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- From: lim@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
- Newsgroups: rec.collecting
- Subject: Re: COINS: Telemarketers
- Message-ID: <20567@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:25:56 GMT
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- In article <1h544sINNavt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin) writes:
- >
- >The one thing I can't understand is why he wants to sell these rare coins,
- >if they are so much better an investment or an asset than any stocks
- >or bonds or cash money... If you believe what he says, it means that
- >he loses vast amounts of future wealth every time he sells one of them... :-)
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- I think he's more interested in being rich now, rather than the future.
- Dealers probably make around 50% on sales, certainly no less than 30%.
- I'm not necessarily saying this is unfair. They do have to make a living.
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