Prices/Value Discussion.

[Lapa]

Another issue. Talking about expensive awards. I would prefer to buy rare and expensive awards from a reputable dealer instead of buying ot on eBay or somewhere else. In this case I am ready to pay more, but be sure that I did not buy fake. How many reputable dealers do you know? 3-4-5 - who have rare orders / medals? We have a monopoly here, which gives the dealer an opportunity to raise the price.

Eric,
That is until such a point where they push beyond their clients' limits, whether actual (financial) or psychological. You said earlier that they need to move their inventory; I can't agree more wholeheatedly with you on that point, yet it was also mentioned that they keep raising prices on orders they have held for a couple of years. That is pretty slow inventory turnover in my book.
Bottom line is, if dealers do not sell, they cannot buy (and probably will also have some down to earth problems, such as paying for their bills). If they don't buy, they loose their possibility to generate income. Once again, this cannot be perpetual increase trend.

Marc