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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdcda, post: 53554, member: 941&quot;]Folks, lets be careful with posts and responses like these...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. First, anyone asking an opinion about a particular dealer must recognize the fact that those that are displeased with the dealer, have had a bad personal experience in the past, or have heard second-hand from others about bad experiences, are substantially most likely to respond than those that may have been pleased with their business dealings.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If a reader unfamiliar with Littleton or any other dealer for that matter, were to read this post they would walk away assuming Littleton charges too much for their coins. Is this true? While it may be, but they would not have personal knowledge of this fact but instead only comments from a forum to back up their opinion. When they visited another coin forum and someone asked the same question, they might be inclined to respond that Littleton charges too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. When recommending another dealer such as Coast to Coast, recognize that if a poster were to ask the same question about them, there would be a reasonable likelihood that a number of people might respond with comments similar to those posted here about Littleton.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Statements along the lines of &quot;Littleton does not sell problem coins,&quot; &quot;Littleton is terribly high priced,&quot; and &quot;XF is XF, not an AU slider with problems at the XF price&quot; are dangerous. They imply that Littleton&#039;s grading is always accurate and that you are never going to receive a problem coin from them.If your going to make statements along these lines they should be made from personal experience only and not be presented in such a broad fashion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I am not sure that posts such as this are the most appropriate use of this forum (if they are possibly they deserve a separate section) I would suggest that in the future they be handled somewhat differently...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. If you want to solicit opinions about a particular dealer you might want to consider doing so in the following fashion... &quot;Has anyone purchased coins in the past from X dealer? If so, were you satisfied with the the coin, customer service, etc? Based on your experience, would you buy from them again?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If you are going to respond to posts such as this I would encourage you to limit your responses to first-hand knowledge. If you purchased a dipped coin from the dealer than say so. If all of your coins were graded properly and priced right, then state the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. If you are going to respond&nbsp; with negative information about the dealer that is not based on first-hand knowledge than please make it very clear that you have no personal knowledge or dealings with the dealer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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