What is the Stupidest Thing You've Heard At A Coin Show?

foodude

Okay, there is a thread entitled "Some of the Stupidest Comments Coin Dealers Have Made to me in the Past"
Link and of course dealers are a funny bunch (I recently joinly the part-time ranks, but hopefully I haven't said anything stupid; okay I do collect Franklins so ...). Anyway, let's open it up to the funniest things you've heard at shows, and there is no need to point fingers at who, be it dealer or otherwise, we just want to laugh

BigD5

"I only collect high quality coins, but I don't pay over Greysheet"

darktone

"I left those at the shop" when he does not have what I am looking for but changes his story about having them when I say I will drive the hundred miles to his shop to see the coins. mike

LucyBop

some genius brainiac dealer told me I couldn't afford a coin that I asked to see.......

MadMarty

You have to love it when collectors are proud of the AGC and NTC slabs they just "Stole" from a dealer at 10 % less then sheet!!!

kranky

While working at a dealer's table...

Customer: I'm working on a Mercury dime set. I have everything but the 16-D, all AU or uncirculated. I have them in an album.
kranky: Sounds like a beautiful set. Are you going to crack out the 16-D when you get one to put it in the album?
Customer: I don't buy them in slabs.
kranky: Yeah, but so many 16-Ds are fake, you almost have to buy one in a slab just to be sure it's genuine.
Customer: That's what you dealers say just so you can sell them for more money. I've never heard of a fake 16-D. And I've saved a lot of money not paying for those slabs.

dorkkarl

"only buy slabs"

K S

AmericanSilverEagleCoins

"Those aren't my coins. I'm only selling them for a friend" meaning he won't negotiate on a price

nwcs

I don't hear too many stupid things, but one I'll never forget was when I was looking at a dealer's inventory and he flat out said that if I shined up those XF coins they would be BU.

MacCoin

not lisening to a PCGS dealer about a lovely BU barber quarter with a cool die crack along the ribbin a BU SLQ and VF 21 peace dollar. He looked at the coins at arms length for less than a second and said F__k no I won't submit them for you they are cleaned.

I'm now thinking what a rude SOB he don't have a clue what he's talking about. So I submitted them myself and they came back cleaned.

the good side is I took them back to the dealer I bought from in the pcgs flip with the cleaned sticker on it and he refunded me what I paid for the coins.

MRK

A couple things from the recent FUN show.

I was in the restroom washing my hands and a guy was at the sink next to me with a bag full of coins he was cleaning. When he reached in the bag to clean his next coin, the bag fell off the ledge of the sink and the cussing began. Yep, right down the drain. Now, when I go to coin shows, I'll be sure to have some plumbing supplies in the briefcase.

On the floor while looking at a dealers case:
Customer "How much for this coin?"
Dealer "$30,000"
Customer "I don't think so, that scratch is too big."
Dealer "No problem, I'll just refrost it and the scratch will disappear."
Customer "O.K., I'll take it."

agentjim007

Dealer told me how much he paid but didn't remember he bought it from me.