Is this a breach of etiquette....or......

topstuf

is it just too hard for some people to keep their mouth .... SHUT?

Scenario:

Guy goin thru a local dealer "junk box" .....Barber quarters 90% silver type....the $1-$3 kind.

Finds a 1901s. Really.

Buys it with great fanfare and crowing to the dealer for being so dumb.

Dealer is too honorable to take it back. (Which is correct, since he let it get there)

Guy tells every other dealer what a great thing he got.....and WHERE. (so the OTHER dlrs can all razz the guy)

Dealer A begins ............REALLY searching stuff now.......never gonna happen again.

(I know I did same thing when I had the shop and sumpin got by me.......SCRUTINY....for a while after that)

And the guy only buys the one coin.

Now.................my..............way ............wudda been to buy the coin and maybe 2-3 others and go home and tell the DOG what a great thing i got and then go back again an again an again.

What would YOU do?

Russ

<< <i>What would YOU do? >>



I'd have kept my mouth shut, sold the coin for an obscene profit and added this dealer to my regular visit schedule.

Russ, NCNE

Dog97

I cherrypicked a very valuable DCam Proof Franklin ½ out of a cheap Proof Set from a dealer that knows me and believe me, for those very reasons I kept my trap shut.

ksteelheader

I've picked up this kind of deal a few times. And the only people that know about it are my wife and a few board members....Ken

cladking

No body wants to hear about the coins they gave away. I'd have been
tempted to not sell the coin if the guy is crowing before he even pays
for it. It wouldn't be right, but I wouldn't blame someone for doing it.

MadMarty

<< <i>I'd have kept my mouth shut, sold the coin for an obscene profit and added this dealer to my regular visit schedule. >>



Ditto!!

Baley

I would not do what that a$s did.
I would shop there a lot more, and be pretty generous in negotiating prices with the dealer.

I'll bet that same clown would crow about the "broken" slot machine that gave him jackpots?
until the casino fixed it?

duh!

Veep

Until now only two people knew that I had found an R-7 brass Civil War Token for R-1 money in a dealer's shop. The two people are Dave Bowers and the CWTS memeber who Dave sent me to to authenticate it. The dealer will never know.

topstuf

My pyhrric victory.....

Years ago, there was a local combo Chinese laundry/coin shop.....really....
A canny old Chinese fellow and his wife and their living quarters were on the premises. I ...just knew...he had goodies, but could not pry anything out.

He had complete JUNK in the cases. One Saturday, the wife and I stopped............AGAIN...........and I told her I was gonna buy SOMETHING. So I chose a Louis Philippe French crown and said...." I'll take that coin." and paid for it.

BINGO....... Oh you like see something else maybe?
yeah, I guess.

Pan Pac half in ............ muff-hugging........PRISTINE toned orig condition. $85 !!!!!

Bought it while trying to control sphincter. Like a fool, I did not argue the price. (I'm a fish)

THEN he asked if I wanted to see some ...... MORE.

Welllllllll..............o kayyyyyy........... I spose.

You come back next week. I get from bank. What you like?
Oh....old US coins...........sorta like this one.

Went home.....50 miles away.....dint sleep for a week. Come back at appointed time.

I ....should....stop here and make you GUESS...............but I won't...

.............................................................Black wreath on door...................................................

Is dat "divine justice" er wot? DAMDAMDAMDAMDAM.

ursabear

I've had this very type of thing to find a type 2 Kennedy 1981, about PR68DCAM. Paid $8.00 for the set.

I did return to purchase more things from them at their asking price to say "thank you" for helping me make a few pesetas for my family. I didn't rub it in their face.

ursabear

P.S. I did have a fellow ship me a coin that was actually much more valuable than the one I purchased (he didn't know the value). I emailed him and told him I'd be glad to return it or pay him a reasonable difference.

He was happy that I even bothered to mention it - he just told me to keep it at the price we'd negotiated (he had not paid big money for it).

keets

.........and i think the ultimate in retribution is to cherrypick someone who takes great pride in their own ability to cherrypick others and not get cherried themselves!!! it takes restraint to keep quiet, and i have succeeded to that length thus far. i'm now commencing to shut-up..........

al h.

khayse

What 1901s barber quarter? Nope didn't find nothing here.

-Khayse

airplanenut

I once purchased a lot of coins for around $10, and made well over $30 reselling them... I've gotten more from that dealer, and I've never argued a price... nor have I told him what he's been missing.

Jeremy

Mrpawn

My "former" favorite coin dealer had a rather vast inventory. Some of which he had aquired some 15+ years ago and some of these still were marked with those prices. It took time and diligence and I had to be ahead of his helper but I found many good buys by looking through his behind the counter stock. Nothing spetacular just 20-40 dollar coins for $1 - $5. Cheap enough to escape the radar. No keys, but some semi-keys that work well in some of my and the grandson's type sets. I know that I spent many hours looking over his inventory and still did not examine all of it before he was abruptly removed from business.

TWODOGS

The coin dealer that I've dealt with for years sold me that 1972-S Proof Set that had the clashed dime I posted the pic of here a while back. He sold me the set for $5.00, even after I pointed the dime out to him. It sold on ebay for $172. I went back and gave him $30. I barely ever tell him about my successes, though.

Russ

<< <i>and i think the ultimate in retribution is to cherrypick someone who takes great pride in their own ability to cherrypick >>



About six months ago I was at the little dinky show here in my town doing my usual digging through 1964 proof sets. There's one dealer that is always at this show that Dan and I call "bald pony tail". I ask him to look at his sets and he tells me "sure, but I always go through them and take the good coins, including the cameos and Accented Hairs."

I bought two sets with AHs from him that day, one of which is a 67CAM.

Russ, NCNE

cherrypickincoin

I haven't quite struck a find that significant but at the February Long Beach show there was a dealer that had a book of Lincoln Cents. I was preparing to leave the venue when I noticed he had a 1909-S VDB in a 2x2 with big letters saying COUNTERFEIT across the top. I looked at it and figured that the mintmark was in the proper position and the VDB looked right to me so I purchased the coin for just $60 without telling the dealer a word and I took it on over to ANACS. It came back to me four weeks later with a grade of EF40, no problems. The point is, don't always listen to what a dealer says and to dealers out there, don't always assume that what another dealer gives you or what a consignor gives you is what it says on the mylar! It may be something totally different. I have heard of people grabbing 1889-CC's just because the dealer was too much of an idiot to take the time to look at the reverse.