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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Player11, post: 1216080, member: 26725&quot;]I absolutely hate people who will try to horn in on a deal either at my shop or at my table at a show. This is always a possibility when a large deal is involved or one which may draw attention. In my shop I have a separate area to take customers with material to sell where the deal wont be interrupted. At a show, if someone trys to horn in I have no problem getting them to leave the table. There is an art to doing this without scaring off the potential seller too. I have seen dealers get security to prevent someone from horning in on their deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your in a shop to transact business wait your turn. It really is none of your business what a dealer is doing with other customers. You may want to communicate politely your there to sell or looking to buy (specific material) if the dealer seems perceptive to why your there. A sharp dealer will want to know why your there in the event it is a super deal walking in. When I see someone come in the shop I try to quickly find out why they are there. A shrewd dealer will quickly cull out the people he cant quickly buy and sell with at his price in a crowded shop. He has to concentrate on the targets he has a chance of hitting. I have an assistant and will have her help someone routine if a deal walks in and then I give that deal my full attention with the goal of executing it quickly. </p><p><br /></p><p>At a show I once had a whale at my table on a world currency deal. He was looking up every piece in his book (which took a lot of time) and was willing to pay essentially Krause CV (market retail). To keep the deal going I was keeping a tally sheet (along with cost codes) and discounting the notes about 5% below CV while making about 100% profit or more on each one and this at a dead show. Each note had a cost and retail code so I could just simply hit the ground running. It was so exciting and a great boost to what had been a horrible show with slow sales. The currency deal went on for thee or four hours, was huge, and I more than doubled my money. There were two interruptions - first some guy wanted to take a coin from one of my other cases to show another dealer for an opinion (hate these people). I quickly told him I don&#039;t allow this and he left. Another was more persistent probably after my whale. He probably wanted to horn in on the deal and said he had a large quantity of African notes to sell (like many I was making fantastic profit on) so I simply told him to come back a little later as I was busy. He left seeing he had been stuffed in the backfield. He came awhile later a little more persistent and this time I firmly told him I did not have time (and that he could come back the next day) and igonored him. Knowing I would stand my ground with him if push came to shove he eventually left. I concluded the currency deal with the coustomer and he came back the next day to buy some more as there were some stacks he had not been thru. With hundreds of slabbed coins and a couple dozen graded USA notes in my cases I was in disbelief World Currency (a tiny portion dollar wise of my inventory at the show) had outsold them all and at a huge profit margin to boot![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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