DPRK Prices "How Much To Pay".

[CtahhR]

Like I've said... "Middle man". I paid $200 for my Order Of Freedom And Independence 1st Class and on that page it's $6000, I could offer mine for sale at $6000 too but that doesn't mean that is a fair price for it. On average the prices on the site are 1000% the market value. If you shop around you will soon see this site is VASTLY overpriced on DPRK items. On everyone's favourite auction site I saw a Soviet made, cased Order of the National Flag 1st Class sell for a few dollars over $200 earlier this year - A fair price considering it had it's original case etc. on that site they want $6500 for one, once again not a fair price. If someone was willing to pay the prices there for my DPRK items I'd sell them all immediately as a job lot and buy up ten times as much direct from the Yalu river in person. Their Hero Of Labour is a type 2 and they want $2400 for it, Mine is a type 1 and I paid $324 delivered. Am I living in some fantasy world or are they? I wonder.... Just think how much money I've blown through if I've been paying those prices for the items attached to that display. Isn't it most likely I've been paying the prices I've stated? and if I can pay them anyone can.

As I have also said you will get the best deals "round back", many dealers do not like to "discredit" their name by overtly offering DPRK items for sale. Seek and ye shall find!

The prices on that site remind me of a Jamaican woman from Kingston who was on Antiques Roadshow a long time ago, She had this teapot wrapped up and was saying how she had never seen one before and how it was the only one on the island of Jamaica and it was so rare and valuable and the expert just said "Yorkshire Teapot - everyone in England has one - $10 Jamaican" and the woman was heartbroken. Just because something is unfamiliar doesn't make it rare or valuable.

When the situation in the Korean peninsula changes and not only does their market open up but the Chinese dealers open up their vast reserves of DPRK items you will be VERY familiar with DPRK items haemorrhaging onto the markets. Time will tell.