Post your annoying collector stories!!!

vam44

Just to give equal time.

ONE of mine is when a collector buys a coin off me and kinda expects an implied lifetime guarantee as to the grade I or the slabbing company assigned to it.
BUT, when I sell a coin and the collector gets it slabbed at a higher grade or sells it at a higher grade(Big Buck$), he/she never comes back to give me my share of the booty. After all, it`s the right thing to do.

PTVETTER

some collectors want the dealer to pay them to take the coin and then they still wouldn't be happy

IrishMike

Here's my best one. I put up for sale a really nice proof 66 1938 merc on ebay. So nice I am thinking that I should send it back to PCGS for a possible upgrade. It's in an old PCGS holder to boot, but I am thinking that maybe I am overgrading the coin because I like it so much. It sells for a nice price, and the buyer emails me afterwards wanting to know what my return policy is. I have none stated in my auction, this is a really nice coin so I not worried about it being returned. So I tell him send it back if you aren't satisfied. So two weeks later it shows up at the post office with a note, please refund my money, coin is overgraded. I send him a check. A couple of months later I take it to a show, a dealer that buys mercs, offered to immediately buy if from me for what I had sold it on ebay for. I smiled at him as he counted out the cash and said you dog you think it will upgrade. Long story short, a couple of months later I saw the coin in his case, yep PCGS proof 67. I got the cert number emailed it to the buyer who had returned it to me, said tough luck on your part I decided to resubmit coin, here is the cert number, go look it up.

fcloud

Mike, nice story!

About 1979 I had to sell (almost) my entire collection. I was insulted by my local dealer whom, wanted only to pick out the rare, key and semi-key coins. I would not break-up the sets. I had every cent from 1857 to date, every dime from 1916 to date, a complete set of 2¢ pieces, complete set of walkers, Franklins, Kennedys, etc, etc. I simply would not budge on breaking the sets. I found another dealer about 30 miles away in a larger city, and was offered a fair price on everything. I was even give extra because the sets were complete and the dealer said the sets sell very quickly. One of the favorites I sold was a RED 1909-S Unc Indian. I sure was glad I didn't break those sets.

You do what you have to do, but there is no reason to be taken because you need the funds!

MastaHanky

My local dealer will do free layaway for an unlimited amount of time, just as long as you come in semi-regularly and make some kind of payment. He says he can't stand the one or two customers who put $1000-$2000 worth of coins on layaway, and pays like $60 once a year. I'm sure he was exaggerating slightly, but it must be frusterating having those type of customers who pay very little just one or twice a year, when the dealer could be moving the coin much faster.

vam44

C`mon dealers, fess up!

ANOTHER one of mine is when a collector at the local show SMUGLY says: "It`ll be here at the next show." 9 out of 10 times it isn`t.

My coins are there to sell, PTVETTER runs the museum section of the show.

CharlieB

IrishMike - That is a good story and a testimonial that PCGS does
upgrade.