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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ccg, post: 179258, member: 1276&quot;]-No problems for me about 90% of the time. Only know of one brick-and-mortar dealers who has a habit of overgrading 1-2 grades on a regular basis (but undergrade by the same when buying!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some rude dealers, but the only ones who have ripped me off were vest pocket dealers:</p><p><br /></p><p>-Vest pocket dealer at a show overcharged. Instead of stating that I was shortchanged a few dollars, I simply asked some others I knew, who confirmed that that particular person has a habit of squeezing</p><p>-three cases of buying an item on ebay that sold cheaply, and &quot;dissappeared&quot; in the mail</p><p>-one case of an ebay purchase where the seller intentionally included modern counterfeits in a lot without stating so in the description (admitted in emails later on.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also had two trades (collector/collector) where the other party did not send anything in return.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have encountered pawn shops and antique shops with way overpriced coins, but excluded those from my number above as I don&#039;t consider them to be coin dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for pricing, I consider it fair for a dealer to charge more than catalogue or the usual value for ancient and medieval coinage, as some of it is hard to come across, and attribution can often be time-consuming (or virtually impossible if you don&#039;t have hundreds of dollars worth of the right catalgoues). On ocassion I happily pay over &quot;fair value&quot; for ancient and medieval pieces. In some cases, the catalgoue values are too low, and it&#039;s the only way to obtain the material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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