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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2164719, member: 27832"]So, cherry-picking is unethical? No exceptions?</p><p><br /></p><p>If I understood the posts that you and [USER=29643]@NorthKorea[/USER] are commenting on, these were purchases of stuff <i>offered for sale</i> at melt. To my mind, cherry-picking something at its listed price is different in kind from telling people their coins have a low value, then buying at that low value. If a seller doesn't have the time or ambition to search the stuff he puts in the junk bin, I don't have an obligation to do his work for him.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I do have problems with the "cash for gold" places and dealers who lowball the general public, but I don't have a problem with flea-market finds or eBay auction wins. Maybe I'm just a hypocritical chiseler, but so far, it's not costing me any sleep.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2164719, member: 27832"]So, cherry-picking is unethical? No exceptions? If I understood the posts that you and [USER=29643]@NorthKorea[/USER] are commenting on, these were purchases of stuff [I]offered for sale[/I] at melt. To my mind, cherry-picking something at its listed price is different in kind from telling people their coins have a low value, then buying at that low value. If a seller doesn't have the time or ambition to search the stuff he puts in the junk bin, I don't have an obligation to do his work for him. So, I do have problems with the "cash for gold" places and dealers who lowball the general public, but I don't have a problem with flea-market finds or eBay auction wins. Maybe I'm just a hypocritical chiseler, but so far, it's not costing me any sleep.[/QUOTE]
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