how much would a Ritterkreuz cost?

**Glenn66** · 05-18-2015, 05:53 PM

Selling back to a dealer will probably lose you 50%. Dealer prices change due to multiple factors: maker, markings, rarity, condition, provenance etc etc etc...

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 05-18-2015 05:53 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Wagriff** · 05-18-2015, 06:48 PM

Collectables are almost never a good investment strategy unless you got it for Real cheap and are prepared to sit on it for decades. Better off playing the Stock Market.

**ironcross13** · 05-18-2015, 06:48 PM

really you would lose that much, not that i would ever sell my collection,
but you still want to buy at the right price, no one likes to over pay on anything, but 50% wow! the dealers are making alot of money
is it like that with most awards?

**Wagriff** · 05-18-2015, 06:57 PM

50% is reasonable. A seller has many bills and costs to cover, so he certainly can't pay much more and not lose his shirt. Rent, advertising, gasoline, utilities-they all add up. It's not a business that the average guy can just start up and look to make mucho money. Unless you're in it for the long haul and jump in Big time-like Bill Shea at the Ruptured Duck, etc-you shouldn't expect to make good profits off it any more than a coin dealer or an antique business.

**ironcross13** · 05-18-2015, 07:55 PM

i just did not realize they would make that much,
so if a Knights Cross is £10,000 they could be making as much as £5,000 thats alot really seems like prices get pushed up alot over this then
must be best to sell private

**Wagriff** · 05-18-2015, 11:26 PM

True..however, RK's do not exactly fly off their shelves. That's alot of money to have tied up in inventory for a long time. Many dealers do not want to deal in such high end items for this very reason. Selling privately, as you said, is usually a good idea in such cases.

**Glenn66** · 05-19-2015, 07:50 AM

And if a dealer gets suckered on a fake RK (does happen), that's alot of Ostmedailles he has to move to make up the loss.

**LizardKing** · 05-19-2015, 08:38 AM

by hassiman

I remember a famous photo taken a day or so after the fall of Berlin of two Soviet soldiers sitting amidst a huge pile of boxed Crosses on the steps of the Reichs Chancellory... Probably a few thousand of them of more....

I remember that pic... A loooot of them there!! I can't find it right now though...