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POLL: Do any members have a coin dealer that you trust?

mikebombsmikebombs Posts: 224
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If no - how many bad experiences have you had?

If yes - how many years before you found one?
How long have you been dealing with them?
Are you loyal?
finally give me the dealer phone number papapapapleaze!

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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not in my one horse town. Count yourself lucky if you have local coin dealers to visit.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, I do.

    It depends a lot on your personality and what you intend to collect. If you are looking for MS-70 SAEs, proof IHCs, or AU $3's, there would be a different to your question.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If you are looking for MS-70 SAEs, proof IHCs, or AU $3's >>



    What if I'm not looking for any of those?

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What if I'm not looking for any of those?

    Just examples. As they say in the used car business, there's a seat for every a55.

    Now, stop nitpicking me, and teach me how to screen an ebay seller's feedback for the negs. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mikebombs.

    Good question.

    What are you collecting?

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Do any members have a coin dealer that you trust? >>



    imageimageimageimageimage

    OK sorry, seriously I'll need to think about it some more and get back with you.image
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it took a lot of looking around, but the more I deal with him the more I like him and realize he's a pretty straight shooter.
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    Yes, absolutely!

    In Houston there are quite few to choose from, experience has taught me there is one guy who is several cuts above the rest.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • khungus1970khungus1970 Posts: 5


    << <i>Not in my one horse town. Count yourself lucky if you have local coin dealers to visit. >>



    Amen. I have to travel 30 min and there's still no one I can trust.
  • mikebombsmikebombs Posts: 224
    But I am not talking about the local coin store. I’m asking about the guys you talk to on the phone and probably never meet. A dealer that is smart enough to realize the long term profit potential of a satisfied client.
    Does this person exist? Someone that is looking out for you and themselves. I would think by looking out for the customer they are looking out for themselves. I have been collecting for 14 months, and have dealt with super slime balls. All of you have too, but it should not be this way.

    That’s it; I am going to start a company that wants to make a buck with you not of you. Who has a few mill to back me?
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I’m asking about the guys you talk to on the phone and probably never meet. A dealer that is smart enough to realize the long term profit potential of a satisfied client. Does this person exist?

    Yes, most definitely.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • weresteveweresteve Posts: 1,224 ✭


    << <i>Not in my one horse town. Count yourself lucky if you have local coin dealers to visit. >>



    Ditto ... except I live in a five horse town. In my case it would be about a two and a half hour drive to either of the dealers that I routinely purchase coins from were it not for the local monthly coin show. Of the ones locally that "seem" trustworthy ... my budget is not up to the levels of excellence and quality that they usually deal in. Oh well ... I still have the opportunity to hit two coin shows in March before the ANA Money Show arrives in April. Hopefully PCGS will show up there as I have a couple of Morgans that need to be reholdered in order to fix my registry set and their pop reports.

    As for the dealers ... search the PCGS "Authorized Dealer" list for Midwest Rare Coins and Oakwood.

    Steve
    1st You Suck - 04/07/05 - Thanks MadMarty!

    Happy Rock Wrens

    You're having delusions of grandeur again. - Susan Ivanova
    Well, if you're gonna have delusions, may as well go for the really satisfying ones. - Marcus Cole
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,148 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I’m asking about the guys you talk to on the phone and probably never meet. A dealer that is smart enough to realize the long term profit potential of a satisfied client. Does this person exist?

    Yes, most definitely. >>

    I'll give a plug to someone who fits the bill--Mark Feld. Regarding how long it took to find him, well, I wasn't exactly looking, but he took on a want list for a toned proof indian head cent... and he knew my budget was low. And although it took around 8 months, he found the perfect coin. And when I wanted an MS large cent, he did it again.

    I wouldn't say I'm loyal, but I will say that I wholeheartedly trust his opinion, and know that he'll look out for me--I've run many things by his eye, and his help has been an invaluable service to me. Thanks, Mark image

    Jeremy
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • techefftecheff Posts: 2,285
    I'll give a plug to someone who fits the bill--Mark Feld. Regarding how long it took to find him, well, I wasn't exactly looking, but he took on a want list for a toned proof indian head cent... and he knew my budget was low. And although it took around 8 months, he found the perfect coin. And when I wanted an MS large cent, he did it again.

    I agree, Mark is a great guy to deal with. Check out his web site and I would recommend getting on his mailing list.
    image
  • mikebombsmikebombs Posts: 224
    Another forum member Michael put me on to Feld and his website today. this poll came from an situation Michael was helping me with. All of us have been screwed. Some people get screwed before they even get to give the hobby a chance.

    For the bad guys to make all this effort means there is a whole bunch of money in this game. how come the good guys are not visible?
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>For the bad guys to make all this effort means there is a whole bunch of money in this game. how come the good guys are not visible? >>



    The good guys are multifold and very visible, especially around here.

    Ask about what you're interested in, and the folks here will guide you straight. Michael and Mark Feld are certainly two people right off the top you can trust.

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • mikebombsmikebombs Posts: 224
    The good guys are multifold and very visible, especially around here.
    Ask about what you're interested in, and the folks here will guide you straight. Michael and Mark Feld are certainly two people right off the top you can trust.

    100%
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,652 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    I wouldn't say I'm loyal, but I will say that I wholeheartedly trust his opinion, and know that he'll look out for me--I've run many things by his eye, and his help has been an invaluable service to me.
    >>




    I have two guys about whom I could make almost the exact statement as Jeremy: Bill Affanato of A&N Enterprises and Lou Pearlman of LBP Numismatics. Theirs are the first two tables I stop at when I hit a show and have money to spend, and they are the last two tables I stop at to compare notes & finds on the way out. I just wish either of them were online so I could steer more business to them.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • NeptuneNeptune Posts: 2,221
    no - not in this horsetown either.

  • RADRAD Posts: 287
    Not a dealer, but an auction house----Heritage has always been very honest, professional and eager to treat it's clients right (contrary to a couple of threads here.....). As a kid, many years ago, I learned about collecting from a dealer near Binghamton, NY who I would highly recommend....or maybe he just hated to take advantage of a kid with a couple of bucks to spend!!! I can't honestly remember the name of the company, but as of a couple of years ago, the shop was still there (Main Street in Johnson City, NY)!!!
    RAD
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    imagewww.pinnacle-rarities.comimage


    www.markfeldcoins.comimage
  • NewmismatistNewmismatist Posts: 1,802 ✭✭
    Most dealers that I deal with are very fair and trust worthy - I think it helps if you know something about coins. image
    Collecting eye-appealing Proof and MS Indian Head Cents, 1858 Flying Eagle and IHC patterns and beautiful toned coins.

    “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
    Newmismatist
  • LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    image I have purchased coins from quite a few members who post here regularly and highly recommend all of them. I havent been disappointed yet!!! Some are Dealers and some just fellow collector's like me. They are:

    goose3, Russ, braddick, FC57coins, Baley, jbsteven, Mark Feld, TUMUSS, and wondercoin.


    Sorry if I missed anyone! Lee
  • TerrapinWillTerrapinWill Posts: 848
    This is a great topic......does anyone on the CU live in or around Buffalo, NY????
    If so, does anyone know of good dealer, trustworthy, in that area?Text

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