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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dimefreak, post: 1179758, member: 24267&quot;]If there is one thing I love about this site it is that we can speak freely! I recently was giving the opportunity to secret shop the hotel coin buyers.Keep in mind I am young and have plenty of tattoos, but my knowledge in coins is tremendous. I went in and I was greeted very politely. They set me up with a lady. First thing I thought was dang it! I wanted the person giving me the appraisal to be a man. Wait, I am sorry they dont give appraisals they just make offers. ( We will get to this later <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p>So any ways I procede. I start to pull the coins out of my plastic meijers bag (I was really playing the part! :yes: ) As I am pulling them out I say something along the lines of &quot; My grandpa didn&#039;t take very good care of these coins as you can see they have patina all over them&quot; She replies &quot; Yes that is definitely going to take away from the value&quot; I reply &quot; So do you think I should try cleaning them really quick?&quot; Abruptly she replies &quot;NO!&quot; As most of you probably know the coins I am handing here are all absolute monsters! So I continue pulling them out of the bag trying not to laugh and I get to four of my rainbow toned gold coins all of which are PCGS slabbed. As I pull them out I say something along the lines of &quot; I dont even know if these are real gold....they look strange&quot; she replies &quot; Nope, nope those are no different than the president dollars.&quot; Me with a confused look on my face &quot;President dollars? her&quot; Have you ever seen the sacajewas dollars? Me &quot;yes&quot; Her &quot;These are the same exact thing&quot; Me &quot; Oh, dang it!&quot; Once again I am trying hard not to crack a smile or laugh. Then I grab a page of raw coins out and let her know that was all I brought. So at this moment she has on her table:</p><p>PCGS PR69 DCAM Madison Gold $5 Toned</p><p>PCGS PR69 DCAM 1988 Olympic Gold $5 Toned</p><p>PCGS PR69 DCAM Bill of Rights Gold $5 Toned</p><p>PCGS MS64 1908 Saint Gaudens Gold $20&nbsp; Toned</p><p>PCGS MS66 1964 Kennedy Monster Toned (I paid over $500)</p><p>PCGS MS65 1937 Buffalo Nickel Radioactive Toning</p><p>NGC MS66+ 1936S Oregon Trail Toned</p><p>NGC MS66 1938D Buffalo Nickel Toned</p><p>NGC MS64 1913 Buffalo Nickel Radioactive toning</p><p>NGC MS64 1944 Walking Liberty Half Dollar Gorgeous Toning</p><p>Than some raw coins that I will conservatively grade</p><p>MS64 1925 Peace Dollar Unbeleivable Toning!</p><p>MS62&nbsp; 1925 Peace Dollar Unbeleivable Toning!</p><p>MS64 1913 Buffalo Nickel&nbsp; Outrageous Toning!</p><p>MS67FB 1942D Mercury Dime! Very nice Toning!</p><p>MS65 1926 Oregon Trail Half Dollar. Maybe the nicest toned Oregon I ever seen!</p><p>MS66 1941 Jefferson Nickel RADIOACTIVE TONING X10 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So she fiddles with them a bit and than says &quot;ninety dollars&quot;. Yeap, girl didnt even blink an eye!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Now, I knew I was going to get lowballed and yes I am guilty of putting a lot of bait out there with my &quot;lack of knowledge&quot; but $90????? You guys have no idea how hard it was for me to not smile or laugh!I kind of stare at them and she says &quot; what are you trying to do?&quot; followed by &quot;are you trying to catch up on bills?&quot; I reply &quot; Yes I need to catch up before I lose my car&quot; She replies &quot; Well how much do you need?&quot; I say &quot; Like $200&quot; ( Inside im ROFLMAO) So she calls over her &quot;boss&quot;. He comes over and the first thing she says is &quot; He got these from his grandpa so I am trying to help him get the best price.&quot; Translation: This is a young punk that has no clue he has thousands of dollars worth of coins on our table so lets take him to the cleaners. He looks at me and says &quot;hi how are ya?&quot; I hold up one of the &quot;fake&quot; gold pieces and say &quot; Id be better if I found out these were real.&quot; He says &quot; Yea, if those were real we would have giving $4-500 a piece!&quot; Okay I gotta tell ya that at this point I am having just way to much fun toying with them and now that I see that two of them are in on this mess I feel I have confirmed that this operation is 100% Fraud. So while they are typing messages back and forth.........I mean trying to get me the best price<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I pull out my ANA PCGS and NGC Membership cards place them right in front of me and start packing my coins back into my Meijers bag. They look up from the computer and say &quot;what are you doing?&quot; I looked at them and said I will be honest with you, I was just $%^ing with you.&quot; Then I stand up and very loudly begin yelling at them both. Basically,&nbsp; I wanted to make sure that everybody in the room knew these folks were a scam. The was a few middle aged women to my right that had gold so I made sure they knew my gold was 100% real and I was being told it was fake. I wasn&#039;t really mad at them, after all this was the most fun I had in a while but I wanted to alert the folks that were potentially selling. So any who a guy walks up behind me and says &quot;your not scary&quot;.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Wait one doesnt suffice here we need like three of those faces <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Lets just say we had words and those turned into them insulting me which turned into me promising to make sure they never step foot in my town again which led to them laughing at me and informing me that they are a 300 million dollar operation....... So I am in the parking lot on my way to my car and I see two old ladies walking up. They have large bags in there hands and they asked what door to go in? No sooner than I go to talk three guys are running out telling me to get to my car!!! Go now before I call the police! ETC ETC&nbsp; I inform them that calling the police will not do anything but decide that I was rather heated and the best bet was to get in my ride and leave. So as I am leaving he yells &quot; You drive a saturn vue and think you can take us down?&quot;....:yes::yes::yes::yes::yes::yes::yes:&nbsp; That comment right there just stoked my fire! This is a fire that wont go out until I stop them from entering the city I live in ever again. BUt before I take the legal action I am going to spend all day friday in the parking lot handing out price guides. Why hand out price guides???? Well here is a direct quote from the 300 million dollar man himself</p><p>“We deal in used merchandise,” he said. “We don’t appraise. We tell people what we’re going to pay. It boils down to what a person will sell something for and what we’re willing to pay for it.You can prepare yourself with knowledge about an item if you want to.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Ill make sure to snap some photos of me handing out my price guides!:thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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