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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 7406190, member: 8033&quot;]An interesting topic with interesting viewpoints and replies as well.</p><p>Here&#039;s my two cents on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>People want to be rich and they get excited. It&#039;s that simple and it&#039;s human nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until health reasons put me on disability I worked in a coin shop for about 10 years. For the most part I really loved it.</p><p>I was able to teach a lot of people new to the hobby a lot and help them pursue their passion. Often helping them IDENTIFY their passion.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was no big deal to me to go through a pile of face value change or currency from those wanting to be rich and gently let them down.</p><p>I&#039;ve seen enough &quot;gift shop&quot; Confederate paper money to last a lifetime, boatloads of basically worthless money from &quot;my grandfather&#039;s souvenirs from WWII&quot; and the like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where else would somebody bring these things for an opinion but a coin shop? I doubt Arbys or the dry cleaners would be of much help.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said coin dealers can be a truly rude lot. I can understand why. My old boss can be extremely rude but he&#039;s been in business since 1966 and been seeing this for a very long time.</p><p>In my time there I pulled a lot of people in for him by actually spending some time with them.</p><p>Still, a small percentage compared to how many will never set foot in a shop again.</p><p><br /></p><p>One incident in particular stands out to me. Now I haven&#039;t worked at the shop since late 2017 but a lady came in one day and literally slammed 5 Washington quarters on the counter.</p><p>She then asked me if I could see the error on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I examined them and replied I could not she told me she saw it on the internet. Well, I countered with the old &quot;well you saw it on the internet it must be true&quot; line.</p><p>This did not please here.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s right folks she was convinced she had the rare quarters that were minted on 1947 Canadian planchets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I told her they weren&#039;t but she was insistent and asked what I would pay her for them.</p><p>She was not amused when I told her 25 cents each.</p><p><br /></p><p>She became a bit belligerent so I changed my offer to 20 cents each. Well, she stormed out but not before telling me and every customer in the shop that I was not only ignorant but rude.</p><p><br /></p><p>I apologized to the other customers and went about my business.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;ll never claim to know everything about everything but in this case I wasn&#039;t ignorant. Rude? Guilty as charged your honor.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward to a few months ago.</p><p>I stopped in a different shop to visit a dealer I&#039;ve know some 30 years. One of MY mentors actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>We got to chit chatting and I told him of this incident. Turns out she&#039;d been to HIS shop before ours and he told her basically the same thing.</p><p>I thanked him for sending an already upset &quot;customer&quot; my way to inflict her wrath on me.</p><p>We got a real good laugh out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point?</p><p><br /></p><p>This is going to happen. Especially on a forum this large.</p><p><br /></p><p>Solution? If it irritates you then don&#039;t bother to read the thread.</p><p>You don&#039;t even have to be construed as rude, ignorant or any other adjective that pops to mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>If my comments don&#039;t please you then refrain from reading them. It won&#039;t hurt my feelings because I won&#039;t know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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