"Matthew Brealey" wrote in message
Some of the dealers that maintain big websites charge a big premium,
often the price is double the true market price because it's much more
profitable to wait for somebody to pay a way-high price while listing
them at a near-zero cost, than to maintain a website that has very
high turnover.

There's nothing wrong with ATS Notes of course, they offer a nice
service to web buyers to choose from a big stock from one website, I
just think anybody can write '$100' against a $10 note on a website.

One thing that has to be understood with online and even offline dealers,
they are like supermarkets in a way. They price where they think the market
will bear, and offset for correction the items they do not specialise in or
want to move out of inventory correctly. ATS has been in business a long
time, they are both of Polish descent. So it is no secret from looking at
their site that they specialise in Polish and Central European notes, and
can price them firmly as that is where they have a strong customer base for
people looking for accurately graded notes, and scarce materiel.

Conversely they have other materiel in their listings, Latin American, even
some Canadian that they want to move more quickly, and their prices are less
than usual for Canadian note dealers. I have bought several Pacific rim
nations notes, and Canadian notes from them because their prices are great
for those items. But I have also bought European notes from them, while
their prices are a bit more than usual because I know I will be happy with
the note they send, they do not play around and call something with a corner
ripple unc or aunc, it goes to EF.

I have dealt with Pam West of Britishnotes.co.uk for quite sometime, her
prices are fairly firm, but... she sells high end materiel, and even stated
in the past that she is "Not a cheap woman"! For nice UK stuff, she excels.
She is quite fascinating in her business approach as she even links on her
site the sites of her main competitors, so you can shop around. Very
confident and classy.