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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 24652337, member: 27832&quot;]No crazy LCS stories here, just depressing ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ve got one local shop, but it seems like the owner has a bad reputation <i>among other local dealers</i>. I went in once with my young son; we weren&#039;t made to feel welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple of shops in Dad&#039;s city. I went into one to look around, and the smell of cigarette smoke nearly knocked me flat -- and this was within the last ten years or so. The owners/employees were chortling through a collection they&#039;d just bought (I believe from someone who inherited it), talking about which coins they&#039;d send in to be graded. I don&#039;t <i>know</i> that they lowballed the seller, but I wasn&#039;t feeling charitable at the time, and I assumed the worst.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I shop for coins in brick-and-mortar places any more, it&#039;s usually pawn shops. I could tell some stories, but I don&#039;t know that they&#039;d count for this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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