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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1060096, member: 57463"]I am lucky to live in SE Michigan.  The ANA was founded here and this has always been a nexus for numismatics.  But shops are as individual as their owners.  You have to think of yourself as making the experience for them.  Regardless of the owners or clerks, I generally try to focus on my own business, and observe the traffic.  That said, I have walked out (quietly) rather than put up with an owner's idiotic opinions on other people's religions.  I saw another shop owner look at the Greysheet and "quote" a price actually not printed there, just to low-ball a customer.  On the other hand, there's a local dealer, whether I am buying or selling, when I walk in and walk out, I get the prices pretty much that I expected with no surprises.  But he doesn't share much information.  Another shop, I never find what I want, but I learn a lot about other stuff. The same applies to coin shows.  We have four or five a month within an hour's drive of everywhere.  Who you see, who sets up, who walks the floor, it depends.  Some shows are folksy downhome affairs one week and not so warm the next.[/QUOTE]