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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 3383619, member: 16729"]I can sympathize...</p><p><br /></p><p>Forget about the negative people at school. If your experience will be anything like mine was, after you leave school, you won't be seeing them ever again. Well, 95% of them anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, older collectors will look down on you, and think less of you. And because of your age. It's completely unfair and that attitude could come back to bite these same people if they are dealers who own a coin business. I never went back to any business where they laughed at my name or called me "kid" or didn't at least deal with me like an adult customer. When I was 15, I looked like I was 9; when I was 22, I looked like I was 15; which made MANY aspects of my life hard. And the baby-face didn't really go away until I hit my mid-30s. The only thing I thought I could do back then was to deliberately do fiercely loyal business with those who treated me as they would any other customer, and to go out of my way to shun those from whom I had detected the tiniest snub. I thought it was my only way to deal with it. I'm not sure that I was right about doing that, but...</p><p><br /></p><p>That experience taught me that <b>people DO judge books by their covers</b>, and most of the time! Buying an expensive, <u>good-fitting</u> expensive ($1,000+) suit, shoes and ties did wonders for me. And it still does.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 3383619, member: 16729"]I can sympathize... Forget about the negative people at school. If your experience will be anything like mine was, after you leave school, you won't be seeing them ever again. Well, 95% of them anyway. Yes, older collectors will look down on you, and think less of you. And because of your age. It's completely unfair and that attitude could come back to bite these same people if they are dealers who own a coin business. I never went back to any business where they laughed at my name or called me "kid" or didn't at least deal with me like an adult customer. When I was 15, I looked like I was 9; when I was 22, I looked like I was 15; which made MANY aspects of my life hard. And the baby-face didn't really go away until I hit my mid-30s. The only thing I thought I could do back then was to deliberately do fiercely loyal business with those who treated me as they would any other customer, and to go out of my way to shun those from whom I had detected the tiniest snub. I thought it was my only way to deal with it. I'm not sure that I was right about doing that, but... That experience taught me that [B]people DO judge books by their covers[/B], and most of the time! Buying an expensive, [U]good-fitting[/U] expensive ($1,000+) suit, shoes and ties did wonders for me. And it still does.[/QUOTE]
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