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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3912994, member: 105098"]Like all coin shops are basically pawn shops/consignment shops. Most everything is second hand or more.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be true it could be false. He could have a lot of it there on consignment hoping to sell them for people, he could buy collections and owns them and sells them and says "it's on loan" in a way to avoid people haggling on prices. "Nope I can't come down on this, I'm selling for someone else."</p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds slightly worse than my LCS but not by much. At my LCS anything you are interested in buying he will give it a once over before he completes the sale and will change the price if it's a variety he missed, effectively destroying any chance of cherry picking unless he just doesn't know about it and his books doesn't have it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I only go there if I have to. Not worth the effort. Pawn shops are better to cherry pick from. Lol. Gotta be careful of the fakes though, they will claim ignorance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3912994, member: 105098"]Like all coin shops are basically pawn shops/consignment shops. Most everything is second hand or more. It could be true it could be false. He could have a lot of it there on consignment hoping to sell them for people, he could buy collections and owns them and sells them and says "it's on loan" in a way to avoid people haggling on prices. "Nope I can't come down on this, I'm selling for someone else." It sounds slightly worse than my LCS but not by much. At my LCS anything you are interested in buying he will give it a once over before he completes the sale and will change the price if it's a variety he missed, effectively destroying any chance of cherry picking unless he just doesn't know about it and his books doesn't have it. I only go there if I have to. Not worth the effort. Pawn shops are better to cherry pick from. Lol. Gotta be careful of the fakes though, they will claim ignorance.[/QUOTE]
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