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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCro57, post: 3028809, member: 92083&quot;]I guess I am the only one here who says it would be best to say to the dealer &quot;do you know this one isn&#039;t a common date?&quot; Just because something isn&#039;t unethical doesn&#039;t mean it is the right thing to do. I understand you brought it to his attention, and he still didn&#039;t change the price. But you knew it and didn&#039;t tell him it is worth way more. People make mistakes. Maybe he doesn&#039;t see too well, or maybe he was preoccupied with something more serious at the time. For me, I am not out to make a quick buck and am not motivated by money. It doesn&#039;t matter if everyone disagrees with me, and no one here will give me a response to win me over, nor am I looking for an argument, but I think it was wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>What if he was selling them only because he needed money for something important and every dollar counted? To say &quot;he should have known what he is selling&quot; is a very used-car-salesman response because it justifies taking advantage of another. </p><p><br /></p><p>The same logic goes the other way as well. If I buy a coin as a new collector and I didn&#039;t know it was harshly cleaned, or had a big scratch I didn&#039;t see, or the rim was bent, and the dealer knows it is a garbage coin, it isn&#039;t right to sell that to me without letting me know. To simply say &quot;I should know what I am buying&quot; is a cop out answer and comes off as sleazy and dishonest. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a lot of what I see with sellers on eBay. In my experience, there are more dishonest sellers of coins than honest ones, especially for raw coins. Altered photos, using stock photos, selling crackouts of details grades, trick lighting (angling it to mask blemishes, scratches, or ugly toning) are common place because people who got stuck with garbage want to pawn it off now to someone else. Can you imagine if all commerce were this way with the same rationales? </p><p><br /></p><p>This is what happens when your wallet is your guide instead of your conscience. Clearly the OP feels bad enough to pose the question because his conscience is tugging at him a bit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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