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Message:: [QUOTE="moneyer12, post: 1089281, member: 28233"]i tend to do a trial visit as one poster suggested i usually buy something very cheap and common and watch the reaction i get from the prson serving me, one well known UK dealer is right at the bottom of my list for service to joe public, he tends to look down his nose at people buying cheap coins as he must think that they are in some way inferior to the person who spends thousands on one coin. at the york fair last year i went to specifically buy a pontefract civil war siege piece he had on offer, and as i was waiting this dealer made a disparaging remark about a collector who was rooting through the bargain box, i was dressed very casually in rugby shirt and levis and on more than one occasion he walked past me to serve someone else who were better dresed. when he did finally aknowledge my presence i asked him about the siege piece (much to his surprise as it was £1200), he looked me up and down and asked if i was paying cash or did i want credit, i then told him that i thought he was an ignorant twat and as much as i wanted the coin i would rather go without it than buy it from him. in the end i bought the coin from another dealer for £850 in the same condition....needless to say i would never look at his stand again if hell had me.[/QUOTE]