Do you know who I am?

OKbustchaser

This is simply ridiculous...

TWICE at a show today dealers refused to sell 1827 halves to me. One simply removed it from his case while I was standing there waiting for him to finish talking--not selling coins--about the upcoming football season. When I asked about it he said it was hold. Okay...benefit of the doubt maybe due here.

The second dealer allowed me to look at one I was interested in but then flatly told me that if I was interested that it must be a rare Overton variety and therefore not for sale until he could check it out further. (It was a O-108 R-2.)

By the way. I didn't recognise the name of either dealer as participating on any of the forums where I am active. Am I THAT well-known?

Why doesn't this ever happen to Russ when he asks about Kennedys?

Russ

<< <i>Why doesn't this ever happen to Russ when he asks about Kennedys? >>



Actually, it does. Once I was at a show and found an unattributed Accented Hair set marked at $10. When I went to buy it the dealer looked at me, then handed it to his partner and said "check this for varieties". Suddenly the price was $20.

Russ, NCNE

ColonialCoinUnion

I've never had that problem, which suggests that I need a new PR agent.

DaveG

Gee, that hasn't happened to me either.



I must be unimportant.

Cladiator

Thank God that doesn't happen to me

mgoodm3

I have the answer to your problems.

coinkat

There is something to be said for keeping a low profile

Artist

Maybe you should consider donning a disguise...

Purple73

May I suggest..........





PURPLE!

BigE

Perhaps shooing away the long line of groupies following you would help matters--------------------------BigE

kranky

That's a behavior that baffles me about some dealers. They allegedly have coins for sale, but if they think you want one because it's an unrecognized variety, then they don't want to sell it to you. Yet they would have been happy to sell it to the previous customer at their asking price!

I have no idea how to combat that problem.

RobJoyce1921dVAMguy

I've had a dealer remove a bin of 1921 Morgans from the table because I was going to look through it. He would sell $10 morgans to random customers but if a knowledgeable buyer wanted to look for VAMs he wasn't going to be cherry picked. He didn't have any qualms about selling the polished ones in the bin to the kids who liked the "pretty shiny ones"

At least with Morgans, there are usually plenty of others to look at. With your varieties, the market is thin! I feel for you.

Rob

OKbustchaser

Thanks for the chuckles, guys. I feel a lot better about it now that I have had a chance to sit back and laugh. Besides, I did leave the show with a couple of coins from another dealer. I will try and get them scanned and posted next week.

By the way, the last time I had any groupies following me around I was a company commander of an Army basic training unit and they HAD to follow me.
Jim

Peaceman

I had one dealer at the Chicago show not let me look at a 100 coin Peace $ lot.... I even said I'd buy them all if I liked them.... he still wouldn't let me go through them. Some other dealers asked me if I was looking for varities and I told them I was....

Hobbyist

Heck, Jim. I didn't know you were so famous. If I ever get some decent bust coins, I will have to track you down for an autograph.

OKbustchaser

You got it, Stu. (opps, did I let the cat out of the bag?)

100proof1957

One word.

Bastage !

Hobbyist

<< <i>You got it, Stu. (opps, did I let the cat out of the bag?) >>



Great... Now my groupies will find me again.

Myqqy

Bastage

Bastage??

This thread just reinforces my researched opinion that dealers are kooky dudes.....

WTCG

Have you read the thread I started about stupid dealers and the stupid things they say?

What happened to you happens to almost every customer every so often. Just ignore them and mock them in your mind for a long time.