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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;C-B-D, post: 3824480, member: 43130&quot;]That&#039;s a two way street. Can you imagine the number of folks that come in with Sacagawea Dollars thinking they&#039;re real gold? Or the innumerable customers that come in with 1969-S Proof sets thinking they&#039;re worth hundreds? Or the sheer number of clueless folks that think their corroded 1943 steel cents are copper?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a friend who owns a shop. Almost everytime I&#039;m in there, someone comes in trying to sell him a &quot;gold&quot; watch that they got from their grandfather, that isn&#039;t gold. The other day a guy came in&nbsp; yelling about how he found a 1916-D Mercury in pocket change. It was counterfeit. And the dealer handed it back to him and didn&#039;t even get mad! And he <b><u>knew</u></b> this guy. Regular customer who came in trying to basically <u><b>steal</b></u> from the dealer by tricking him! You could tell his story was bull, and when he got the news it was fake, you could tell he was pretending to be surprised. I bet it&#039;s overwhelmingly frustrating and depressing being a coin shop owner, dealing with a revolving door of crooks, rip-off artists, and clueless customers that get angry at you when you tell them the truth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a shop, but I&#039;m a coin dealer. Last year I had a little lady come to me with a box of coins. Her husband had died and she found the coins he used to buy occasionally.&nbsp; She was very excited. I added it all up for her and called her back. I told her she had about $450 worth of coins and I could pay her $375 if she wanted to sell them to me. She was devastated and angry. These actual words came whimpering out of her mouth: &quot; I thought he had a million dollar collection.&quot; She decided to keep the coins. I didn&#039;t charge for the hour and a half I looked through everything. I apologized to her for being the bearer of bad news. Later, I was told she was very upset with me because she felt I lowballed her. I was speechless and hurt. I tried to be kind and pay a fair price. I didn&#039;t charge her a dime and truly felt for her. <span style="color: #0059b3"><i>But I suppose she took the frustrations with her deceased husbands poor buying habits <b>and</b> her own unrealistic expectations, and decided to make <b>me</b> the bad guy. Now picture having to deal with that on a daily basis.</i> </span>That&#039;s what coin shop dealers have to deal with. If you have a picture in your head of all coin dealers ripping people off and laughing maniacally all the way to the bank, you&#039;re telling yourself a lie... just like that poor widow and her husband&#039;s &quot;million dollar&quot; collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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