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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think a lot of folks would take you up on the challenge and most of them would be able to prove the shirt to be wrong.

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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It must be written in Mustard.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It depends on which side of the table it's being worn on.

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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Try it, and let us know how it works out.
  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    MGlicker????
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Allow me to get things rolling.


    Customer: Nice shirt, but you should have bought the next size.

    Dealer: When I bought it, it was the next size.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About the same as a "You Suck" shirt.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Allow me to get things rolling.


    Customer: Nice shirt, but you should have bought the next size.

    Dealer: When I bought it, it was the next size. >>



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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about this t-shirt slogan:

    "Give a man a coin, enrich him for a day. Teach a man to grade coins, enrich him for a lifetime."

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Last year at the Lakeland Fall show a dealer made a snide remark about the Hawaiian-style shirt I was wearing....
    I glanced in his case and briefly thought about retorting along the lines of 'yeah, but I could write a check for your whole inventory
    without breaking a sweat, except it mostly looks like junk'; but instead I just gave a little smile and moved on....


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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,398 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please discuss

    You first.........image
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some would take it as a challenge, others a joke, and still others would not even read it...Cheers, RickO
  • au58au58 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Last year at the Lakeland Fall show a dealer made a snide remark about the Hawaiian-style shirt I was wearing....
    I glanced in his case and briefly thought about retorting along the lines of 'yeah, but I could write a check for your whole inventory
    without breaking a sweat, except it mostly looks like junk'; but instead I just gave a little smile and moved on.... >>



    This, and the title of this thread, may me wonder - what ever happened to decorum?
    I understand humor, even used to write some. But nowadays, it seems that so many discussions have to start with confrontation.
    Maybe the person wearing this on a shirt can't be insulted. But it's a challenge to try. What's the point?
    And some Hawaiian shirts are abhorrent, but they have their place as "icebreakers" which, by definition, are intended to be engaging.
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I enjoy the relationships with all the dealers I interact with. I've broken bread with many of them and wouldn't hesitate to call them good friends whether I'm buying or not.

    If I ever ran across any dealers that sucked I just would avoid them just like I do with others in all walks of life. We all have choices.

    Mark

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Last year at the Lakeland Fall show a dealer made a snide remark about the Hawaiian-style shirt I was wearing....
    I glanced in his case and briefly thought about retorting along the lines of 'yeah, but I could write a check for your whole inventory
    without breaking a sweat, except it mostly looks like junk'; but instead I just gave a little smile and moved on.... >>


    'Way to go, Walkerguy. You did the right thing.image
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i><< Last year at the Lakeland Fall show a dealer made a snide remark about the Hawaiian-style shirt I was wearing....
    I glanced in his case and briefly thought about retorting along the lines of 'yeah, but I could write a check for your whole inventory
    without breaking a sweat, except it mostly looks like junk'; but instead I just gave a little smile and moved on.... >>


    'Way to go, Walkerguy. You did the right thing. >>


    No applause yet, nankraut....when I get to the point that I don't even THINK the nasty comebacks, then you can applaud!

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think it would make much difference.

    I actually had a foolish dealer drop the "You can't afford that" line on me at the Winter FUN show. Gee, I take shower every day, wear neat clean clothes (although I did leave my tuxedo at home), have a gray head of hair that shows I've been alive for while and pull a rolling case with my reference books in it, but I still must look like "poor folks" to some people. I guess he didn't see me coming out of the Heritage Legacy room.

    I told him that I had been on the other side of the table up until a few years ago, and from that I'd learned that it was a bad practice to judge a book by its cover. He wanted $8,500 for Carson City half eagle dated in 1890s. I told him I'd purchased a few coins on that level in the past and walked past him.

    Some dealers shoot themselves in the foot before they even start the negotiations.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭✭✭
    opportunity, I have seen you dressed up and suspect it would not matter what you wore to put the dealers on edge (especially if they know your rules of acquisition).

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you were to show up a bourse table as a Ferrengi, I could understand why a dealer would be defensive.

    You guys DO have a reputation. image
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It will work the same way if you wear a your going to be Cherrypicked shirt. image


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