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Message:: [QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 1807584, member: 13307"]The reason I ask this question is that this happened to me today at a Chicago, IL area coin shop.  I walked in, politely waited for the part owner to finish with the customer he was dealing with, then said I was interested in buying some proof sets or mint sets, and does he have any I can look at, preferably starting in the 50's and 60's?  His response: "Not really." When he said this, there were at least 3 boxes on the floor behind the counter overflowing with proof sets, SMS sets, and mint sets.  There were about 100 sets in his counter displays alone...and I could see them all over the place.   So I thought he was being sarcastic...until he basically refused to show any of them to me.  I finally got to look through about 20 sets, of which I only bought 3 because his prices were a bit higher than retail.  I was fully prepared to buy a large quantity of them if I found coins I liked for one reason or another...so I'm just wondering what would make a coin shop refuse to even let someone look at inventory that's in plain sight of the customer requesting that exact inventory to buy?[/QUOTE]