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Re: What would you consider as average percentage premium for a Toner?

@124Spider said:
I'm with Ricko on this subject....

"Why would I pay extra for tarnish?!"

mattniss

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Re: What would you consider as average percentage premium for a Toner?

I'm with Ricko on this subject....

124Spider

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Re: Enduring Liberty 2026 Semiquincentennial Half Dollar Two-Roll Set

@smuglr said:
Also, other than the dual date, is this the new dime going forward? We know the half dollar is a one year design, with JFK returning next year, with reverse designs for the next four years I don't find desirable, as also with the new quarter designs to come.

Nope, the dime is going back to that boring old FDR unfortunately, and the JFK will at least get a makeover. I think that the 2027 quarters will be working dogs, and most look pretty good.

After 2026, at current pricing, I suspect mint sales will fall off the top of a tall building and end up in the basement.

They just went way overboard with increasing mint set prices from 33.50 to 124.50 in a year. Anyone here go back and pick up any 2021 mint sets at the new inflated price?

Old_Collector

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Re: How do you handle hagglers at shows?

@jfriedm56 said:
You’d have to be a dumb-ass if you accepted a dealer’s first offer. Never have I done that. I check prices on line, such as PCGS price guide and CAC price and pop.
It’s equivalent to purchasing a new car. Do I pay the dealer’s first quote? Absolutely not! I’m not one to lowball in a ridiculously low offer, but I expect to pay, what I believe to be a fair price. I don’t want to steal a coin, as it is usually a compromise. Sometimes I may pay price guide, sometimes more, sometimes less. We both have to feel comfortable about the sale.

Funny car story. I am handicapped and need an old school gunboat sedan for the leg room and for ease getting in and out. For this reason I have been driving a series of Mercury Grand Marquis since the late 1990's. Of course they discontinued them around 2011, but my third one was a nice low mileage used one that I got many years worth out of before it was damaged in a hailstorm. My insurance company totaled it out and wrote me a check but let me keep it, so I kept driving it for a while but started looking for another one.

One day back around 2020 I got a notice from CarFax that a dealer in my region had just gotten in a 2004 with about 42,000 miles on it. I called and asked if I could come and take a look at it and was told yes. Went there with my wife as a spare driver, took a test drive and said "How much," since they had not yet listed it with a price. The salesman I was working with said $9,000 and I said "I'll take it." They had previously told me that they would not take my old one as a trade-in since it had been totaled out.

I must have sounded too eager because the salesman said he had to go "Talk to the Manager," and he came back and said that he had given me "the wrong price" because it was the deluxe edition and the price was $11,000. I told him that he had quoted a price and that I had accepted it without making a counter offer (which I remembered from my course on Business Law in Business School) and that we had a contract. The bastiges spent half an hour trying to get me to pay more than 9, but I held my ground and bought it for 9 and then garaged it for two years till my damaged one gave up the ghost.

P.S.: It probably was worth the $11K, but because I knew NOT to dicker I got it for $9K.