago.