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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1533497, member: 28199&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">No, it&#039;s not.&nbsp; You seem to have a one-way attitude when it comes to this transaction.&nbsp; You want the dealer to be responsible for the loss, but are not willing to accept the responsibility for an apparent lack of knowledge in buying a coin that you examined (or should have) prior to making the purchase.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bingo.&nbsp; And how did these collectors become seasoned?&nbsp; Experience.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure they all got burned during the &quot;seasoning&quot;.&nbsp; They chalk it up to a lesson learned.&nbsp; They don&#039;t come on an internet forum complaining.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apples to oranges.&nbsp; Unscrupulous sellers on eBay used mail order, doctored or fuzzy pictures, bad written descriptions, or failure to send the merchandise.&nbsp; None of these factor into your situation.&nbsp; You had the coin in hand, had the magnification to closely examine it (or, maybe a rookie mistake not bringing a loupe to a coin show), had the opportunity to ask specific questions directly to the seller (has this coin been cleaned?, it looks like it&#039;s been whizzed) and hand the coin back if the answers to those questions were not to your satisfaction.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If this is not the dealer in question, then this statement is irrelevant.&nbsp; We all know some shady characters.&nbsp; Most of us avoid them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I still think the case you cite is not the same.&nbsp; First of all, this was a large volume dealer.&nbsp; Are you implying the dealer in your case has &quot;ripped off&quot; thousands of customers.&nbsp; We really haven&#039;t established that he ripped you off yet.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why complain to show managers?&nbsp; What was so unfair about this transaction?&nbsp; The dealer marked his flip as &quot;AU&quot;.&nbsp; It came back &quot;AU&quot;, details because of the whizzing.&nbsp; You had the opportunity to look at the coin, in hand, and ask the dealer if the marks you noticed were from cleaning or whizzing.&nbsp; Even if you did, and he said &quot;No&quot;, you should have suspected (since in my scenario, you noticed suspicious marks and asked) this was a problem coin, and put your money back in your pocket and walked away.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still siding with the dealer on this one.&nbsp; It still doesn&#039;t look like he did anything blatantly wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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