Dealer business antics

God I hate meatloaf........

 

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Paddy, you are one of the coolest guys on CT. Y. Smiley ou should change your name to Boondock Saint lol.

Seriously though, we should meet up at a show in pennsylvania sometimeittsburgh or Philly. My other coin buddy that i meet at shows was just at a gentlemens club and asked for a $100 band of ones.He oddly enough just sent me a picture of it.A WHOLE 100 PACK OF STAR NOTES in consecutive order. All brand damn new and crispy!

Edit: Im not sure how or why the pink smiley face guy showed up in this post but the funny thing is i do pronounce pittsburgh occasionaly with different enunciations

 

I can do Philly as my main office is up there. As for star notes. My dad always got paid in cash as he was old school . He always had packs of $1 in 100's. Anyway he came home had two packs all star Barr notes!
I had like 25 and being young .... wine, women, and song they got spent.

 

Oh you love this as it has a nice tomato gravy and the mashed potatoes have just enough lumps to please a picky Irishman!

 

take that back or you will have a enema in me

 

The dreaded apparatus yikes . .....

 

I got into paper a squoze when i 1st started collecting. I realized very quickly that holding a fake fiat goldsmiths voucher for a dollar isnt the same as holding a real life physical morgan dollar. Paper $ is created out of thin air, silver is created by mother nature.
But i will be selling my buddies star notes at the flea for $5 awhack lol

 

Sending a South Baltimore Irishman to Pittsburgh wouldn't be a good idea. As the Ravens /Steeler's thing would be like crossing the streams in Ghost Busters !
Besides I don't know what they put in their meatloaf!
For all I know they would feed me Mystery loaf.
And God only knows what they would put on my Permanent record .

 

I Can think of all sortz of punchlines right now. But instead i prefer not to think about this statement for the rest of my time on this planet

 

Yea i dont like that idea much either, i dont get along with steeler fans very often. Every coin I buy id feel like i was donating to their towel factory where they produce those putrid pee yellow rags to wave around like inbreads

 

Have you ever been to lot viewing for a major auction? The slabs are routinely abused at these venues and I have always thought that quite a few have their corners damaged as well as being scratched across the central viewing area.

 

One time I asked a dealer ...what are you asking for the MS65 seated dime in your case? he then replied.."son, that is a very expensive coin"

 

I have gotten the "you're not important treatment" at shows in the past. That's why this time, when I went to the Baltimore-Whitman show, I stuck with those dealers from CT whom I knew would be there. I got no such treatment from any of them, and it was my best experience at that show yet. Mike from ToughCoins was great, as was the PennyLady and I picked up an 1812 1/2 from Angel Dees.

 

The only dealer I didn't like went out of business soon after he began. Oddly enough a new shop opened under the same name in the same town a year or two later. New face behind the case.

I asked about it, and was told that the previous worker had disappointed the owner (the man I was speaking with). I can't remember exactly now but I distinctly remember getting the impression that the old worker was skimming or stealing or otherwise unethical and that was the reason for closing the previous store.

 

Dealer abuse seems to be the norm on the bourse, too! For some, it looks like they have developed their own version of glass hockey.

Chris

 

I fully understand what you're saying ans it would have pissed me off as well.

After all, they ARE there to sell coins. BS can happen during the wine sampling after the show is closed to the public.

 

I have had alot of negative experiences with dealers in my day. I used to live in Ohio and collected coins starting around age 10 or 12. I constantly got the "you arent important enough for me" type of responses and "you cant afford that coin so im not even going to show it to you". I always hated that. And I used to save my money and buy small collections in the $200-600 range and resell to dealers and I always got treated like crap. People often tried to take advantage of my age at the time and would also blow me off. Many dealers left a sour taste in my mouth. Not to say there werent and arent good dealers, I met several I really liked and took extra time with me and helped me out, but I would say the split of dealers had 35-40% of dealers being rude to me and having a negative impact on my view of dealers at the time. Eventually I started making a little more money and while I was in high school I was able to buy and sell alot more and actually make some good money buying and selling stuff as I upgraded my collection. At that point I was paid a LITTLE more attention but still got poorly treated because of my age. I still have somewhat of a sour taste in my mouth from some of the dealer experiences I had. I can understand sometimes why some people prefer to shop online when they have consistent negative experiences.

 

Our local dealer is terrible. I had a VERY nice $2 1/2 Liberty I wanted him to give me an opinion on. I showed it to him, and with just a glance said he thought it was fake. I asked why. He said the denticles on the front looked funny near the date. He weighed it, and it was "off" by about .01 grams or less. I knew it was a very very nice genuine coin, so went home, printed out a picture of the pcgs coin facts coin to show the exact same "odd" look to the denticles. He said "well, the weight is still off". I knew he was using a very cheap digital scale, so asked him to weigh one of his coins to verify. Sure enough, the nickel he weighed was off weight even more than my Liberty. I am pretty sure he knew he was wrong at this point, but I wanted to drive the point home. I asked him if the nickel he was selling was also fake. His customer (really just an old guy who sits in the shop and talks to him) was grinning and trying not to laugh. I would not trust the dealer in my town with my coins at all.

 

occasionally it does seem a few dealers are not really very interested in selling coins that day for whatever reason. i suggest we appreciate the irony and enjoy life!

 

Hard to say.maybe other things in his head