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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 878048, member: 8033&quot;]Joey0053,</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel I have to answer this one as there are so many views and all of them right depending on how you look at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I work in a shop and although I wouldn&#039;t be that rude with you as a customer the bottom line to dealers is REALLY it&#039;s a bullion coin. It&#039;s a piece of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where I work we&#039;ve already gone through a few &quot;monster boxes&quot;. A &quot;monster box&quot; contains 25 rolls (500 pieces). So figure we have gone through at least 1000 coins and at no time has my boss asked me to inspect each one to find a potential MS70.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would take me a long time and cost him money because I get paid by the hour. NOW, if I stand there and watch a customer go through 3 rolls looking for the perfect coin he is paying me to stand there and watch a guy. In other words he will most likely LOSE on the transaction. It&#039;s a business after all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spending $100 a month at a shop is most likely not a big deal to the owner. I know it sounds rough but it&#039;s reality. I was a customer a VERY long time before I started working for my employer.</p><p>I learned this very quickly when I set foot on the OTHER side of the counter. You are still a valuable customer but if the guy can make $1000 by spending five minutes on the phone or making $2 for 15 minutes on the floor guess where his mind is at?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s really hard to work yourself into that &quot;I spend $100 a month club&quot; and get treated well. It IS possible though.</p><p>I should know. I did it and now I work there so don&#039;t give up on your dealer just realize he has bigger things going on. Those bigger things keep him going as a business and allow him to cater to smaller things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Establishing yourself as a &quot;regular&quot; takes time but can be well worth it and from the sound of it you have a decent dealer. As you gain trust they&#039;ll let you look at more WITHOUT being there to monitor. We simply count what is given to you to look at and count what is there when you&#039;re done.</p><p><br /></p><p>One customer I wait on has spent a lot over the years in small increments. He&#039;s very trusted. If he&#039;s buying the newest quarter he wants a good one. I gladly show him what we have in &quot;open stock&quot;. If he finds one he likes he buys it. If he doesn&#039;t I&#039;m not going to start opening rolls to make a 25 cent profit. </p><p>He knows this and I know this yet he gets the same respect as a customer dropping 10K because he&#039;s paid his dues as it were.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t agree with the &quot;it will cost you more to cherrypick&quot; remark but I&#039;ve also seen my boss make similar remarks.</p><p>Having been at the shop for two years now I can be that way at times as well. Time is money after all and if I spend an hour to sell two bullion coins and the shop nets a profit of $4 it&#039;s not time well spent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please consider this and keep frequenting your local shop.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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