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Message:: [QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 2096695, member: 13307"]*When you mention coin shop owners and gold exchange stores in the same paragraph, I think you do a great disservice to the coin shops.  In my experience, gold exchange (gold buyers, cash4gold places, etc) employees will quickly try to figure out how much you know about what you're bringing in.  If they think they can buy $5,000 worth of gold for $500, they will.  Most coin shops I've been in won't be quite so unscrupulous - because they have usually been in the same location for decades, and they care whether customers think they're ripping them off. The only thing I've noticed about certain coin shops that I think is bad for the hobby is not letting customers actually pick out which coins they'd like to buy.  I've been in some that have tailored their customer service to the people who come in and say, "I'd like a 1970 mint set." and they hand them a 1970 mint set...and the buyer doesn't even look at the coins.  When I say, "I'd like to look for a nice 1970 mint set" and you can see a stack of 15 of them, but they only let you look at one...to me, that's bad for the hobby.  (This goes for whether a customer is looking for quality coins or cherrypicking varieties...) But, once I figure out a store is like that, I just don't shop there any more.  If they are charging more for silver than you can get it for elsewhere, why not take your business elsewhere?[/QUOTE]