Does anyone think this is a joke that a dealer included in his email announcement?
Longacre
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In another thread, I complained that a certain dealer was too flippant with his remark that he "has no time to go through a collection that was built over 71 years, and he will just "flip it" at the upcoming show."
Just seconds ago, I get another email from this same dealer, announcing that he will be at a local show in my area. He then wrote the following:
"As has been my long standing tradition for the December show, I will be bringing my 25 cent bin of world coins. Remember I deliberately throw most coins with catalog values of $1.25 in there too."
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Now don't get me wrong, no one loves a bargain more than Longacre, and although I would not publicly admit it, I hear that it is fun to fish through the junk bin occasionally.
Does anyone think the sentence above was a joke, or was the dealer serious that he was being a swell guy by putting the excessively expensive $1.25 coins in the $0.25 bin?
[Or has The Man beaten on me so much over the last few weeks that even your very own Longacre is getting cranky (with no disrespect to Kranky)]?
Just seconds ago, I get another email from this same dealer, announcing that he will be at a local show in my area. He then wrote the following:
"As has been my long standing tradition for the December show, I will be bringing my 25 cent bin of world coins. Remember I deliberately throw most coins with catalog values of $1.25 in there too."
******
Now don't get me wrong, no one loves a bargain more than Longacre, and although I would not publicly admit it, I hear that it is fun to fish through the junk bin occasionally.
Does anyone think the sentence above was a joke, or was the dealer serious that he was being a swell guy by putting the excessively expensive $1.25 coins in the $0.25 bin?
[Or has The Man beaten on me so much over the last few weeks that even your very own Longacre is getting cranky (with no disrespect to Kranky)]?
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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<< <i>Most low value coins are what I call "service charge" coins. The dealer is charging $1.25, or whatever, as a base rate for handling that type of low end material. His buy price for it is probably about 2 cents per coin so, if he sells them for 25 cents each without having put any effort into the sale he is actually doing very well. >>
NAILED IT! I'd rather sell a couple hundred $1.25 coins that I'm into at 1-1/2 to 2 % , than to sell one coin at $200 that I'm into at 80%. Who wouldn't?
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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I'm just happy to see I haven't missed anything important recently! Longacre is still Longacre. All is right with the world
for some items, about 20 cents worth
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