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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;softmentor, post: 1473868, member: 10469&quot;]The first coin I ever bought (instead of pulling circulation or trading) was at a local coin shop. I was young, probably 11 or 12, so to some extent I can understand the attitude, which was VERY much like the OP described to a T. But, I was there to buy something and common politeness would have been nice. I brought a few coins that I hoped to include as trade. He looked at them for 5 seconds and dismissed them as &quot;not interested in any of these&quot;. Fair enough. When I asked to see a coin he required me to show him some money before he would bring it out. Even at the point of closing the sale, he seemed disgusted with me as a customer. I still walked out with a magnificent flying eagle graded EF 40. I still have it to this day.</p><p>Still the experience was so negative that I never set foot in that store again and didn&#039;t go in another for many years. Looked at the coins in the window many times, but never felt as though they would want me in the store. Once I had a drivers lic. I started going to coin shows but still didn&#039;t go to stores. over the many years, I poked my nose in maybe 3 others and never felt welcome. </p><p>One store, finally, that I went to for the first time 2 years ago broke the long standing ice with me. He was a really nice fellow and I have done business half a dozen times since, always with a little trade and a little cash.</p><p>I still wonder how much business that guy in my home town DIDN&#039;T get in the last 40+ years because of that first meeting. Maybe not millions, but it could have been a lot. For sure, it meant something to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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