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<p>[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 3428274, member: 73983"]Very good topic! I have quite a few LCS around my parts and I am very fortunate to get a chance to visit them all as frequently as I can. My favorite, which is just 5 minutes from the house does pretty much everything positive. He actively engages with YN's and clearly prices his entire inventory. The one downside is that he does not always mark problem coins appropriately. I've have come across several coins that were cleaned, but not marked so. Most of the time they are easy to spot, others I have not noticed until I get home and view it under my desk lamp. He does make up for it in a way though. He allows me to return a coin that I find an issue with after I get home and never gives me any grief for it. Now thankfully it does not happen much, only 3 times in the last 5 years or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest of the shops in the Portland area are typically friendly, some focus on bullion while a few others are more numismatically oriented. The bullion dealers don't usually have any prices marked and the numismatic shops do price their inventory. The dealers with prices marked are usually good at negotiating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jtlee321, post: 3428274, member: 73983"]Very good topic! I have quite a few LCS around my parts and I am very fortunate to get a chance to visit them all as frequently as I can. My favorite, which is just 5 minutes from the house does pretty much everything positive. He actively engages with YN's and clearly prices his entire inventory. The one downside is that he does not always mark problem coins appropriately. I've have come across several coins that were cleaned, but not marked so. Most of the time they are easy to spot, others I have not noticed until I get home and view it under my desk lamp. He does make up for it in a way though. He allows me to return a coin that I find an issue with after I get home and never gives me any grief for it. Now thankfully it does not happen much, only 3 times in the last 5 years or so. The rest of the shops in the Portland area are typically friendly, some focus on bullion while a few others are more numismatically oriented. The bullion dealers don't usually have any prices marked and the numismatic shops do price their inventory. The dealers with prices marked are usually good at negotiating.[/QUOTE]
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