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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 179389, member: 112"]One more thing, there are two sides to being a coin dealer - selling and buying. What about the dealer who tells the customer, that knows nothing about coins, and who is trying to sell a passed loved one's collection - that the collection is only worth a fraction of what it is really worth ? Or the dealer that offers a collector standard book value for a coin that is a rare variety - just because the collector doesn't know anything about varieties ? Or the dealer, who when a collector comes in and offers a coin to sell, and he ask the collector how much ? The collector says $XX.00 - and the dealer says OK fine, when he really knows the coin is worth 10 times that ? Are these things not dishonest or unethical ? To me they are. And to me the dishonesty occurs more often on the buying side than it ever does on the selling side. My opinion of the whole issue - about 20% of coin dealers are what I consider honest.[/QUOTE]