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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 731961, member: 13650&quot;]Whatever.&nbsp; You don&#039;t know anything about my collection.&nbsp; Or that most of my nicest stuff is slabbed or straight from the mint.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Your comment has nothing to do with trusting a dealer&#039;s judgement (when selling to them), on whether something has been cleaned or not.&nbsp; How often will they say anything in their inventory is cleaned so I&#039;m knocking &#039;X&#039; amount of dollars off the price?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;m willing to bet that if the average dealer can&#039;t tell, the default answer is cleaned.&nbsp;&nbsp; And maybe that just is the default answer period, because the next guy coming through the door doesn&#039;t know what the last guy was told.&nbsp; Or the previous 100 people.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a good premise for lowballing. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s a lot of liars mixed in with the good.&nbsp; To act like even the majority should be trusted is being disingenuous.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unless you have some personal stake in it yourself.&nbsp;&nbsp; The name of the game is to buy something off an uninformed seller for as cheap as possible.&nbsp; &nbsp; You can&#039;t tell me the majority will take the high ground.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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