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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 884629, member: 112&quot;]And why is that a bait and switch ? Bait and switch is when someone offers to sell you something, but when you go to buy they don&#039;t have it and offer to sell you something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are describing is nothing out of the ordinary at all. It is a dealer basing his offer to you on the coins themselves - rather than on what the pastic says they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;d be hard pressed to find a single day on this forum where somebody does not say - buy the coin and not the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if that is a good policy for you as a collector, why is not a good policy for a dealer ?</p><p><br /></p><p>How many times have seen someone post a coin in a TPG slab that says the coin is a 63 and yet have me say that the coin is really an AU55 ? Or the slab says the coin is a 66 and I say no it&#039;s a 64 ?</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll see that every day too.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is, just because a dealer tells you the coins you are trying to sell him are over-graded - that doesn&#039;t mean the dealer is trying to rip you off. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the coins really are over-graded, and you are the one who made the mistake when you bought them.</p><p><br /></p><p>That saying about buy the coin and not the slab - where do you think that saying comes from ? It comes from dealers who make their living buying and selling coins. And if they screw up, they don&#039;t make a living. They learn rather quickly not to screw up.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you screw up, you&#039;re out the extra, but it&#039;s no big deal really. You still get to eat and pay your bills. They don&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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