The difference between a used car dealer & a used coin dealer?
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I've supported myself for the last 18 years buying, selling, upgrading, repairing, and giving advice in used computers. When I started, the personal computer market was full of high-tech mystique with lots of buyers who wanted to get in to the information age but who couldn't come up with the $5000 for a decent new computer. I did everything a 24-hour day allowed to learn the incompatibilities of existing PC technology, and joined my best friend from grade school in starting a used computer dealership. When the technology was so new and exciting to me, I laughed hard when a customer asked me:
"What's the difference between a used car dealer and a used computer dealer?"
He replied, "The used car dealer knows when he's lying."
Today used computers are as well known as used cars, but there are still many buyers of raw circulated coins learning to grade but enamored of the series.
What's the difference between a used car dealer (who tries to see how much the client can afford or how little the seller might take for it) and a used coin dealer?
"What's the difference between a used car dealer and a used computer dealer?"
He replied, "The used car dealer knows when he's lying."
Today used computers are as well known as used cars, but there are still many buyers of raw circulated coins learning to grade but enamored of the series.
What's the difference between a used car dealer (who tries to see how much the client can afford or how little the seller might take for it) and a used coin dealer?
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If you pull up at a used coin shop there isn't 3 used coin salemen lurking around like vultures in bad leisure suits wearing cheap aftershave that start walking your way until you look at them then they stop and look the other way like they hadn't noticed you then when you turn your back they start moving in on you again.
You don't have to sit in a used coin dealership for 4 hours to find out if you can afford a used coin.
Used car dealers have flashy smiles, good teeth & nice breath.
Used coin dealers never have any coins whose last owners who were little old ladys.
Used car dealers have nice personalities, shake your hand and act like they are happy to see you.
Used car dealers have free coffee & pizza.
Used coin dealers don't let you take a coin home for several days to see if you like it.
Used coin dealers don't give you a loaner coin while yours is being worked on.
Used car dealers don't have that mushy old people smell.
Used coin dealers don't pull a piece of paper out of their pocket and tell you "I can get fired for showing you this but this is what we paid for this coin."
I understand the comparision to coin dealers and coins---but what you don't understand is that it is very common for rare used cars--even "common: Corvettes (1963-67) to have $100,000 or even more spent restoring them to actual Factory Specifications! If that were done to a coin, it would be done by a CON--not a COIN man!
AND, I actually think the College guy who used to (rarely) sell me grass ---was more honest than many--but not all of today's coin dealers!!!
I didn't say that. I didn't say anything bad about used car dealers.
No, you didn't say that-but-----maybe you should read what you really did say---start on the smelling stuff and move on to the paperwork
the "lie"" in the dealer's pocket=== I suggest you deal with a better quality car in the future.
Would you rather deal with a "used coin dealer" or a "new coin dealer"?
.........and do NOT deal with a used coin dealership that also has a "service and repair department".
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
You should know what you are buying and not rely on the salesman
to tell you.
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Us old folks may smell funny, but we got feelings you know.
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<< <i>Hey big doggy, what do you mean "Mushy old people smell"
Us old folks may smell funny, but we got feelings you know.
I think he meant "musty". I must admit that I've been in several coin shops that had their own unique smell.
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No, you didn't say that-but-----maybe you should read what you really did say---start on the smelling stuff and move on to the paperwork
the "lie"" in the dealer's pocket=== I suggest you deal with a better quality car in the future. >>>
I didn't say that was a lie. I said coin dealers don't do that. Coin dealers are very secretive about what they pay for a coin & their markups.
However if I offended anybody with the remark about vultures.......I sincerely apologize to Nature's big magnificent birds.
FrederickCoinClub
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<< <i>If you pull up at a used coin shop there isn't 3 used coin salemen lurking around like vultures in bad leisure suits wearing cheap aftershave that start walking your way >>
Hehe. When I owned a Corvette, I also owned an old beat up Ford Escort as an every day driver. I used to experiment by pulling in to car lots in the beater one day, and the same lot with the Corvette the next day. The speed at which the vultures come swooping in changes dramatically.
Russ, NCNE