Star Trek - RCM - 2016

@wildflowerAB

I watched dealers' prices carefully and confirmed Colonial Acres, The Coin Shoppe & SGB sold prices.

As matter of fact, SGB & The Coin Shoppe raised their selling prices more than once and still soldout all.

@New1954

Talked to a dealer few days ago on other coins then talked about Delta Gold Coin.

He received hundreds of phone call, asking Delta Gold Coin without visiting his website.

Many collectors still prefer to buy from dealers instead of ebay or Craiglist, even with higher prices.

So dealer offers CAD$1,550 to buy back Delta Gold Coin and resell at CAD$1850 to its customers.
Easy money for dealers and excellent customer services for providing rare coins to eager customers.

@justsilver. Congratulations on your recent buy at a great price! Your close following of ebay prices certainly paid off.

I added to my last post that's already gone by, but dealers have the opportunity to be somewhat flexible in their pricing regardless of the listed price on their website. I've also been successful in buying a main item, but in the deal is a lesser item for free. Therefore my point is just that there can be things happening behind the scenes, aside froman item at listed price that appears to have gotten sold.

If anyone recalls, the 2016 gold Delta one day appeared around the beginning of this month at 92% sold, then sat in "awaiting stock" status for at least a week before becoming Sold Out again. But while it was "awaiting stock" RCM's webpage included a live link "Available from Dealers":

http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/custo....V9cRzOvOerU

Perhaps the largest Western dealer had more than enough redirects from RCM and they sold out without ever having to publicly advertise it for sale?

@wildflowerAB

Thank you and understood your point.

Dealer can sell A price to VIP customer and lists B price on its web store.

As matter of fact, I bought Delta Gold Coin from SGB at CAD$1,350 on Sep 6th. ( heard SGB has Delta Gold Coin on Sep 3rd )

2days later, SGB listed the coin on its website for CAD$1400. ( then soldout in one day )

One flipper was comfortable in buying over 50 Pysanka coins.

Imho, flipping numismatic coins is a very risky business.

RCM releases almost 20+ coins per month = 240+ coins per year.

Very few were doing well. Maybe 3 coins or less.

So we are talking about 1.25% success rate.

A flipper chose none except Pysanka Silver Coin and bought 50 pcs ( CAD$115 x 50 pcs = $5,750 + tax ), seems impossible.

But if a flipper chose 10 different coins ( 10 / 240 = 4.17% of total RCM coins per year ) and bought 50 pcs each, we are talking about CAD$50,000+, betting on numismatic coins.

1 coin did well and rest 9 coins depreciated a lot. Doesn't sound too good for flipper, isn't it?

No business is easy business.

lol.