Why coin dealers drink...Part CCCCXXIV

AMRC

This is an actual text exchange. I tried to type it verbatim including grammar.

Him: Hello how much would you pay for a 1941 dime,1920 silver half dollar, and year unknown but very old indian head w/buffalo back silver nickel?

Me: The dime is worth about a $1.20, and the half is about $6.00. The nickel is just a nickel if you cannot read the date.

Him: That's is not correct. I am also a coin collector. Thank you for your time I'll take my business elsewhere the coin shop wants to give me $500 for the dime .. as for the others I have to go take them back here tomorrow thank you for your time and have a good night.

Me: I have a few very nice 1941 dimes. Could you help me sell them? I would give you a nice fee.

Him: Go to a coin shop

Him: I no longer collect them I have a daughter on the way so I'm not buying anymore coins.

kaz

reality is so much stranger than fiction.

MGLICKER

This forum needs a twelve step program.

CaptHenway

<< <i>This forum needs a twelve step program. >>



On a ten-step pier!

Tookybandit

Dealing with the general public is so frustrating! People can become downright belligerent when they hear an answer that does not please them.

Cameonut

The really sad thing is that most of these clueless morons vote.

MGLICKER

<< <i>The really sad thing is that most of these clueless morons vote. >>

Coinosaurus

So I had this 1942/1 dime in Unc, and my pregnant wife told me if I don't get off my butt and sell some coins to help the family it's gonna be splitsville. I really DO NOT want to sell the coin, so I called the local coin store and played dumb just to see how much they would try to rip me off. I threw in a couple other coins just to further confuse them. Wife doesn't know squat about coins, so even though the whole thing was on speakerphone she is clueless. The local coin guy doesn't score much higher.

yosclimber

<< <i>Me: I have a few very nice 1941 dimes. Could you help me sell them? I would give you a nice fee. >>


Good work on calling his bluff.

Clueless is understandable, but bluffing should not involve outright lying.
Amazing he was polite, though.

AMRC

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<< <i>Me: I have a few very nice 1941 dimes. Could you help me sell them? I would give you a nice fee. >>


Good work on calling his bluff.

Clueless is understandable, but bluffing should not involve outright lying.
Amazing he was polite, though. >>



I do have several very nice Unc coins that I would gladly sell for hundreds less. I never bluff.

Mission16

<< <i>The really sad thing is that most of these clueless morons vote. >>




If you stop to think about it, we ALL are clueless morons. Just because one doesn't know the value of a coin doesn't mean they don't know something of usefullness that YOU have no clue about.
So maybe it is YOU who should not vote.

originalisbest

<< <i>So I had this 1942/1 dime in Unc, and my pregnant wife told me if I don't get off my butt and sell some coins to help the family it's gonna be splitsville. I really DO NOT want to sell the coin, so I called the local coin store and played dumb just to see how much they would try to rip me off. I threw in a couple other coins just to further confuse them. Wife doesn't know squat about coins, so even though the whole thing was on speakerphone she is clueless. The local coin guy doesn't score much higher.

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Now this was funny! LOL

segoja

<< <i>The really sad thing is that most of these clueless morons vote. >>



Well put Cameonut!!!

Treashunt

<< <i>This forum needs a twelve step program. >>



or at least that seller needs one.

Or a reality check

garrynot

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<< <i>So I had this 1942/1 dime in Unc, and my pregnant wife told me if I don't get off my butt and sell some coins to help the family it's gonna be splitsville. I really DO NOT want to sell the coin, so I called the local coin store and played dumb just to see how much they would try to rip me off. I threw in a couple other coins just to further confuse them. Wife doesn't know squat about coins, so even though the whole thing was on speakerphone she is clueless. The local coin guy doesn't score much higher.

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Now this was funny! LOL >>



That is a funny variation of the story. The 1942/1 dime would look like a '42 dime at first glance. I don't think anyone would pick up on a possible over date based on a verbal description of a '41 dime.

leothelyon

Me: Well lookie here, I have one of those too. What luck! Tell you what, I'll sell you mine for $20 and than you will have two coins worth a thousand bucks! What do you say? Is it a deal?

CaptHenway

<< <i>Me: Well lookie here, I have one of those too. What luck! Tell you what, I'll sell you mine for $20 and than you will have two coins worth a thousand bucks! What do you say? Is it a deal? >>



Yeah, many's the time I had those blankety-blank liars in the store saying that so-and-so offered them big bucks for their common coin, but when I offered to sell them another at our vastly lower retail price they never bought one.

TwoSides2aCoin

Have a drink

I will toast to that AMRC. If I didn't know better, I'd swear you bugged my phone and are relaying the information.

leothelyon

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<< <i>Me: Well lookie here, I have one of those too. What luck! Tell you what, I'll sell you mine for $20 and than you will have two coins worth a thousand bucks! What do you say? Is it a deal? >>



Yeah, many's the time I had those blankety-blank liars in the store saying that so-and-so offered them big bucks for their common coin, but when I offered to sell them another at our vastly lower retail price they never bought one. >>




Me: Smile! You're on candid camera (as you point to your security camera) soon to be seen on ATV's most funniest videos!

yosclimber

<< <i>I do have several very nice Unc coins that I would gladly sell for hundreds less. I never bluff. >>


Right.
I meant his bluff, where he claimed that a coin shop was going to buy his coin for $500.