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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4343, member: 112"]National dealer - </p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with every single word you said. There are many good, honest dealers out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately - there are also those dealers who will take advantage of the inexperienced collector. Sad but true. </p><p><br /></p><p>You ever hear a comment like this - a man do nothing but good his entire life - but then one day he does something bad. And when the man is dead and gone - the only thing people remember about him was the one bad incident - all the good is forgotten.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well it's like that with coin dealers too - as I'm sure you know. The bad ones ruin the reputations of the good ones. And the good ones must struggle to overcome that on a constant basis. They must rely on their customers for repeat business and to bring in new customers by word of mouth. Word of mouth is the best advertising in the world. </p><p><br /></p><p>But let a customer get burned one time by a coin dealer - and from then on in that person's mind coin dealers - all coin dealers are low lifes. It doesn't matter that it's not true - what matters is the word of mouth. A collector tells a story of a bad experience and all the good that a coin dealer has done is gone out the window. Again - sad but true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4343, member: 112"]National dealer - I agree with every single word you said. There are many good, honest dealers out there. Unfortunately - there are also those dealers who will take advantage of the inexperienced collector. Sad but true. You ever hear a comment like this - a man do nothing but good his entire life - but then one day he does something bad. And when the man is dead and gone - the only thing people remember about him was the one bad incident - all the good is forgotten. Well it's like that with coin dealers too - as I'm sure you know. The bad ones ruin the reputations of the good ones. And the good ones must struggle to overcome that on a constant basis. They must rely on their customers for repeat business and to bring in new customers by word of mouth. Word of mouth is the best advertising in the world. But let a customer get burned one time by a coin dealer - and from then on in that person's mind coin dealers - all coin dealers are low lifes. It doesn't matter that it's not true - what matters is the word of mouth. A collector tells a story of a bad experience and all the good that a coin dealer has done is gone out the window. Again - sad but true.[/QUOTE]
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