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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1394914, member: 16948&quot;]I know this is&nbsp; nothing serious and may be nit-picking to some, but I am curious since&nbsp; I&#039;ve encountered this issue on several occasions so I hope you&#039;ll&nbsp; indulge me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In an dealer directory that includes a company name&nbsp; (like for coin shows), if a dealer&#039;s business name begins with the word&nbsp; &quot;The,&quot; do you search under the &quot;T&#039;s&quot; for the company or do you search&nbsp; for them under the next word in their name like &quot;P&quot; for &quot;The Penny&nbsp; Lady&quot;?&nbsp; Or do you first look for the dealer in the listing under the&nbsp; dealer&#039;s individual last name (or even first name)?</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason I&nbsp; ask is that I have had customers at some shows tell me they couldn&#039;t&nbsp; find me in the show directory - that&#039;s when I discovered I was listed&nbsp; under &quot;T.&quot;&nbsp; I even looked at the online PCGS authorized dealer&nbsp; directory, and sure enough, I&#039;m listed under &quot;T&quot; along with every other&nbsp; company that begins with &quot;The.&quot;&nbsp; I realize this may be due to computer&nbsp; databases that do the alphabetizing automatically, but to me as a&nbsp; dealer, this can be quite frustrating because customers may not be able&nbsp; to locate our table number, and any company beginning with &quot;The&quot; can&nbsp; lose business because of this simple alphabetizing error.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&nbsp; don&#039;t know about you, but I was taught in school to drop the word &quot;the&quot;&nbsp; and any other &quot;non-significant word&quot; when alphabetizing names or&nbsp; phrases.&nbsp; And I was also taught to alphabetize personal names by their&nbsp; last name.&nbsp; How about you?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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