What a jerk!!!

I think he was a bit snooty - obviously he did not see you as someone he could make much money off of.

Let me know if you have luck selling those on the Bay (it probably costs more to ship them than what you may get over face LOL). I have about two dozen of BU Cent rolls from 1968 - 1970 I would love to sell on the Bay but always back off when I think about the shipping cost and how low they bid. I see the 2009 log cabins bid for all of $1.10 on the sheet dont c a listing for the shields yet. My 1968-S BU cent roll I bought at a model shop in 1968 for $1.50 as a teen bids for all of 90c. I guess it beats Enron LOL.

 

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Vote with your feet. There is NEVER any excuse to be so rude, never. Not even if he was busy, in the bathroom, sleeping, or whatever. Never. No, not EVER. What goes around, comes around. Let it go, vote with your feet, go somewhere else for adviceAnd if it were me, I'd throw those rolls of pennies in a drawer for a while, and forget about it..but if I'm not mistaken, you spent them maybe?Let it slide, and be happy!

 

If those are the customer service skills that he employs when interacting with the public, he really needs to find another way to make a living because he's terrible at it. It's a very small % of the population that are like you Log Potato and will let someone insult them and then hang-up on them, just to turn the other cheek, especially when that someone is a person trying to make a living from developing relationships with the public. I wouldn't call back and play games like I jokingly suggested, but I would call back and ask to speak to his superior. And if it was the owner, then I'd let him know how rude and offended I was by his behavior and how I would share my negative experience with others.

-LTB

 

You're right, I may be in the minority when someone gets rude with me. I tend not to dwell on the more frivolous things in life. Calling back and asking for a supervisor is fine, but as many had wrote before, calling and harassing the dealer should not be considered.

 

As a fellow regionite, I feel your pain. However, I do know a guy who would probably love to talk to you on a Sunday about rolls of...coins...if you're interested.

 

I live in IL. And the dealer in my neighborhood is exactly the same. When I first started collecting I was buying on ebay, after being ripped off a few times I started looking everywhere for a local shop. After locating him I went in with about 5 grand in my pocket and high hopes of buying some nice coins that day if his prices were right and he had what I want. I asked him if he had any gold eagles for sale. He looked at me mumbled something and tossed an eagle down the counter at me, I mean it bounced down the counter cause he tossed it so hard. Then he went back to playing on the computer and grumbling some more. I tossed it back down the counter at him and said have a nice day and then just turned around and walked out of the shop. Trouble is hes the only dealer within 30 miles I could find. Great customer service skills for a potential large sale and care for his coins huh.. Ive heard stories he treats everyone that way so now I just spread the word to stay away from him.

 

I think there's enough blame to go around here. It took 20 rings for him to answer and when he did it sounded like you woke him up. Do you think that maybe you did wake him up. Just because you think he's the only dealer around that's open on Sunday, did it occur to you that maybe he was taking a day off? Or that he just ,,wasn't open yet? Don't assume that you know what was going on with him at that moment when you interrupted. I can tell you that if I had something going on that didn't include wanting to talk on the phone and I let it ring without answering, if it rang 20 times I might answer it with less civility than the dealer showed you.

As far as your question goes, come on, you know the new shield cents are in the second year of what might well be a 50 year series with BILLIONS of them being minted. You ask a slightly inane question about their worth? They are worth exactly $0.01. As in any series there may be some varieties, errors or special mintage with extra worth but yours won't be, and really, you should know that yourself.

The Cent/Penny debate won't be solved here or by your dealer. Call them what you wish and go along with others who want to call them something else. The Mint calls them Pennies and they have a value of One Cent.

Finally, you call a dealer to ask about the value of something you want to sell on ebay? Why didn't you offer to sell to him? Why should he give you free advice on how to undercut his business? Anyway, his selling price for a roll of 2011 pennies might be $1.50-$2.50, but he won't give you more than $0.50 if he even wanted any so any answer he might have given to your question wouldn't be of much value to you.

Your last sentence makes me wonder why you bothered to call him in the first place; you could easily have waited a day and called someone that you trust.

 

I agree. There is no reason to harass the dealer. I would simply never spend a penny at his store and if someone ever asked me for my opinion...I would tell them exactly why I never deal with him. Poor service like that only ends badly for the dealer.

 

What an Arse! I notice that many coin dealers give off this Arrogant attitude... I met one that was nice. Until he decided to tax me after he gave me the wrong price on an item to make up for his mistake.

 

Also I would wake him up next Sunday and tell him to go to church.

 

Obviously, he was too busy to enter to a conversation which might have gotten him a future customer. Too bad.

But you do know that this forum of professional and amateur collectors can give you good information on just about anything. These are a great group of guys who have sure taught me a lot.

gary

 

question to the OP... where on a united states cent does it say "penny"??? find me one year, any year, from 1793-2011 where it says "penny" on it? oh, that's right, it doesn't say that. it says "one cent." so you, and the majority of americans, are wrong. but that aside... how the dealer handled the situation was wrong. i feel like the majority of people who have posted... just ignore him. act as if he doesn't exist. there's no sense on "trying to get even" over this situation.

 

I would go back and see if I was treated the same again. One bad service is excusable. Two, not so much. Maybe he thought you were a prank caller?

 

Next time you call the dealer you may want to block your number. He may have Caller ID.

 

... where on a united states five cent coin does it say "nickle"??? find me one year, any year, from 1793-2011 where it says "nickle" on it? oh, that's right, it doesn't say that. it says "five cents." so you, and the majority of americans, are wrong.

The manufacturer (the United States Mint) calls the coin a "Penny"; why do you feel that the "proper" name is "Cent?"

 

i don't call it a "nickel," thank you very much! the proper name is cent, not penny. the british have pennies. do you call a "chevy" a "ford" or a "toyota?" do you refer to all fords as a "mustang?" it is what it is, whether or not the majority call it that or not. i said "that aside," meaning i was putting that behind me, so if you want to quote me, don't take my quote out of context.

just for the record, five cents pieces were first minted in 1792, not 1793.

 

A Chevy? The proper name is Chevrolet. I would never call it a Chevy.


I got this off the US Mint website.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/info/?action=01

This too.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/circulatingCoins/



Reminds me of a song--"Shave and a haircut, two bits...er, a quarter, I mean a 25 cent piece."

 

point proven, i concede. my apologies. feel free to stone me now...

 

*67 then the number, in case you don't know. It's free.

 

Look at this from the dealer's perspective:

Obviously he's doing something else that precludes him from answering the phone right away, whether it is being with a customer, in the john, whatever. The phone rings 20 times, on a Sunday. 20 times. If the call is not so important, most callers will hang up long before that. So to the dealer, the continuous ringing could mean that it might be some sort of family emergency-- a call from a wife or child in trouble, even the police or a hospital. So he drops whatever he is doing to answer the phone. And on the other side of the phone, there is a voice "Uh, I have some shield pennies that I want to sell on eBay..." And the dealer thinks, "I had to drop everything I was doing for THIS?"