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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhoggman, post: 401651, member: 13987&quot;]Please do not take offense to what I have to say about your quote DAVIDH, but I am going to have to say the first two paragraphs are mostly a guilt trip IMO. How do you know what the old lady does or doesn&#039;t need? You don&#039;t. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Having said that that money was only worth $10 to her, and that is what she got for it, so she is not any worse of than she expected to be; however, the kind thing to do would definately been to explain to her that what she had was much more valuable than $10. I think it was a real stand up thing that bank personnel called the old woman who brought in two $1000 notes to a bank to cash in. I read that article on coinflation. In her case what she had was of significant value.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If I knew the lady had a roll of walkers I would have had to tell her to take them to a coin shop, or offer her outright cash for her coins, but this could get a little old after a while. I&#039;m sure a lot of people cash in old silver coins without any knowledge to what they are doing, and it is not really the job of the bank to teach people about PM, or valuable coins, notes, et cetera.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It is dishonerable to prey on ignorance, but in this case it would seem to me the old lady would have to know that these coins are not seen in pocket change today, and I&#039;m sure she also knew they were old. She was doing with her coins what she wanted to do, and that is what she got. He did not go out searching for an old lady with a pocket full of silver so my opinion is karma could have been on his side that day.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A mean old coin dealer who charged a huge markup on bullion gold once gave me a 1/10 ounce AGE I did not pay for. I knew something was wierd about the transaction when I did not recieve the correct change. I looked for the reciept, and could not find it either (probably because I paid cash and he was hiding that cash transaction from the GOV). When I got home I realized the guy not only gave me a free coin, he put my cash in the envelope with the coin. I really wanted to go back in there and give him the money, but I was pretty sure he was going to get all bent out of shape over the deal as he is a real cranky guy. So the next time I went in the shop I took the money with me, but he didn&#039;t say anything. I didn&#039;t say anything either. I did not prey on ignorance, but ignorance was in my favor. I don&#039;t feel bad about it, and if the guy was not such a jerk all the time I would have explained the whole thing to him, and given him his money. Without a reciept and any proof of what I was saying my motive was to avoid an argument, and or to avoid making the guy feel stupid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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