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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1533190, member: 28199&quot;]He did not misrepresent the grade.&nbsp; You said the flip was marked AU, it came back AU.&nbsp; I think the protocol would be to eat your losses.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed, so then why is this the dealer&#039;s fault?&nbsp; You apparently had the opportunity to examine the coin before you paid for it (I haven&#039;t heard anything to the contrary).&nbsp; I agree with the others who say you should find another dealer.&nbsp; But I&#039;m not seeing that the dealer is wrong here. He offered you half of what you paid.&nbsp; He could have just as easily given you an alternate location into which you could shove that coin.&nbsp; You had the opportunity to examine the coin in hand (no pictures) and forked over the money to buy it.&nbsp; If you want to gamble on coins, you pay your money and take your chances.&nbsp; But you do have the chance to even the odds in your favor.&nbsp; A closer examination of the coin by a knowledgeable buyer would have shown the whizzing.&nbsp; How many of those &quot;sharp buyers&quot; you showed the coin to would have actually bought it from this guy at his price?&nbsp; Or would they have passed?</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Yep, apparently they do&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Like somebody else said, don&#039;t assume all dealers or coin sellers are &quot;experts&quot;.&nbsp; There&#039;s a big difference between &quot;knowledgeable&quot; and &quot;expert&quot;.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, the link to the actual article did not work for me, but it seemed in one of the posts that these guys were selling mail order.&nbsp; As in the case with eBay, there may or may not be cause for concern.&nbsp; But (if I read your original post correctly) you bought the coin at a show, with the opportunity to view it (with magnification) before you handed the dealer your money.&nbsp; Bottom line...You saw the coin, had the chance to examine it, and (should have) bought it based on what <b>you saw</b>.&nbsp; You then sent the coin in for grading, and now several months later(?) it comes back as not what you thought (based on what the dealer said, and not, apparently, what you actually saw).&nbsp; You rolled the dice and lost.&nbsp; Not really this guy&#039;s fault.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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