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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1479922, member: 27832"]I guess, based on the posts so far in this thread, we can add another suggestion: if you come across people discussing general advice, and your first response is to mock them, denigrate them, and even call them liars -- well, it's true, a coin show probably isn't the place for you. You're probably much better off staying at home in the basement. Sheesh. With that out of the way, here are a couple of other show-etiquette scenarios: 1) I found a 1913 Barber half in the junk silver bin at a dealer's table. For whatever reason, I decided to point it out to them, instead of picking it. That got me a discount on the other coins I bought from the bin, and another $20 on a silver+gold proof set I sold to that dealer. 2) A few months later, I sold some unmarked .999 rounds to that same dealer, around 8% back of melt. Chatting afterward, I let slip that I'd gotten them for about 25% of that -- bought them as "metal content unknown" from eBay, and got lucky. Apparently that offended the guys behind the counter -- the next day, when I brought in a PCGS MS70 2006-W burnished $50 AGE, they offered me $100 below melt. Yeah, right. So, being nice to the dealer can get you better deals, and offending them can cost you. Even if "there are no rules".[/QUOTE]