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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Player11, post: 1215235, member: 26725&quot;]First of all I don&#039;t do counterfeit or altered coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bourse floor is not for hesitation. You either make the deal at that point in time are all bets are off. A dealer is under no obligation to hold a price once someone walks away. Argueing with a dealer about price will hack him off.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not allow someone walking up to interrupt a customer I am dealing with especially if that person is possibly a strong buyer. Sometiems these people want to horn in on the deal (pushing out the dealer) which is worse (I will get rid of them). He may have done this bc he considered you a &quot;looky look&quot; and saw the other guy as someone who would pay the money. When you first talked to him he wanted $250 on the $2.5 Indian and $230 on the altered coin a total of $480. He was willing to take $390 from you after some some haggling. This is $90 almost 20% off. What do you want him to do give them to you? I think that is a generous discount for what he wanted for his coins. I do not get into discussions with buyers about what I have in my coins. You then walked away from the deal so now all bets are off and when you came back and he tried to meet you more than half way at $235 on your offer of $225 for a coin he originally qoted $250 on you walked away again. Obviously, he was not too anxious to get rid of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I dont think the guy is going to win any awards for being MR nice guy but he is a good businessman. First of all I dont care about their arguements, when their BS starts its usually time for them to leave my table. If I have a lot of room in say a $480 deal I will consider a counteroffer if its in a reasonable profit range for me. If the offer is a little too Cheap A, I will counter somewhere inbetween. I would not typically discount it below 10% of my asking price. On such a deal I might say &quot;$430 is my best price as I operate on a narrow spread.&quot; Then the customer could take it or get lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think its a lame arguement for a dealer to get into the &quot;what I paid for it&quot; stuff as this has nothing really to do with the current market value of the coin. While I am willing to discount coins I have a lot of room in assuming its a cash buyer (and we all know coins can take long to turnover sometimes) if the customer wants to argure with me with CS or wont pay what I want for the coin to make a decent ROI then its adios. I just dont care about their BS, at that point its time for them to leave. I set up at shows to buy and sell at my price not win a popularity contest. I would not insult someone about &quot;not making it in my class&quot; I keep it all in a professional, business like manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>I especially can&#039;t stand customers who want to take the coin from my table to show to another dealer (I wont allow this) nor bring another dealer over to negotiate the deal. I had the latter happen not too long ago. Both come up to my table after I had quoted $160 to the coustomer. The dealer asks how much is that coin - I say $160. He then says &quot;Is that Bid&quot; - I told the so and so I don&#039;t do wholesale and if he wants the coin I need $160 for it. They then walked away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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