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So did I tell you about the time that I was at this big coin show walking the bourse, just going fro

When I walk up to this display case and there is a $20 gold liberty in a PCGS holder, laying on top of the glass, like someone had looked at it and then set it back down. I look up and the dealer is engaged in a conversation with his back to me. All the while people are shuffling around the booth. I picked up the coin, not that I had any interest in it but to keep someone from just grabbing it.
I finally got the dealers attention and kindly told her that I found the coin sitting on the glass. She gave me kind of an annoying look and put the coin back. I never really understood what happened there, It's almost like she was aggravated that I pointed it out. I'm not leaving out any details, that is exactly what happened - was I in some way out of line for assuming that someone might take the coin?

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,640 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No good deed goes unpunished.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Thats why I stay away from shows.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unfortunately there is at least one dealer at every show that acts like a jerk. You did nothing wrong and what happened to you is perfectly normal.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • I suspect the dirty look was more due to her embarrassment at having been caught being an idiot. She was taking it out on you. She's lucky you came by and not someone with sticky fingers.
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Was it Laura? If so, annoying look is SOP image
  • Lucky it was you that came along. Otherwise someone was walking out heavy,
  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭


    << <i>Was it Laura? >>





    not possible, seeing as the coin was obviously a WIDGET.........
  • numobrinumobri Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭


    I would have atleast said Thank You and I'm not even a dealer,your a good man.


    Brian
    NUMO
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    When Laura shows you a coin, she grabs hold of your ears

    till you return the coin. Can get kinda painful if you got big

    ears.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't inject yourself into dealer's bad business practices.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • Thanks for the responses, I'm not as much of a goody two shoes as it sounds like - I just try to do the right thing. But her reaction was strange, maybe she had something else on her mind.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some people can be real idiots. She should have thanked you for your honesty, but... all too many people are just jerks.
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good kharma comes to people like you.image

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