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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;avr5700, post: 1295874, member: 30063&quot;]I have a great local coin shop within two miles of me.&nbsp; Oddly enough, the owner does not try to sell PM but does buy it (and then promptly resell it down the road actually).&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t get a lot of coin business that I can see, but is keeping the place running along anyway.&nbsp; There are a group of &#039;regulars&#039; that I&#039;ve begun to recognize and visa-verso.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost a club - also a Saturday morning thing for most.</p><p><br /></p><p>Haggling is a sure fire way for this particular dealer to push his prices up.&nbsp; He readily admits to doing that with customers that he knows like to haggle.&nbsp; In the end, he often gets a better price than he would with a no-haggle customer (that is a regular no-haggle type).&nbsp; Seems fair to me.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t like it when the grey sheet gets pulled out and a price is determined from those bid/ask columns (along with an opinion of grade to boot), but like others here, I just don&#039;t buy if that&#039;s not something I think is good enough for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, retail haggling can be successful too.&nbsp; Just ask for a manager and say &#039;can you do better than $xxx?&#039;.&nbsp; I&#039;ve not tried it, but others say this actually can work and what&#039;s the harm in asking in any environment?&nbsp; The U.S. just doesn&#039;t engage in this routinely out of habit/cultural norms (except for cars/real estate of course...).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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