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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;petro89, post: 739190, member: 17048&quot;]I agree with many of the comments on here.&nbsp; There are a few great folks out there that genuinly care about their customers, but they constitute the minority.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying that every other dealer is out to rip someone off...they just go about their business.&nbsp; Then there are a minority on the other end too - the handfull of bad ones.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are 6 dealers here in Southeast Michigan that I have visited multiple times, and a few others that I wouldn&#039;t bother going to (either not much inventory, more of a pawn shop, just way to far for what they offer, or whatever other reason that immediately turns me off).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are three areas that I look for in a good coin shop which are value/price, inventory, and service.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think price/value is self explanatory.&nbsp; Fairness in both buying and selling.&nbsp; I understand its a business and I understand there are not any miracles out there.&nbsp; I&#039;d gladly pay a fair price or receive a fair offer.&nbsp; If they are clearly lowballing when I&#039;m selling or are blatantly ripping me or someone else off when buying, I won&#039;t go back.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For inventory I&#039;m looking to see if they have what I&#039;m currently looking for, what I may need in the future, and high quality (ie when I&#039;m looking for wheat pennies for example, I don&#039;t need to see a billion from the 50&#039;s in VG...and you wouldn&#039;t believe one of the dealers around here - the place is always a mess and half his coins, which are usually in mylars with rusted staples, have fingerprints all over them).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For service, are they friendly and knowledgeable?&nbsp; Is it a reasonable wait, do they go the extra mile?&nbsp; I had one dealer take a list of some common BU coins I was looking for to complete a Jefferson set - I came back after a month not expecting anything but he had taken the time to set aside nearly every one of them, and we&#039;re talking common BU&#039;s worth about a quarter apiece.&nbsp; How do they treat customers in general?&nbsp; Is it convenient?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I figure I can deal with a place that meets at least two of the three categories for most of my needs.&nbsp; Thankfully I think that there are 3 places that do that...anbd come close to meeting all three.&nbsp; It seems that that is a rare fin so I feel lucky having three.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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