Is your dealer getting more arrogant lately?

291fifth

The "hot" market seems to making some of them think they are actually important.

Barndog

Maybe bust coinage specialists are immune for I have not noticed it.

LanLord

Some dealers do, and I don't like that.

I have heard a dealer reply to a customer asking for a better price like this:
"That's my final price, if you don't buy it for that, the next guy will. It's a sellers market, I can ask anything I want and someone will be there to buy it."

I was amazed to hear that come out of his mouth. That's not my regular dealer, and with that attitude will never be more than a player to be named later as far as I'm concerned.

jdcheers

Nope! He is making ME feel more important. Telling me how much he likes the coins he has sold me in the past and how he would love to buy them back. "The market is prime to sell."

291fifth

<< <i>Nope! He is making ME feel more important. Telling me how much he likes the coins he has sold me in the past and how he would love to buy them back. "The market is prime to sell." >>



It might not be a bad time to see if he really means what he says.

mgoodm3

Nope. Doing quite nicely.

curly

The people that I deal with have always treated me with respect. I treat them with respect too....I don't hang out in front of their tables, if I ask for a better price and don't get it, I don't argue with them, it's their coin and they can charge what they want.

CaptHenway

<< <i>Nope! He is making ME feel more important. Telling me how much he likes the coins he has sold me in the past and how he would love to buy them back. "The market is prime to sell." >>



We just bought back a Bass Collection coin that we sold a guy several years ago for $38,000 for $55,000, and placed it with another collector for $60,000. Made everybody happy.
Tom D.

DHeath

My local friend told me some sweet stuff had come and gone faster than usual, and he would show me something if he and anything left. I think that's a good thing. Everybody deserves a turn.

PerryHall

The smart dealers know this bull market won't last forever and they continue to treat their customers right. The stupid ones are arrogant but collectors have a long memory.

Boom

A lot of coin dealers seem to lose sight of common courtesy. These, you politely walk away from and put on your Black List.

CaptHenway

And then there are the customers like the lawyer who just left, who spent five minutes arguing
that I should sell him silver eagles below spot because we bought them before silver went up....

BigE

Tell the lawyer you can't do it because you dont remember which ones you bought first--BigE

BigE

....or tell him that he can have the ones dated 1989 for 50.00 because thats what silver was then-----------BigE

TorinoCobra71

My dealer actually called me yesterday and asked me if I wanted a refund or a replacement coin that recently BB'd at PCGS!

Now Thats Customer Service!

TorinoCobra71

Longacre

I have not noticed any change in attitude, other than the dealer has less time to deal with the little things, because deals are flying in and out the door.

mrearlygold

The customer is not always right. But the right customer is never wrong

BillJones

Recently I picked out about 20 coins for a dealer to price. He priced them and I bought about $5,500 worth. His comment was, "You didn't hardly buy enough to make it worth my while."

This purchase was on top of about $7,500 I had spent with him in January making my total purchases for the year around $13K. Still, it was not enough.

TheNumish

"No Soup For You!!!!!"

That's a Seinfeld quote just in case you don't get it.

xphobe

Actually the opposite for me: my dealer is getting less arrogant.

I think it's because at first he just assumed I was just an idle window-shopper. He even tried to take me to the cleaners once early on, but I caught him at it (he gave me a really low offer on the 16-D Merc I was trying to sell, pointing out all its deficiencies, until I reminded him that he was the one who had sold it to me in the first place ten years ago).

But now I've been in his store enough, bought enough over the last year or so, and asked questions and Listened to his Answers, so he knows I'm serious and want to learn.

Connecticoin

<< <i>....or tell him that he can have the ones dated 1989 for 50.00 because thats what silver was then-----------BigE >>



You are off by about 10 years. But I get the point.

pontiacinf

<< <i>Recently I picked out about 20 coins for a dealer to price. He priced them and I bought about $5,500 worth. His comment was, "You didn't hardly buy enough to make it worth my while."

This purchase was on top of about $7,500 I had spent with him in January making my total purchases for the year around $13K. Still, it was not enough. >>



Bill you dont goto his shop in a mr moneybags suit, do you?

LEAP269

yesterday i went into a coin shop in town i had never visited before and asked for some help finding quality lincoln cents for my set. he threw me a bag of circulated wheat cents, said this was as good as it gets, told me i was on my own, and stepped out for 20 minutes for lunch to the next room.