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Message:: [QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 1958919, member: 20480"]I don't care to do business with anyone who considers it fair to take a free ride on someone else's advertising expenses to make sales. The closest I've ever come is the following situation, on several occasions over the past 30 years or so: <blockquote>When on the public side of a table, I've seen a customer ask for a certain coin, and the dealer apologetically reply that he had none.  After waiting until the customer was about to leave the table, I asked the dealer if I might show the customer a coin which he asked about. I have never been refused under those circumstances, and if I recall correctly, the coin ended up selling every time.  In every case, I gave the dealer a decent piece of the proceeds, for which he was grateful . . . </blockquote>I should point out that while the transaction was mutually beneficial to all, given that the customer had already decided to leave the dealer's table without having made a purchase, I still approached the above dealers with some hesitation, and very diplomatically.  Every case is different, and should be handled as such. In no case . . . ever . . . would I recommend offering to a dealer's customer a coin without involving the dealer in the profit.[/QUOTE]