Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 794959, member: 8033&quot;]Lots of good answers here CoinGal and Just Carl just made a great point.</p><p><br /></p><p>My boss at the shop is now 66 and he gets impatient pretty quickly at times unless HE&#039;S doing the talking and it is often totally coin unrelated.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am most often the one that gets &quot;stuck&quot; with the gabby ones. Honestly it rarely bothers me unless I&#039;m real busy and even then I&#039;m very polite about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As much as I don&#039;t really care for all of the new quarters (state, territories and now parks) and Presidential dollars these have brought a lot of people into the hobby just for something to do. A lot of my buyers are regulars now and MANY of them are getting up in their years.</p><p>When I see an 80 year old lady come in with her list of quarters I&quot;ll always greet them with something like &quot;Oh look a valuable customer&quot; or &quot;I&#039;ll be right with you young lady&quot;. Never fails to get a smile and I listen patiently as they tell me about their grandchildren and great grandchildren. Hey, what&#039;s a few minutes of my time anyway?</p><p>I&#039;d rather give them that than have them getting ripped off by fast talking salesman on TV and believe me I see it when these folks come into sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those not terribly familiar with coins are still often very proud of them. To them a silver dollar from the 1800s just HAS to be rare. I can understand that. If I didn&#039;t see them every day I might think so as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure there are many that do seem to think you may have no clue. Perhaps they&#039;ve done some research and they&#039;re proud of that. Can&#039;t blame them as they don&#039;t know how much research I may do on any given day.</p><p>At times it actually is almost laughable but one has to realize the owner is proud and trying to get the most money when selling. They can actually be the toughest to buy from no matter how many times you explain &quot;we already have 100 of those so we&#039;re not paying strong&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also one must realize that some collectors have really done a lot of research in a particular area and may know&nbsp; more than the dealer. There have been many occasions when I have gone to a show and seen a Two Cent Piece that I liked but it was over graded. Might be from a seller that deals mainly in modern.</p><p>I&#039;ve found that if I express interest and then politely tell them what I think it grades and why many have said &quot;well seems you know them better than me&quot; and dropped the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The larger the inventory one carries as a dealer the more likely it is that this may happen actually. Heck, where I work we buy a lot of old stuff and my boss will do it &quot;blind&quot;.</p><p>Then I get called upon to figure out what it is and how much we get for it.</p><p>I jokingly tell him I just Google &quot;needle in haystack&quot; and it pops up.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;m about done rambling like some &quot;old guy&quot; but it takes all kinds I guess. I don&#039;t see it changing anytime soon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in