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<p>[QUOTE="LuxUnit, post: 3429502, member: 90324"]I have 2 shops I go to. In the KC area I'd say I have 10 or so options but I refuse to go to the other 8 for several reasons. </p><p><br /></p><p>1. They over price every single coin (by 25% or more) hoping to make money on people who don't know the worth, and they expect to haggle on every single coin purchase. I hate this because I don't want to have to haggle or figure out prices on so many different combinations so I don't even think about purchasing them in the first place. </p><p>2. Trying to sell problem coins as straight grades. I always think back to this $0.02 piece but had to be XF for near AU but it had a huge gouge and they were asking $125 as if it was flawless. I very commonly will buy a problem coins around the 5 to 20 range if you label them as problems I will never look at your "straight grade" garbage.</p><p>3. Stock and availability. There's a store I won't go to specifically because only about 5% of their stock cycles out. The other 300 coins have been the same for the last two years. If they can't sell it they need to get rid of it or lower the prices but I hate walking in and having to look through hundreds of the same coins just to find the 15 to 30 new ones.</p><p>4. Communication. if I can't go in there and talk to you about what I'm doing and you just want to sit behind your counter and watch me look at coins I don't want to come back. I want the store owner to tell me about getting a new coins about things they're excited about, and it want them to know what my interests are so they can show stuff me if I'm not finding what I'm looking for.</p><p>5. Lack of variety. Another store I know of is very reasonable in all the things listed above but they only carry about five of every coin at any one time. Then the rest of their inventory is silver and gold or just boxes of culls. It's good for people that don't want nice examples but bad for anything besides cull. </p><p>6. If I constantly come back to your store work with me. I stopped going to one store because I felt I constantly with things slightly above price guide values and the one time I asked to lower a price I was treated like a criminal for a $10 discount, never went back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LuxUnit, post: 3429502, member: 90324"]I have 2 shops I go to. In the KC area I'd say I have 10 or so options but I refuse to go to the other 8 for several reasons. 1. They over price every single coin (by 25% or more) hoping to make money on people who don't know the worth, and they expect to haggle on every single coin purchase. I hate this because I don't want to have to haggle or figure out prices on so many different combinations so I don't even think about purchasing them in the first place. 2. Trying to sell problem coins as straight grades. I always think back to this $0.02 piece but had to be XF for near AU but it had a huge gouge and they were asking $125 as if it was flawless. I very commonly will buy a problem coins around the 5 to 20 range if you label them as problems I will never look at your "straight grade" garbage. 3. Stock and availability. There's a store I won't go to specifically because only about 5% of their stock cycles out. The other 300 coins have been the same for the last two years. If they can't sell it they need to get rid of it or lower the prices but I hate walking in and having to look through hundreds of the same coins just to find the 15 to 30 new ones. 4. Communication. if I can't go in there and talk to you about what I'm doing and you just want to sit behind your counter and watch me look at coins I don't want to come back. I want the store owner to tell me about getting a new coins about things they're excited about, and it want them to know what my interests are so they can show stuff me if I'm not finding what I'm looking for. 5. Lack of variety. Another store I know of is very reasonable in all the things listed above but they only carry about five of every coin at any one time. Then the rest of their inventory is silver and gold or just boxes of culls. It's good for people that don't want nice examples but bad for anything besides cull. 6. If I constantly come back to your store work with me. I stopped going to one store because I felt I constantly with things slightly above price guide values and the one time I asked to lower a price I was treated like a criminal for a $10 discount, never went back.[/QUOTE]
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