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Do you plan on being a net buyer or net seller of coins in 2018?

CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I figure to sell many more than I buy.

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  • KyleKyle Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer.

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer.

    mark

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • TookybanditTookybandit Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭✭

    Seller

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer of limited mintage Mint products I can flip. B)

  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    Buyer.
    I've yet to sell anything.
    No reason to, was going to sell some gold at my pre-determined price of $1350.00, changed my mind.
    (I used to be uncertain, now I'm just not sure....!!!!)

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seller

  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seller


    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unless something legitimately rare and super PQ comes up (e.g. something I won't see for at least a decade).

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seller

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

    My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!

  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer.

    ~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
    POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
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  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 17, 2017 4:32PM

    (Original post deleted.....Never mind....I annoyed even myself). ;)

    Net buyer. I don't like selling.

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    seller...wait, no...buyer...nope...well, both because every coin I sell I have to buy first, so I guess we will see at the end of the year...All's I know for sure is i'm losing $$$ and there has never been a more fun way to lose $$$ for me...at least since I've been here on Earth ;)

  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 1,039 ✭✭

    Mostly, seller - but probably both.

  • 2ndCharter2ndCharter Posts: 1,682 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely a buyer (Well, unless a whale comes along and makes me an offer I can't refuse).

    Member ANA, SPMC, SCNA, FUN, CONECA

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 17, 2017 4:51PM

    Net seller vintage (falling market support, fewer collectors) net buyer MWG.

    Coins & Currency
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 17, 2017 4:50PM

    The net seems to be about the best way to buy and sell coins these days.

    theknowitalltroll;
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neutral.

    As a dealer I need to buy and sell while making a profit and/or increasing inventory.

  • ironmanl63ironmanl63 Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Neutral.

    As a dealer I need to buy and sell while making a profit and/or increasing inventory.

    If the slide continues dealers may have to trim inventories to pay the creditors.

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Neutral.

    As a dealer I need to buy and sell while making a profit and/or increasing inventory.

    If the slide continues dealers may have to trim inventories to pay the creditors.

    The market is showing some signs of improving. If that reverses and the previous decline continues, I predict that we will begin to see corporate bankruptcy filing from some dealers. This happened in 1990.

  • BeerockBeerock Posts: 71 ✭✭✭

    Buyer, I've never been able to part with many of my coins.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Neutral.

    As a dealer I need to buy and sell while making a profit and/or increasing inventory.

    If the slide continues dealers may have to trim inventories to pay the creditors.

    No creditors, no debt.

  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been selling for a year and will continue to sell as long as my markets remain strong.

    Indeed, I hope to increase my selling next year.

    Tempus fugit.
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @Coinstartled said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Neutral.

    As a dealer I need to buy and sell while making a profit and/or increasing inventory.

    If the slide continues dealers may have to trim inventories to pay the creditors.

    No creditors, no debt.

    Very good place to be. Dealers have been known to be significantly leveraged. Rising interest rates could turn things ugly.

  • CoinCrazyPACoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭

    Buyer mostly

    Positive BST transactions: agentjim007, cohodk, CharlieC, Chrischampeon, DRG, 3 x delistamps, djdilliodon, gmherps13, jmski52, Meltdown, Mesquite, 2 x nibanny, themaster, 2 x segoja, Timbuk3, ve3rules, jom, Blackhawk, hchcoin, Relaxn, pitboss, blu62vette, Jfoot13, Jinx86, jfoot13,Ronb

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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My plan is to buy only and not sell at all.

    Donato

    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
    Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer I hope. Finding what I want in the grades that fit my collection has become almost impossible, and I am not buying anything that is close to the finest graded.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @Coinstartled said:

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Neutral.

    As a dealer I need to buy and sell while making a profit and/or increasing inventory.

    If the slide continues dealers may have to trim inventories to pay the creditors.

    No creditors, no debt.

    Very good place to be. Dealers have been known to be significantly leveraged. Rising interest rates could turn things ugly.

    I can only pray that interest rates go up. They have been at historical lows for what seems forever. Interest rates have only one way to go.....up

    mark

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These interest rates have been terrible for retirees who are living on the edge and take risks connected with the stock market. I'm not one of those people, but I understand what they are facing.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Slight net buyer. My passion for coins is still running ahead of my economic apprehensions about the future.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 17, 2017 6:35PM

    @BillJones said:
    These interest rates have been terrible for retirees who are living on the edge and take risks connected with the stock market. I'm not one of those people, but I understand what they are facing.

    Agree. Hurts retirees, savers and those with risk aversion

    m

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What hurts them is rabid inflation....but that is more of a PM forum topic.

    o:)

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Practically no Americans now living have realistic ideas on how to play a deflationary environment, so that's probably the next turn of the screw - not that that is the final chapter, not by any means.

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If I was smart I would be neutral and zero. If I was really smart I would be a seller. But apparently I'm neither and will probably add a few more to the pile...

  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer. Prices have settled down and leveled nicely. Not a deflationary spiral.

  • msch1manmsch1man Posts: 809 ✭✭✭✭

    Probably will be a net seller in terms of quantity, but a net buyer in terms of dollar value.

  • RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,117 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @msch1man said:
    Probably will be a net seller in terms of quantity, but a net buyer in terms of dollar value.

    +1

    Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 17, 2017 7:08PM

    Just bought three coins at Heritage tonight. Including a 36-s Oregon.

    Hey...we still have 2 months left in the year.

    ;)

  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,616 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Been a net buyer for 50 straight years. 2018 will be no different. Buy, buy, buy!

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • RockyMtnProspectorRockyMtnProspector Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @msch1man said:
    Probably will be a net seller in terms of quantity, but a net buyer in terms of dollar value.

    Also +1. Sell some lower value stuff to buy more upgrades, maybe expand a bit.

    GSAs, OBW rolls, Seated, Walkers. Anything old and Colorado-focused, CO nationals.



    Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
  • CoinlearnerCoinlearner Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭✭

    Likely a net seller. Maybe 1 out of 10 coins/medals I buy is a "keeper", something I don't lose interest in, or have any thoughts of selling.

  • OldIndianNutKaseOldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mostly a buyer, but I have generated a number of duplicates that I need to sell.

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Was a big seller in 2017. I’ll be a buyer in 2018, God willing.

  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭

    Buyer on my main collection.
    Seller on anything else :wink:

    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer !!! B)

    Timbuk3
  • BackroadJunkieBackroadJunkie Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Downsizing. That should mean I'm a seller. Trying like heck not to be a buyer.

    Need a ten step program.

    Step 1: Recognize there is a problem...

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 18, 2017 1:43AM

    @Justacommeman said:

    @BillJones said:
    These interest rates have been terrible for retirees who are living on the edge and take risks connected with the stock market. I'm not one of those people, but I understand what they are facing.

    Agree. Hurts retirees, savers and those with risk aversion

    m

    I don't understand. There are inflation adjusted T-bills that retirees can invest in that will hold up against inflation. Unless exceptionally wealthy, most investment planners don't recommend riskier investments anyway at that age.

  • hickoryridgehickoryridge Posts: 248 ✭✭✭

    @msch1man said:
    Probably will be a net seller in terms of quantity, but a net buyer in terms of dollar value.

    +2 if the right coins come up for sale

  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Buyer of (hopefully) many, seller of a few.

    Altho, every time that I sell I seem to regret it.

    Frank

    BHNC #203

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