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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2550556, member: 36230"]Okay, so let's call it an "insurance policy", but let's also clarify exactly what this free policy covers... the original purchase price IF the coin is ever discovered to be counterfeit. Did Green buy, or was the dealer even offering, additional insurance to cover possible gains? Not in his example he didn't, which means we're back to square one and you invalidated your own point, that is unless it's somehow now the dealer's fault for not charging for or even knowing he was doing so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Never, in just short of 25 years involvement in this hobby as a non-collector have I ever... ever known anyone short of shysters to guarantee returns in any way, shape, or form. The concept not only ludicrous but is also from practical, and you know this as well as I do. The dealer is very simply standing behind what he sells and what he believes to be true (authenticity) at the price paid. Nothing more and most certainly nothing less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, Paul; any dealer worth his salt would almost certainly do as you said and go above and beyond simply to help right a wrong, but this doesn't mean it's their responsibility, and this is key. Going above and beyond is just good business; I wholeheartedly agree, especially because we both know no one in their right mind would ever make such a return (for the original price paid) in the first place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2550556, member: 36230"]Okay, so let's call it an "insurance policy", but let's also clarify exactly what this free policy covers... the original purchase price IF the coin is ever discovered to be counterfeit. Did Green buy, or was the dealer even offering, additional insurance to cover possible gains? Not in his example he didn't, which means we're back to square one and you invalidated your own point, that is unless it's somehow now the dealer's fault for not charging for or even knowing he was doing so. Never, in just short of 25 years involvement in this hobby as a non-collector have I ever... ever known anyone short of shysters to guarantee returns in any way, shape, or form. The concept not only ludicrous but is also from practical, and you know this as well as I do. The dealer is very simply standing behind what he sells and what he believes to be true (authenticity) at the price paid. Nothing more and most certainly nothing less. Again, Paul; any dealer worth his salt would almost certainly do as you said and go above and beyond simply to help right a wrong, but this doesn't mean it's their responsibility, and this is key. Going above and beyond is just good business; I wholeheartedly agree, especially because we both know no one in their right mind would ever make such a return (for the original price paid) in the first place.[/QUOTE]
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