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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1252726, member: 29751&quot;]I&#039;m just fighting fire with fire, as condescension and omniscience seem to be your forte.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point of my post was that if a shop that advertises itself as one having collectible coins, then I expect as much.&nbsp; If they want to re-invent themselves as a metals exchange, or a stamp shop, or a baseball card shop, or a candy store, then they should have the respect of their patrons to admit as much.&nbsp; I don&#039;t honestly care what they wish to be, and now I know definitively that I will never return to this little shop.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The hobby the OP was referring to was &quot;coin collecting&quot; if I am not mistaken.&nbsp; I do not see what your grandmothers gold bracelet, silver earrings, and platinum wedding band has to do with the hobby of coin collecting.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t lamenting the exchange of bullion ASEs/AGEs or other (quasi) numismatic items.&nbsp; I am mostly annoyed by the fact that most coin shops have been hijacked by the &quot;metals craze&quot; as make-shift jewelry exchanges.&nbsp; I watched a man at a coin show last weekend dig out a gold dental crown (yes tooth shaped and all) from a little baggie.&nbsp; The dealer was more worried about weighing out this little disgusting tooth shaped blob of metal than helping his other customers who were interested in buying some high priced slabbed coins.&nbsp; (If anyone is wondering, that little blob of metal got the old-guy $111!!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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