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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6774777, member: 19463"]I can accept incompetent business practices and accidents caused by listing coins in several places and not deleting all when sold BUT not when I suspect something that I consider dishonest like cancelling your sale because someone called the next day and offered more. Much of the hobby is based on keeping your word. In the old days, people sealed a deal with a handshake. Today are we to allow anything and everything? Years ago (30?), I bought a coin by phone reservation and mailed check. In those days phone reservations were accepted pending arrival of a check in a certain number of days. They returned my check a week later. After that, I got a note that the 'second' buyer (a friend and insider of theirs) told them that they should send the coin to me. That person was playing by what I call the 'old rules'. The dealer did not then value my little business which they lost even though I returned my check and got the coin. I still hold that incident against that seller and avoid looking at his material. The old saying was that it takes a thousand Atta-boys to erase one Aw-shucks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6774777, member: 19463"]I can accept incompetent business practices and accidents caused by listing coins in several places and not deleting all when sold BUT not when I suspect something that I consider dishonest like cancelling your sale because someone called the next day and offered more. Much of the hobby is based on keeping your word. In the old days, people sealed a deal with a handshake. Today are we to allow anything and everything? Years ago (30?), I bought a coin by phone reservation and mailed check. In those days phone reservations were accepted pending arrival of a check in a certain number of days. They returned my check a week later. After that, I got a note that the 'second' buyer (a friend and insider of theirs) told them that they should send the coin to me. That person was playing by what I call the 'old rules'. The dealer did not then value my little business which they lost even though I returned my check and got the coin. I still hold that incident against that seller and avoid looking at his material. The old saying was that it takes a thousand Atta-boys to erase one Aw-shucks.[/QUOTE]
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