02-10-2013, 09:59 PM
Paul,
I said I am buying them for that price, and I am not talking wholesale or bulk lots here either but mostly individual purchases.
The prices I quoted are based on my actual transactions and the "real" market (I have the strange feeling that I'm going to cope so serious flak over this term...). If a brainless "collector" shells out huge money on E!, or a Power Seller asks outrageous prices on the same marketplace, that does not make the market. A huge volume of transactions takes place out of the spotlight, and happens to be the real market.
Remember a few years ago when late suspension ORBs (long-service awards) were going like hotcakes for $700? Was that the real value for a piece whose issue was about 250,000 ex? I think we have a pretty good answer to that question today... bubble bubble bubble...
Marc
I said I am buying them for that price, and I am not talking wholesale or bulk lots here either but mostly individual purchases.
The prices I quoted are based on my actual transactions and the "real" market (I have the strange feeling that I'm going to cope so serious flak over this term...). If a brainless "collector" shells out huge money on E!, or a Power Seller asks outrageous prices on the same marketplace, that does not make the market. A huge volume of transactions takes place out of the spotlight, and happens to be the real market.
Remember a few years ago when late suspension ORBs (long-service awards) were going like hotcakes for $700? Was that the real value for a piece whose issue was about 250,000 ex? I think we have a pretty good answer to that question today... bubble bubble bubble...

Marc












