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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrekowjr, post: 1009920, member: 27204&quot;]So, I have been here for a little while now and spend most of my time here reading, occasionally posting and really just soaking in as much as I can.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the moment of truth has arrived to see how much I have learned, test my negotiating skills and to make this experiment into a fun contest that everyone can participate in.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here is the plan:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Testing what I have learned....</b></i></p><p>1. Attend the Contra Costa Coin Show this Saturday 10/9 held annually in Concord California, which is adjacent to my home city of Martinez.</p><p>2. Let all of you nominate a coin for me purchase at the coin show with an agreed upon value of approximately $10, in what would be a fairly recognizable grade that I could use my newly honed skills to pick out.</p><p>3. By Friday 10/8, I would like for you all to vote on which of the nominated coins you like best.</p><p>4. I will put the Top 3 voted coins on my current list of coins to purchase this Saturday.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Testing my negotiating skills....</b></i></p><p>1. Search the different tables to find where I can purchase these coins.</p><p>2. Negotiate with the dealers until I can find one that will sell me one of these 3 coins for $7 or less in the grade agreed upon.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Making this test into a fun contest....</b></i></p><p>1. I will take the names of all the people that participated in either nominating or voting for the coins for me to purchase and put them into a hat.</p><p>2. I will choose one name from the hat.</p><p>3. The name chosen will win that coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this experiment will help me determine how much I heave learned in the last year including what I have learned here recently, how well my sales background will translate into negotiating skills as a buyer in coins and how I can show my appreciation to all of you by letting you help choose what coin will be the prize.</p><p><br /></p><p>By no means, am I a coin expert and in fact the coins you all choose may not be a coin I am even very familiar with. However, the more knowledge about the coin you can give me before Saturday about the grade are obviously a bonus for me and to the winner of the contest. Please do not choose a coin with a melt value exceeding $7 therefore requiring me to negotiate a dealer to sell me the coin below the spot price of the metal (like silver dollars or halves). All I ask is that the winner and people involved not be offended if I do not get it in the exact grade chosen and instead help to determine how I performed by grading me based on the pictures I will post of the coin and by seeing the coin in person once they receive it.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>I hope you all see this as I do and that is as good old fashion fun! Thanks!</b> :thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p>-Raul</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. If this thread is in the wrong spot I apologize but I had trouble determining exactly where to put it as sort of crosses the boundaries between a few forum areas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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