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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 1778123, member: 19122&quot;]I heard a story of one local dealer who had a lady come in and offer a nice silver star certificate for sale, the dealer looked it up in his book, and offered the lady&nbsp; 75 dollars for it, the lady told the dealer that another local dealer had offered her 100 for it. He knew the other dealer was a cheap lowballer, but a cheap lowballer who knew paper money, so he offered her 150 which she took.</p><p>&nbsp;One of his customers came in who knew paper money and identified it as a mule star note, worth about a grand. Now in that case I percieved the dealer as a gambler, a risk taker, but not unethical, he truly did not know the true value of the note, but took a risk based on the ladys word. I see that guy not as unethical but missing the value of going above and beyond.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now one dealer that I know of, also local bought a bunch of proof sets from a collector, the collector was a regular, and he was busy so he bought the sets and looked at them when the business slowed down, he found two no s nickels, and gave the guy more money when he showed up the next time, that to me is going above and beyond.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I heard one collector tell me that one dealer threatened him if he would not sell him his Franklin collection for a certain price, what a shady place that was, he offered me a harshly cleaned 1832 bust half for 500, I looked him in the eye and laughed in his face,&nbsp; I would count threatening people in order to make a buy highly unethical.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think the very best dealers have the knowledge and the ethics which make them successful, who would you reccomend a friend to sell an inherited collection to, the dealer who lowballed you or sold you a damaged coin for problem free prices when you were starting out, or the dealer who always gave you a fair shake, even when you did not know beets from beans?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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