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<p>[QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 1783284, member: 9474"]Here is an ethical question for the group to debate. </p><p>First, many of you may know what a Cherrypicker is. For those of you who don't....a Cherrypicker is someone who looks for coins that may have an error or variety and buys them at regular price unbeknownst to the seller because the seller does not know what it is. Pretty simple.</p><p> </p><p>But here is the question......what if you cherrypicked a well known variety from the dealer. It is so well known that it is not only in the Cherrypickers Guide, but in the Red Book. It wasn't marked or noted that it was a variety on the 2x2. When checking out, the dealer picks up the coin and looks it over so as to give you a fair price. Then proceeds to ask if this is the "so called" variety. You respond no (but secretly know that it is), knowing full well that if you said yes, that they would charge you for the variety. But even after they look over the coin and know that a variety exists for the coin, they obviously don't know where to look to determine if it is the variety in question.</p><p> </p><p>Should you have said something?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 1783284, member: 9474"]Here is an ethical question for the group to debate. First, many of you may know what a Cherrypicker is. For those of you who don't....a Cherrypicker is someone who looks for coins that may have an error or variety and buys them at regular price unbeknownst to the seller because the seller does not know what it is. Pretty simple. But here is the question......what if you cherrypicked a well known variety from the dealer. It is so well known that it is not only in the Cherrypickers Guide, but in the Red Book. It wasn't marked or noted that it was a variety on the 2x2. When checking out, the dealer picks up the coin and looks it over so as to give you a fair price. Then proceeds to ask if this is the "so called" variety. You respond no (but secretly know that it is), knowing full well that if you said yes, that they would charge you for the variety. But even after they look over the coin and know that a variety exists for the coin, they obviously don't know where to look to determine if it is the variety in question. Should you have said something?[/QUOTE]
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