Ever get angry at a dealer who won't sell you a coin from his personal collection?
SethChandler
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Would you rather that they don't even show the the coin?
Local guy won't part with a beautifully toned 1878-CC Morgan. I know I've offered way more than what it is worth, but he just won't let it go. Alwayshe says, let me think about it, maybe next time, blah, blah. Great strategy to sell coins, right? Every time I leave his shop, I mutter to myself, I gonna get that coin. And you know what, the coin really isn't that great, just I can't have it, makes me want it more.
I got an idea, maybe I should bring in 10 nice coins from my collection that I want to sell and just present them to the dealer and say under no circumstances are these coins for sale! Maybe we can swap coins that aren't for sale?
Seth
Local guy won't part with a beautifully toned 1878-CC Morgan. I know I've offered way more than what it is worth, but he just won't let it go. Alwayshe says, let me think about it, maybe next time, blah, blah. Great strategy to sell coins, right? Every time I leave his shop, I mutter to myself, I gonna get that coin. And you know what, the coin really isn't that great, just I can't have it, makes me want it more.
I got an idea, maybe I should bring in 10 nice coins from my collection that I want to sell and just present them to the dealer and say under no circumstances are these coins for sale! Maybe we can swap coins that aren't for sale?
Seth
Collecting since 1976.
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displaying it in his case, so I wasn't angry. (He mentioned he had one when I asked him
if he had one of the coins I was looking for) If a dealer is displaying it, it would be more
annoying if it wasn't for sale.
siliconvalleycoins.com
That dealer should have told you that the coins in his personal collection came from his great grand ma' ma' and that her ghost would spook any future owner if they did not stay in his family. That would spook you and anyone else out of any anger!
All the best (Dave Bower's favorite sign off)!
In fact it just happened at the ANA I had a CC doller not for sale not in a case just behind the table to show what a fire can do to a GSA case and the money just keep comming I didn't want to rip off the person and I did enjoy owning the dollar but chose to let it go when I saw he really wanted the dollar and I didn't really need it but again if it was one of my registry set dimes NO ONE would offer enough to get me to part with my dimes and that's that case closed.
As one dealer told me, I would be in competition with my own clients.
What they usually collect, are unusual items such as Civil War trading tokens,
campaign buttons ect, ect. Nothing wrong with a dealer collecting Barbers, seated Liberties
ect, except when it comes to light, it tends to anger more clients then it delights.
Camelot
heh, heh, heh - made you think, Stewart!
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
Oh my, should I be angry I can't get his house on 5 acres? Or his farm of 150 acres that everyone salivates over to build all kinds of homes?
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Collectors do it too - like walking around to every show with the same box of primo material "for sale" who are just tire kicking and not really interested in selling.
But it is a little bit worse when a dealer does it, because when you go to a show, you have an expectation that everything in the case is for sale, unless clearly marked otherwise.
A certain dealer of specialty material showed me a very, very, very primo box of stuff awhile back, that he had been putting away for a long time, and then told me when I was done salivating that it wasn't for sale. I was not pleased
It sort of irks me, when I show someone my coins and the first thing they want to do is cherry pick it and buy my best coins
from my collection. Then they get pissed off at me when i won't sell them the coins.
Then they go off and start bad mouthing about me in public.
So now i am all pissed off.
I am a collector not a dealer. Every now and then i sell off coins i don't want or after upgrading something.
Just because I would like to show off something I have doesn't mean I am going to sell it right off the bat.
i want to enjoy it for a while, maybe a very mong while.
I agree with you... don't show me a coin that you wouldn't accept crazy money for...
One dealer once showed a U.S. Mint 1938 First Day of Release Jefferson Nickel in a blue card stock. The coin was nice with, IMHO, full 1938 steps on the reverse. The only "problem" (yes, there is sarcasm there) with the coin was that the mint had put the coin in the pristine holder with a small tab on the obverse which was still sealed (which gave the coin a tab toning effect) and I couldn't tell if it was a P or D mint coin on the reverse. I offered him crazy money for it... and still dream about it. Have you ever seen a Jefferson Nickel with Tab Toning?
BTW... anyone with a card like this, pm me!
Another dealer recently showed me a raw 1940 Proof Cameo Jefferson in his personal collection that rivals the look of the 42 next to my name on the left... I'm still trying to get that coin.
Happy Hunting!
Steve
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