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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OldGoldGuy, post: 2039675, member: 72697&quot;]Never said a thing about intentional deception. More along the lines of competency. If you bought a used car from someone and found out that the (blank, insert random car part) was being held together by duct tape, one would probably be a little peeved. The fact that the used car salesman had to honor the lemon law doesn&#039;t make him a good used car salesman. The truth, and I am confused as to why you feel you need to defend this gentleman against an argument I am not even making, is that these gold pieces scream fake, and that is to an untrained sovereign buying eye (mine).</p><p><br /></p><p>My point, however misinterpreted it has become to this point, is that the dealer did not catch a fake he was selling. Honoring a return isn&#039;t going above and beyond; it is actually required by the payment method accepted. Bare minimum. Look at it from the buyers perspective, who I personally think is being too nice; he has lost time now, and a gift idea for his child is most likely ruined due to timing, and at the least, is now stressed to make it by the holiday.</p><p><br /></p><p>To date, I have purchased one fake coin. It was a SLQ that was in a roll of silver quarters I purchased as part of a collection, which I did not find until I opened the rolls roughly a week later. I immediately threw it into my &quot;to be melted down&quot; pile as it tested positive for silver. I am by no means a SLQ expert. But the mushy details, strange fields, chunky date, etc, all screamed &quot;fake&quot;. I do not consider myself to be a dealer as I secure my income from my businesses in other industries, however, I feel I did the hobby a &quot;solid&quot; by removing the coin from inexperienced hands in the future. So, with that in mind, myself, by no means a &quot;dealer&quot;, caught a fake, and removed it from circulation. Is it POSSIBLE that I have purchased and resold a fake in my years involved in the coin world? Sure, anything is possible if that is the argument one wants to make. </p><p><br /></p><p>Would I buy from a dealer who owned these gold coins, who must have at one point looked at each coin individually as he &quot;tested&quot; them for gold content? No. And here is why; before I pass my money across the table to purchase something, the ultimate responsibility of knowing what one is buying falls on me. But don&#039;t we all want to try and limit the number of occurrences where this could happen? I do. Therefore I would refrain from browsing this dealers inventory. Again, nothing intentional in the deception, simply just a question of his competency. If hearing my argument (and solely my opinion) is going to start a frenzy, I don&#039;t know what to tell you. Sure, I am new to the forum and this dealer is, cough, well established, so I guess the value of my opinion plummets in comparison. Meanwhile, my method leaves me less exposed than those that don&#039;t see this transaction the same way I do, and that is fine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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