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Two recent dealer experiences that were NOT GOOD rant.

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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Paragraphs are your friend.
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Personally I don't know how these guys can stand running a shop nowadays.

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He also said he had lots of slabbed material though. I said great, I'd like to take a look to see what there is to see. He then asked if there was something specific I was looking for. I then tried to tell him I buy lots of different things and named a few series. He then explained that without something specific he just wasn't going to pull out his $4,000,000 in inventory. I kinda stood there with a blank WTF look on my face for a second, said I guess you really don't want to sell anything and I walked out when another customer was coming in so I did not have to wait to be buzzed out.

    Perhaps a response like "Well, let's try slabbed Morgan Dollars first and see how it goes" would have been more effective than a "blank WTF look" on your face.

    Coin collecting is not exactly rocket science, you know.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭
    If it's primarily a jewelry store, a standard clause in business insurance is that you can only let a customer look at one
    item at a time. If you hand an unknown customer a box or tray and they steal or swap lower value items, you
    are not covered. We even got training materials for Jewelers Mutual that one sign of a thief was the customer that
    came in to your store not knowing what they wanted. if the customer didn't say "diamond engagement ring around
    $3000" that was supposed to be a dire warning sign.
    Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
  • EVillageProwlerEVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If it's primarily a jewelry store, a standard clause in business insurance is that you can only let a customer look at one
    item at a time. If you hand an unknown customer a box or tray and they steal or swap lower value items, you
    are not covered. We even got training materials for Jewelers Mutual that one sign of a thief was the customer that
    came in to your store not knowing what they wanted. if the customer didn't say "diamond engagement ring around
    $3000" that was supposed to be a dire warning sign. >>



    The quoted text, plus Andy's response, is a good lesson that there is often more one valid perspective.

    EVP

    How does one get a hater to stop hating?

    I can be reached at evillageprowler@gmail.com

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