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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1653875, member: 11854&quot;]What you will see come into the door on a daily basis-</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Silver plated spoons and knives that have no bullion value, but you will spend many minutes with each customer convincing folks you cannot pay them for the pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Silverware with bullion value, but no real collector value.&nbsp; You will have to disassemble many pieces to determine what is silver and what is plated.&nbsp; Folks will balk at receiving only an offer based upon the silver value since it has been in the family for generations.&nbsp; You have no retail clients at all for this material and have to save it and then wholesale it in bulk for a few percent below current spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) Circulated war nickels and Wheat cents by the bagful that you pay almost nothing for and sell in bulk a few times a year to wholesalers.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) Worn silver coinage bought as junk silver and flipped to the next customer.</p><p><br /></p><p>5) The oddball AGE inherited from grandpa.</p><p><br /></p><p>6) Rings, rings, rings, rings, rings.&nbsp; Some stolen, some given as gifts, some from those recently divorced.&nbsp; You had better know if the stones are real, what type of stones they are and their quality or else they must all be treated as fake.&nbsp; You will also have to take apart and junk virtually all the rings to sell as bulk metal to a wholesaler.</p><p><br /></p><p>7) Earrings.&nbsp; They will have to be declined or bought only to scrap due to local ordinances regarding buying and selling used earrings.</p><p><br /></p><p>8) Metal detector and house renovation finds.</p><p><br /></p><p>9) Requests for bullion.</p><p><br /></p><p>10) Every other customer will want to pawn a cell phone, a digital camera or a laptop.</p><p><br /></p><p>11) Scrubbed clean type bought online.&nbsp; You will be the bad guy who tells them that their F12, scrubbed white and hairlined to death 1875-S twenty-cent piece <i>isn&#039;t </i> worth the $450 they paid to a company selling them on cable TV.</p><p><br /></p><p>12) State quarters and State quarter albums.&nbsp; You offer face value for AU coins and you earn a reputation as a crook.</p><p><br /></p><p>13) Counterfeit Morgans, Trade dollars and ASEs walked in on the chance that you will bite.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, yes, local law enforcement paperwork for all bullion-based transactions and this might take up a few hours a day based upon how much you buy or sell.&nbsp; Requirements that make you hold many bullion pieces for 30-or 60-days to make certain they are not stolen.&nbsp; It won&#039;t matter if you are armed to the teeth and that you never bring inventory home because folks do not know that or will refuse to believe it.&nbsp; You are a target.&nbsp; Your family is a target.&nbsp; Every customer who walks in is a potential threat to life and property.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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