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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;telephoto1, post: 1744179, member: 9443&quot;]First off, let&#039;s look at what happened...first, we have this:</p><p><i>&#039;&quot;Then a guy walked up behind me and said to the dealer, &quot;Hey, Joe (not his name).&nbsp; Do you have any counterfeit type coins?&quot; The dealer turned his attention to this&nbsp; guy and said, &quot;Yeah! I have this great XXXXX. You wanna see it?&quot; And he picked&nbsp; up the altered coin and started to hand it to the guy. HELLO!! I thought you&nbsp; were dealing with me. The dealer looked at me and said, &quot;You mind if I show this&nbsp; coin to him?&quot; I sat back in the chair and said, &quot;I thought we were discussing&nbsp; the coin but do whatever you want.&quot; He put the coin down and told the guy he&nbsp; would get with him in a minute. (But the guy kept hanging around.) GEEESH!! &quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>What I see here is...you haven&#039;t made any other offer on the coin yet, so as far as he knows you&#039;re just a lookie-lou... he politely asks you if it&#039;s OK to show the other guy the coin and when you get your nose out of joint, he still waits... even though it&#039;s his coin and he can do with it what he wishes. So I guess I am having a problem seeing the dealer as a bad guy here. I do agree that the other guy could have just waited his turn, but many dealers multi-task at shows and the other guy had no clue that you were looking at one of the things he potentially had an interest in...so I guess I don&#039;t really look at him as a bad guy here either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s look at what happens next...</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;So the dealer turned his attention back to me (at least partially) and I&nbsp; explained that melt on the $2 1/2 is $180 and it is not an especially good&nbsp; counterfeit but I would be interested at $225 (which I think is more than it is&nbsp; worth but I liked it). He said he wouldn&#039;t take less than $250 so I put the coin&nbsp; down and picked up the altered coin (with the other guy still lingering around)&nbsp; and told him that I would pay $100. $325 for the pair. He thought about it and&nbsp; came back with $390. I thanked him and told him my offer of $325 stands and I&nbsp; would let him think about it and return later. </i></p><p><i>&nbsp;</i></p><p><i>So a couple of hours&nbsp; later I returned to his table with money in hand. ($335. I decided I could go&nbsp; another $10 higher but that was my limit.) I said, &quot;Let&#039;s talk about those&nbsp; coins.&quot; He said, &quot;What coins was that?&quot; Come on! So I told him. He said, &quot;I sold&nbsp; the altered coin for <u>substantially</u> more than you offered.&quot; OK. Good for&nbsp; you. So I counted out $225 and said, &quot;I&#039;m willing to give you $225 for the $2&nbsp; 1/2.&quot; He thought about it and said he could go $235. I again offered $225 and he&nbsp; declined. I thanked him and before I left I said, &quot;Next time I see you I may be&nbsp; your student.&quot;</i> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK...so now, you negotiate unsuccessfully and leave after essentially telling him his piece is just scrap and not that great- but you&#039;ll bail him out at $XXX. Then you come back 2 hours later. If I&#039;m him I&#039;d be thinking...Oh great, lookie lou is back. Then you peel off bills, like that&#039;s supposed to impress him. If I&#039;m him I&#039;d have held to my number as well...considering the time spent (in his eyes, time wasted)...and the fact that he&#039;s come down quite a bit already. So I&#039;m thinking that your attempt to chisel another $10 was where he drew the line.</p><p><br /></p><p>JHMO as a 30 year dealer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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