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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1097428, member: 16948&quot;]I try to be sensitive to newer collectors if I can tell, but it will&nbsp; also depend on how busy I am at the time.&nbsp; If I have time, I will gladly help&nbsp; educate my customers, especially if they ask.&nbsp; As a collector, you&nbsp; should not be afraid to ask, just be polite and sensitive to my time&nbsp; with other customers.&nbsp; And it doesn&#039;t hurt to ask if I can do any better&nbsp; on the price.&nbsp; I prefer that you don&#039;t tell me what price you&#039;ll pay,&nbsp; but just ask if there is room, and don&#039;t expect that a dealer can always reduce&nbsp; a coin and then get cranky when they can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have to say, however, that sometimes it is very frustrating when&nbsp; the collector doesn&#039;t know what they want.&nbsp; I can help collectors and&nbsp; educate them, but they have to have some idea of what they are looking&nbsp; for, and have a realistic idea of the value of the coin they are&nbsp; wanting.&nbsp; Too many collectors have MS65 taste and an XF budget, and&nbsp; you&#039;re wasting both of our time if that is your true expectation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, I often have collectors tell me they are looking for a particular coin&nbsp; in MS60.&nbsp; That tells me they want an uncirculated coin but don&#039;t have a&nbsp; high budget, and that they aren&#039;t necessarily looking for quality.&nbsp; Even&nbsp; though they didn&#039;t ask, I will explain to them that in my opinion MS60&nbsp; is not necessarily a good grade to collect, that they should either look&nbsp; for coins in AU58 (less pricey) or MS62/63 (if they really want uncirculated) because a coin that is graded MS60 means that it is usually&nbsp; damaged, hairlined, spotted, scratched, cleaned, blotchy, dinged,&nbsp; artificially toned, etc.&nbsp; In other words, it&#039;s simply an unc coin with&nbsp; lots of &quot;issues.&quot;&nbsp; Whereas an&nbsp; AU58 coin is the highest quality circulated coin with just the slightest&nbsp; of rub, and MS62/63 coins usually have only minor issues and can still be quite&nbsp; attractive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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