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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1909213, member: 19463&quot;]1.&nbsp; Just don&#039;t abuse this one.&nbsp; Dealers are at a show to sell coins so any coin you reserve but don&#039;t buy might have sold.&nbsp; I have been sitting at a table next to a collector who had set aside three coins but was not sure if he wanted them.&nbsp; After a half hour of thinking about it, he put two back.&nbsp; I immediately pounced on one of them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; That is a fact!&nbsp; Some dealers go to shows with no intention of selling coins but just to buy and trade back an forth with other dealers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some sit there through the show and wonder why no one looks twice at their coins.&nbsp; I am unclear how they make a living at this but I am not a dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; At my last show I did this but felt very guilty.&nbsp; I was 99% sure a certain coin was fake and told the dealer who was uncertain.&nbsp; I suggested he show the coin to a specific other dealer who was a specialist in that type of coin.&nbsp; I then offered to do the leg work (because I wanted to hear the result) and was told that the coin was fake.&nbsp; What I had done in fact was ask a dealer to perform a free service for his competition and I did not buy anything from him at that show (he had nothing I wanted).&nbsp; I feel that I wasted a favor on that matter and will not be doing that again anytime soon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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