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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2540844, member: 19250&quot;]Unfortunately&nbsp; I have a similar&nbsp; story.....</p><p>I work the door at a coin show in Timonium&nbsp; Md. About 6-8 times a year.A few of the members&nbsp; here have also been&nbsp; to this show and&nbsp; we know each other face to face .</p><p>About 4 shows ago an older man walks in . I asked him to sign&nbsp; in and if I could direct&nbsp; him as to what he was looking for.</p><p>He told me he had items to sell. I should&nbsp; of guessed as he had 3 rather large&nbsp; shopping&nbsp; bags.</p><p>I often ask the customer&nbsp; as I can direct&nbsp; them to the person who sells mostly foreign coins and currency , or to another dealer&nbsp; who may have&nbsp; exactly&nbsp; what the customer&nbsp; is looking for.</p><p>So I direct the older man over to a dealer who was buying.</p><p>And went about watching&nbsp; the room and greeting customers&nbsp; as they entered.</p><p>So I see Ralph&nbsp; going through&nbsp; this guys boxes. Very nice boxes in fact so nice the boxes were for the most part worth more than what was inside them.</p><p>TV garbage boxes full&nbsp; of crap! Coin and medal sets that you couldn&#039;t&nbsp; give away. He did have a set of the 5 ASE that was the only thing he had of any value.</p><p>He had a binder full of pages of the documents&nbsp;&nbsp; that came with the sets as well as the paper work of what he was charged.</p><p>One of his grand children&nbsp; needed some money so he was going to sell his treasures to help them out!</p><p>I was so sadden as Ralph&nbsp; kept telling&nbsp; him what he had was more or less worthless. I will also add in the most polite way possible&nbsp; as he too could see the disparity&nbsp; in the man&#039;s face.</p><p>I also felt bad steering&nbsp; him to Ralph as for over two hours went by with Ralph&nbsp; looking at everything&nbsp; and saying no.</p><p>I helped&nbsp; the man back to his car as it was a large amount of wood boxes as well as others made from assorted&nbsp; material&#039;s .</p><p>As he got into the car he thanked me for my help. And to this day I see his face ....the face of a broken man who believed what he was told by the TV pitch man.</p><p>I seen the sorrow&nbsp; in his heart as he just wanted to sell his treasures&nbsp; to help out a loved family&nbsp; member.</p><p>It&#039;s&nbsp; truly&nbsp; sad to see another person&nbsp; taken by a situation&nbsp; like this...yes true buyer beware!</p><p>Stories&nbsp; like this need to be told.... as we need to protect&nbsp; our hobby&nbsp; from the snakes whom prey on those&nbsp; who know no better.</p><p>And lastly I to believe&nbsp; in KARMA both the good as well as the bad. And it&#039;s&nbsp; going to get you one way or the other .</p><p>I seldom&nbsp; wish bad on another but must confess&nbsp; that day words that cannot&nbsp; be used here as well as very ill&nbsp;&nbsp; feeling spouted from me.</p><p>I can only hope&nbsp; that the old man found away to solve&nbsp; the&nbsp; problems&nbsp; he and his family&nbsp; had.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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