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Coin dealers are like drug dealers because...

lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
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1. We have gram scales like they do.

2. We often have little miniature plastic bags. (When buying large quantities of them in the craft store, I've often wondered if they think I'm a crack dealer).

3. We deal in small, often highly-priced commodities.

4. Our most avid customers have sometimes completely lost their senses.

There it is. Random musing for the day. Sorry it wasn't more profound.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh, yeah.

    5. It ain't just the customers- sometimes we ourselves have lost our senses.

    6. Almost as many coin dealers as drug dealers own and carry guns. (I seem to be an exception, but both professions have to watch out)

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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    I've never seen a coin dealer or collector snort a coin, but then I guess it could happen.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've never snorted a coin, but I've joked about it at the post office when the clerk asks me if the package contents are potentially hazardous.

    "Yeah, I suppose, if you shove 'em up your nose or fire them out of a cannon," I say. Or some other nugget of wit.

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  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭
    ..........Because they both cator to addicts, partake in criminal activity and neither pay income tax's !
  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,353 ✭✭✭✭✭
    lordmarcovan, Is there a 10 step program for Coin Addicts? I could probably use a support group. By the way, you are full of "nuggets of wit" , aren't you? Goin' Golfin, Shag
  • PLEPLE Posts: 193 ✭✭
    Wow. Comparing Coin Dealers with Drug Dealers. That's a real insult to drug dealers!
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've never seen a coin dealer or collector snort a coin, but then I guess it could happen. >>



    My little brother got a peanut stuck in his nose once...but not a coin.image
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,402 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've never seen a coin dealer or collector snort a coin, but then I guess it could happen. >>



    ya gotta grind em up in a blender first.image
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've never seen a coin dealer or collector snort a coin, but then I guess it could happen. >>



    There are many "other" way to ingest something that will release endorphins in the brain for that "good feeling" which makes us go back for more and more until all reasonable and sensible control has been lost!
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
    IMO coin dealers are like car dealers cuz both can follow you into a revolving door and come out ahead of you.
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  • RoadgoldRoadgold Posts: 81


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    << <i>I've never seen a coin dealer or collector snort a coin, but then I guess it could happen. >>



    There are many "other" way to ingest something that will release endorphins in the brain for that "good feeling" which makes us go back for more and more until all reasonable and sensible control has been lost! >>




    I prefer to roll my coins.
    Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... but it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very apt analogy LordM.... Cheers, RickO
  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
    7. Most are complete jerks, without a shred of customer service skills, but you'll keep coming back anyway because you're addicted.
  • atom48coinatom48coin Posts: 314
    Great analogies!! image
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin dealers are a breed unto themselves, and to cause the comparison of the street thug crack dealer to the hawaiian print-rob'd denizen of the bourse is a not-so-subtle broadside to the purveyor of chemical happiness. Respectfully and w/o malice, BBE.

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  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    .............they all drive Escalades or Country Squire wagons----------------------------BigE
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  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭
    they always say their product is the best!!
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Do you think that drug dealers could take any cues from the coin world?

    Could they use something that indicates a good solid quality product?

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  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pssst, Hey Bud, you wanna buy a box of half cents? C'mere, we'll do the deal behind this dumpster before the cops see us....I swear, it's good stuff from this guy in Columbia...
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  • commoncents123commoncents123 Posts: 2,648 ✭


    << <i>I've never seen a coin dealer or collector snort a coin, but then I guess it could happen. >>



    I actually smelled a coin once...does that count?
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    8. It is bad business for dealers to get hooked on their own product.

    9. The customer gets a serious jones for the product if it has been too long since his last fix.

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  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭


    << <i>Do you think that drug dealers could take any cues from the coin world?

    Could they use something that indicates a good solid quality product?

    image >>





    ..........give this guy the cigar !
  • RNCHSNRNCHSN Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
    I hope they don't develope an effective 10-step program. I need the customers!
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  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    Cause they try to get kids hooked.
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Kids used to be very attracted to coins. It was definitely the numismatic item of choice.

    Seems like today, they are more interested in paper currency. image
  • TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,233 ✭✭✭
    Yeah- I was gonna say they hand out free samples to kids.
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  • GreeniejrGreeniejr Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭
    They will sell you a nickel or even a dime if it strikes your fancy
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>7. Most are complete jerks, without a shred of customer service skills, but you'll keep coming back anyway because you're addicted. >>



    image

    Sad but largely true.




    And image @ adamlaneus.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yeah- I was gonna say they hand out free samples to kids. >>



    Yup. Definitely #8, there.

    #9. Both like "bling", as hinted at previously.


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  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭
    they sell you their soul

    ...then they dance with the devil

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