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Message:: [QUOTE="zaneman, post: 106725, member: 3970"]So Yesterday I was at a coin show, and I was looking at a dealer's inventory, and I noticed that he had a ms-67 graded morgan, by SGS. I asked him what he thought of SGS standards, and he said he thought they were good. Fair enough I suppose, maybe he had only one coin, and maybe it was the only coin that SGS had ever accurately graded. I asked to look at it, since it had nice toning, and he said the fields were flawless. Without a loupe, I could recognize tons of scratches. I said ehhhhh when he said the were flawless, and his response to that was saying "flawless" once again. How can anyone say that to your face, when you have the coin in hand. Then, a elderly woman walked up to a dealer and pulled out 4 peace dollars, including an uncirculated 1921, and he offered her 28 dollars for the 4 of them. I immediately offered her 250 dollars for the 4 of them, and after she walked off, had 2 different dealers tell me they wouldn't sell to me. So, I left the show, after voicing a complaint to the show promoter, who was quite friendly. I don't see how what I did was remotely wrong, seeing that she was clearly getting ripped off. I found out on my way out that she had sold her coins for 380 dollars to another dealer, and the woman thanked me. I think I did the right thing.[/QUOTE]