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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 57565, member: 1235&quot;]Welcome to the forum!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It seems like you had a pretty sour experience with your collection.&nbsp; I hope it doesn&#039;t color your view, but from his perspective - 1,400 or 3,000 is a lot of money.&nbsp; Maybe not yours, but it could be for him, and the majority of those that come in to sell their inherited coin collection... it is for me, and I do pretty well for myself.&nbsp; I think you mentioned that you own a business yourself (with your husband) so you know what it&#039;s like to exist on the margin.&nbsp; if you spend 3,000 on your goods, you need to turn that around for 3,300 to realize a 10% profit - and then you have volume issues.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m not justifying his behavior - not in the slightest - but if he has a shop, and makes a living at it, chances are better than not that he knows quite a bit about his trade.&nbsp; It&#039;s not an absolute, but it&#039;s a safe bet.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don&#039;t take this wrong, but it seems to me that you were walking into a situation in which you know very little, or less than the other guy, about the subject matter at hand - and it sounds like you found that a little intimidating.&nbsp; I don&#039;t mean that negative at all, in my opinion you were doing the right thing by talking to someone who deals in the business - but this guy you were talking to goes through this eight or nine times a month, I would bet...&nbsp; 90% of the people in your shoes expect to retire on that suitcase you wheeled into his shop, and he has to be in the unfortunate position to explain that just is not going to happen.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One more thing to keep in mind - you said you walked into a somewhat busy small shop, and you weren&#039;t looking to buy or sell.&nbsp; Every minute he&#039;s talking to you, is a minute he&#039;s not working with someone.&nbsp; Maybe you came at his peak business&nbsp; hours, and he does this for a living - who knows?&nbsp; he may feed children on dealings with those people in his shop.&nbsp; If you went back in a slower time, you may find a completely different person behind that counter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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