Another pet peeve---when you ask to see a coin in a flip or slab and the dealer throws it to you. Is it really that much trouble to just hand it to me? Have any of the other board members have this experience?
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Overhyping the coin, like PQ+++++!!!, shoulda been a 67!!!!!, this coin grades a 65.99999!!!!, a sure upgrade!!!!, (insert grading company) really screwed up this one!!!!!, and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux!
<< <i>.........and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux! >>
Perfect example of why PCGS needs to spell out the problem on the slab label.
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<< <i>.........and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux! >>
Perfect example of why PCGS needs to spell out the problem on the slab label. >>
I fail to understand why this is a perfect example of anything necessary beyond a coin being identified as genuine and without a grade, Perry.,
First of all, is the dealer sleazy because he wants XF Money or because he's using the brand name to ensure the coin is authentic ? Asking a price doesn't make a man sleazy, so there must be something else.
<< <i>.........and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux! >>
Perfect example of why PCGS needs to spell out the problem on the slab label. >>
I fail to understand why this is a perfect example of anything necessary beyond a coin being identified as genuine and without a grade, Perry.,
First of all, is the dealer sleazy because he wants XF Money or because he's using the brand name to ensure the coin is authentic ? Asking a price doesn't make a man sleazy, so there must be something else. >>
When a dealer has a problem coin and prices it as if the problem doesn't exist, I consider this to be sleazy.
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<< <i>Online dealers that dont have pictures of the coins they are selling. >> >>
Dealers on the CU Collectors corner w/no pics WTF!!!
Or when asking for a picture they act like it is rocket science to send it to you...just post the damn pictures!!!!
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The dealers who do that oftentimes do not own (or even have possession of) the coins.
When you ask for a photo (if you were the first one to do so) they have to go to the real owner to ask them to scan their coin. Then the CU dealer will forward it on to you. >>
It would seem to me in this day and age they should have had a pic ready before posting the item for sale. You know, kind like you guys do.
From the standpoint of a US-based American buyer (and occasional seller) of British coins:
* Sellers and in some cases, even dealers, who sell whizzed or harshly cleaned coins as "BU" or "UNC."
* Sellers who refuse to refund postage for returned coins when they have serious problems that have not been disclosed and are hidden by poor pictures.
* Sellers and even dealers who think they always have the scarcer/rarer of two varieties of a coin date when in fact they don't. Or claim they have VIP proofs when they are business strikes. I've learned not to explain it to them anymore...
* My biggest pet peeve is any dealer who gripes about a customer who has just left his/her store - and I get to hear about it. Gee, what are you going to say about me after I've left your store, pal?
My brother bought a coin from a dealer at a local show. My brother asked if the dealer had a bag he could put it in, so the dealer turned around, ate all his Doritos, emptied the crumbs out, and put his coin in the Doritos bag! I about died of laughter! And the dealer was serious, not making a joke of any kind.
Yeah, Cheetos fingers is a pet peeve...how bout..."would you like paper, plastic, or used Doritos bag with that?"
Dorkkarl was taking a swing at board member bajjerfan for some reason unknown to me. >>
Maybe jabberfan likes slabs.
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My pet peeve would be the word "RARE". The dictionary defines it as scarce or uncommon. Alot of dealers and seller use the word RARE on anything that is more than face value.
<< <i>My pet peeve would be the word "RARE". The dictionary defines it as scarce or uncommon. Alot of dealers and seller use the word RARE on anything that is more than face value. >>
Also, dealer price lists where virtually every coin is P.Q. It makes you wonder if this dealer can be trusted.
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I really don't like when the coin pictured to the left (my avatar photo) is referred to as the Lincoln commemorative. The coin does NOT commemorate Lincoln but instead it commemorates the 100th anniversary of the State of Illinois. It's the 1918 Illinois Commemorative coin!!!!!! Though, just about everyone refers to it as the 1918 Lincoln commem just about every dealer and even PCGS calls it the Lincoln. The Redbook correctly refers to it as the Illinois Centennial commemorative at least.
<< <i>I hate when a dealer wearing a black leather jacker walks down an aisle on the bourse and rudely pumps into me from behind and then doesn't say a thing and has his smug ugly nose up in the air. FO!
I also hate when others on the board side with the dealer/seller on a coin I'm trying to bid on and try to tell me there's something wrong with not paying full price on a coin for sale. Please mind your own F'n business. >>
I wouldn't like it if a dealer pumps me from behind either. >>
It's part of the coin buying experience with many coin dealers. >>
Well then, those dealers ought to kiss their customers first.
<< <i>I hate when a dealer wearing a black leather jacker walks down an aisle on the bourse and rudely pumps into me from behind and then doesn't say a thing and has his smug ugly nose up in the air. FO!
I also hate when others on the board side with the dealer/seller on a coin I'm trying to bid on and try to tell me there's something wrong with not paying full price on a coin for sale. Please mind your own F'n business. >>
I wouldn't like it if a dealer pumps me from behind either. >>
It's part of the coin buying experience with many coin dealers. >>
Well then, those dealers ought to kiss their customers first. >>
Doen't the PNG require their members to at least use K-Y?
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
YES, this is an older thread (and bringing it to the top might be YOUR pet peeve...)
Please, collectors who own various coins albums, please, PLEASE stop writing little scribble notes on the pages or whatnot.
Future generations will thank you.
I recently had to pass on a few older classic Dansco albums because of this. No one will care what your notation- in ink, of course- of your opinion of grade on a coin that is no longer even in the album.
What would have been a $700.00 deal ended up being a no-sale because there is really no way to erase the markings and they are distracting to a potential future owner of that album.
As mentioned in a prior reply on this thread, the coin can rotate after being slabbed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlO3-nnU5yg
Electric toothbrush or similar vibrating device to the rescue.
Yes, it's a term from England dating from the early 1700s. In the old days, the plural was "pence". The use of "penny" in the USA is probably just a carry-over from Britain.
My pet peeve is people who resurrect useless posts..............this is not one of those times though, thanks for resurrecting this question @braddick
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@Placid said:
Online dealers that dont have pictures of the coins they are selling.
You can just ignore them. If they don’t post pictures or have lousy ones, I classify them as scam artists. The way digital photography is today, there is no excuse for bad pictures if you are something beyond a very casual seller.
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@BBN said:
I get annoyed by people who talk down about people that participate in the registry partly in the spirit of competition. I love coins, but I can't zero in on one type so I'm a type collector. I go for highest grade affordable for two reasons. First because I just want a nice looking type set and second I love climbing the ranks. My abdominal aneuyrsm prevents me from ever powerlifting and playing softball again, but the competitive juices never dried. I saw one poster here say that he thinks that competition is just act by people who aren't fully evolved that must feed this evolutionary instinct. Something to that effect.
Oh, also a local B&M guy. He had a raw Early dollar that looked around VG10. It was in some presentaion case "America's Fist Dollar". I asked him the price of it and he said "Oh, you'll never afford that." I let that slide. It was a comment few weeks later when I decided to never go back there. I was looking around and asked about a 1909-s VDB cent. He looked at me and said "like you've really got the money for that?" and then he and a customer/buddy of his busted out laughing. I didn't go back until last year which was 7-8 years later. I walked into the store had cash in hand and told him I was there to make a slabbed Saint purchase and you would have thought that I was his best friend.
I would not have come back the second time. I’ve had that line dropped me when me when I was in my 20s. The dealer was right. His prices were ridiculous.
Two other dealers dropped that line on me when I was in my 60s. Those dealers were just stupid. Dealers need to forget that idiotic comment. “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” I guess some people think I look poor, like a poverty subject.
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People who say that Walkers are 'widgets' and really have no concept of the absolute and condition rarity of the KEY dates.
People who are rough with or mishandle slabs. Just like coins, slabs should be held from the edges!!
People who lay their junk on dealer cases, so as to obscure the view. Also, people who lean on glass cases. I'm not even a dealer and this makes me cringe!!
Tire-kickers who always want to look and handle yet NEVER buy.
People who reply in ignorance and spread false information. We could use less of this. I never comment, unless I'm rather certain of what I'm talking about.
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I hate scrolling auction records and the highest price paid for a coin is PCGS/CAC that is the ugliest coin I can see in all the records for that date/mintmark grade.
LOL, seriously, this hobby has that many mindless lemmings?
@Coin Finder said:
buyers and dealers who call everything cleaned all the time no what....
This abuse was far more prevalent before the major grading services came along. This is one of the reasons the major grading services became popular.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Since the word penny has become part of the nomenclature in north America, it is perfectly OK to use "penny" or "cent" interchangeably, even though the US mints never officially minted a penny.
Use of the words double die instead of doubled die. Double die would mean 2 dies, while doubled die means one die that was doubled.
@PerryHall said:
Someone posted that they hated when dealers advertise "halfs" rather than "halves". I consider this to be his pet peeve. My pet peeve is I hate when coin collectors (who should know better) refer to cents as pennies. They are not pennies---they are cents!!!!!!!! Penny is a slang term used by the uneducated masses and coin collectors should know better than to call them pennies. O.K. What are your coin related pet peeves? Don't hold back---I know you have some.
The Penny Lady calls them pennies so my advice to you is stop being a stick in the mud and get on board with her and other like-minded numismatists. Doesn't pennies from heaven sound better than cents from heaven?
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
My pet peeve is more of a personal failing. I like to know the Overton, Fortin, Bugert, etc. designation for a particular coin. When I can't figure it out I actually can't sleep at night.
I feel as if my brain is on fire and pretty much fall apart over nothing. Strange but true. James
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<< <i>.........and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux! >>
Perfect example of why PCGS needs to spell out the problem on the slab label.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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<< <i>.........and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux! >>
Perfect example of why PCGS needs to spell out the problem on the slab label. >>
I fail to understand why this is a perfect example of anything necessary beyond a coin being identified as genuine and without a grade, Perry.,
First of all, is the dealer sleazy because he wants XF Money or because he's using the brand name to ensure the coin is authentic ? Asking a price doesn't make a man sleazy, so there must be something else.
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<< <i>.........and finally sleazy dealers who price PCGS Genuine coins like problem free examples of the equivalent grade. They'll call it an EF-45 in the Genuine holder, and price it just like one. That sux! >>
Perfect example of why PCGS needs to spell out the problem on the slab label. >>
I fail to understand why this is a perfect example of anything necessary beyond a coin being identified as genuine and without a grade, Perry.,
First of all, is the dealer sleazy because he wants XF Money or because he's using the brand name to ensure the coin is authentic ? Asking a price doesn't make a man sleazy, so there must be something else. >>
When a dealer has a problem coin and prices it as if the problem doesn't exist, I consider this to be sleazy.
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"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
So is that two pet peeves ?
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<< <i>Online dealers that dont have pictures of the coins they are selling. >> >>
Dealers on the CU Collectors corner w/no pics WTF!!!
Or when asking for a picture they act like it is rocket science
to send it to you...just post the damn pictures!!!!
The dealers who do that oftentimes do not own (or even have possession of) the coins.
When you ask for a photo (if you were the first one to do so) they have to go to the real owner to ask them to scan their coin. Then the CU dealer will forward it on to you. >>
It would seem to me in this day and age they should have had a pic ready before posting the item for sale. You know, kind like you guys do.
* Sellers and in some cases, even dealers, who sell whizzed or harshly cleaned coins as "BU" or "UNC."
* Sellers who refuse to refund postage for returned coins when they have serious problems that have not been disclosed and are hidden by poor pictures.
* Sellers and even dealers who think they always have the scarcer/rarer of two varieties of a coin date when in fact they don't. Or claim they have VIP proofs when they are business strikes. I've learned not to explain it to them anymore...
* My biggest pet peeve is any dealer who gripes about a customer who has just left his/her store - and I get to hear about it. Gee, what are you going to say about me after I've left your store, pal?
Yeah, Cheetos fingers is a pet peeve...how bout..."would you like paper, plastic, or used Doritos bag with that?"
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<< <i>What's a jabberfan? >>
Dorkkarl was taking a swing at board member bajjerfan for some reason unknown to me.
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<< <i>What's a jabberfan? >>
Dorkkarl was taking a swing at board member bajjerfan for some reason unknown to me. >>
Maybe jabberfan likes slabs.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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<< <i>My pet peeve would be the word "RARE". The dictionary defines it as scarce or uncommon. Alot of dealers and seller use the word RARE on anything that is more than face value.
Also, dealer price lists where virtually every coin is P.Q. It makes you wonder if this dealer can be trusted.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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64 is less THAN 65. I like this more THAN that.
Where in this country is "then" being taught?
<< <i>Where in this country is "then" being taught? >>
Same places that "loose" is being taught as the spelling of the word to use when you want to say "I hate it when I "loose" my car keys".
I know it's not a typo because nobody ever spells it "losse".
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<< <i>I hate when a dealer wearing a black leather jacker walks down an aisle on the bourse and rudely pumps into me from behind and then doesn't say a thing and has his smug ugly nose up in the air. FO!
I also hate when others on the board side with the dealer/seller on a coin I'm trying to bid on and try to tell me there's something wrong with not paying full price on a coin for sale. Please mind your own F'n business. >>
I wouldn't like it if a dealer pumps me from behind either.
It's part of the coin buying experience with many coin dealers.
Well then, those dealers ought to kiss their customers first.
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<< <i>I hate when a dealer wearing a black leather jacker walks down an aisle on the bourse and rudely pumps into me from behind and then doesn't say a thing and has his smug ugly nose up in the air. FO!
I also hate when others on the board side with the dealer/seller on a coin I'm trying to bid on and try to tell me there's something wrong with not paying full price on a coin for sale. Please mind your own F'n business. >>
I wouldn't like it if a dealer pumps me from behind either.
It's part of the coin buying experience with many coin dealers.
Well then, those dealers ought to kiss their customers first. >>
Doen't the PNG require their members to at least use K-Y?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
YES, this is an older thread (and bringing it to the top might be YOUR pet peeve...)
Please, collectors who own various coins albums, please, PLEASE stop writing little scribble notes on the pages or whatnot.
Future generations will thank you.
I recently had to pass on a few older classic Dansco albums because of this. No one will care what your notation- in ink, of course- of your opinion of grade on a coin that is no longer even in the album.
What would have been a $700.00 deal ended up being a no-sale because there is really no way to erase the markings and they are distracting to a potential future owner of that album.
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Don’t like it when the TPG’s don’t line up the coin correctly in the slab. Sloppy….
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As mentioned in a prior reply on this thread, the coin can rotate after being slabbed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlO3-nnU5yg
Electric toothbrush or similar vibrating device to the rescue.
NGC slabs that go right up to the coin make me feel the coin is claustrophobic and needs to be “liberated”
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Vintage albums seem to have a following… just an observation… not a problem or peeve. I wouldn’t mind following this a little closer.
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Yes, it's a term from England dating from the early 1700s. In the old days, the plural was "pence". The use of "penny" in the USA is probably just a carry-over from Britain.
The Penny Lady sounds better than the Cents Lady...................
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My pet peeve is people who resurrect useless posts..............this is not one of those times though, thanks for resurrecting this question @braddick
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You can just ignore them. If they don’t post pictures or have lousy ones, I classify them as scam artists. The way digital photography is today, there is no excuse for bad pictures if you are something beyond a very casual seller.
I would not have come back the second time. I’ve had that line dropped me when me when I was in my 20s. The dealer was right. His prices were ridiculous.
Two other dealers dropped that line on me when I was in my 60s. Those dealers were just stupid. Dealers need to forget that idiotic comment. “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” I guess some people think I look poor, like a poverty subject.
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Still worse, bourse dealers with ‘Cheeto’s’ gold.😳
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Supposedly "interested" eBay lookers who do nothing.
buyers and dealers who call everything cleaned all the time no what....
I hate scrolling auction records and the highest price paid for a coin is PCGS/CAC that is the ugliest coin I can see in all the records for that date/mintmark grade.
LOL, seriously, this hobby has that many mindless lemmings?
Matching these designer int's on a 1992 cent.
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This abuse was far more prevalent before the major grading services came along. This is one of the reasons the major grading services became popular.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Since the word penny has become part of the nomenclature in north America, it is perfectly OK to use "penny" or "cent" interchangeably, even though the US mints never officially minted a penny.
Use of the words double die instead of doubled die. Double die would mean 2 dies, while doubled die means one die that was doubled.
Sometimes it just might be a penny and not a cent.
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
The Penny Lady calls them pennies so my advice to you is stop being a stick in the mud and get on board with her and other like-minded numismatists. Doesn't pennies from heaven sound better than cents from heaven?
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
My pet peeve is more of a personal failing. I like to know the Overton, Fortin, Bugert, etc. designation for a particular coin. When I can't figure it out I actually can't sleep at night.
I feel as if my brain is on fire and pretty much fall apart over nothing. Strange but true. James