Would anyone on here spend 300.00 dollars for 2 1929 ten dollar brown bills that are in poor condition ? The reason why I ask that is cause a antique shop opened up in my local area recently and had them for sale and I know everyone on here likes to see the coins/bills to get a better idea of the condition of what I'm asking about but sadly the vendor selling the bills wouldn't let me take pictures of them.
Not sure of value, but if he wouldn't let me take a picture, I definitely wouldn't give him my $300. But that's just me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
"If they won't let me take a pic, post it, then get opinions, I walk." Really? What B&M, in this case, an antique shop, which is still a B&M, lets you do that? Please, let me know.
So you own no books, magazines, any kind of reference, to which you can refer? You only rely on pics that you post online, and the opinions given thereafter?
Not at all. I just don't usually shop with a cart to wheel those references around in. You can shop by whatever standard you want. Me, I won't be doing business with any "collectibles" place which won't let me research the authenticity and provenance of something I might want to purchase from them. I'm OK with "Well, yeah, but no telling it'll be here when you come back" - that's business - but "No pics, buy it with what you know right now or not at all" doesn't fly. It's greasy at best and malicious at worst, especially in the collectibles genre.
Unless they are from Dallas, they aren't worth anything. From your description, these are worth $20 apiece. (Except the Dallas notes.)
I too would not deal with them if they wouldn't let you take a photo. But I also have never asked to take one lol
Well if they said you can't take a photo AND you have to buy it now or never, then yea that's shady. Although it probably wouldn't be a big deal to me (if I were the shop owner) to allow someone to take a photo if they asked politely, I can see some folks having a problem with it (and not because they are trying to rip off the buyer). Some possibilities that quickly come to mind are... 1) They are paranoid and think you are planning to rob them 2) They think you might be using photos to sell the item prior to you owning the item I know a lot of folks would say "so what?" to #2, but some folks have a problem with others representing their stuff as that of your own. The only suggestion I will make is don't buy something if you don't know what it is and how much it's worth on the market. That goes for whether you get photos or not.
I'm also an Antique Dealer and over the past 25 years of selling antiques and collectibles it's been my experience that they think they have something of value when in fact they do not. Walk away. If you really want them, go buy them from a dealer of coins and paper money, not an antiques dealer.
Just tell them you need to ask your mom for permission before making such a large purchase then let out a bit of drool on their counter.
Well I didn't buy them then and with what y'all have said I don't plan on buying them off of that vendor either
Not that I disagree, but there can be perfectly valid reasons for it. I knew this fellow who always had to take photos, almost always of multiple coins, and even had his own battery-powered lights to do so, supposedly "in order to research". No big deal as nothing was held for him, but I did find it odd how he's sometimes call well after respectable hours to voice his decision. Well, only after speaking to a mutual friend did I learn that "research" and "eBay" are, apparently, synonyms. Unfortunately, the more accommodating you are, the more open you are to those wishing to abuse it.
