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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7405921, member: 105571&quot;]Well, I haven&#039;t bought anything in a LCS in a couple of years but when I buy off the bourse at coin shows, anything that is over $50, I request a receipt with the dealers name, phone number, and address plus the date, the price and what the coin is.&nbsp; This is primarily for the purpose of establishing the tax basis value of the coin and insurance coverage.&nbsp; The data goes into my spreadsheet and the receipt goes into my safe.&nbsp; Coin is also photographed and cross-referenced to the spreadsheet and the receipt data.&nbsp; I don&#039;t buy many raw coins but when I do it&#039;s photographed before it is removed from the dealer&#039;s 2x2 or flip.&nbsp; If I was even more anal-retentive, I&#039;d save the old 2x2 or flip but I&#039;m not.&nbsp; For slabs with dealers stickers and decals on them (yes, including Heritage and others) I photograph the slab &quot;as received&quot; before removing the stickers.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s amazing how many dealers do not have a receipt pad with their business data on it.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t, I ask them to write it down on the back of their business card.&nbsp; Some also don&#039;t have business cards, so I ask them to write it down on the blank pad I carry in my bag.&nbsp; Many are happy to accomodate but some are just grumble, grumble, grumble - you&#039;d think I asked for their passport.&nbsp; Some are extremely reluctant to give out any identifying information at all like business name, address, phone number, etc.&nbsp; I&#039;m all for security but that is ridiculous.&nbsp; You just sold me a coin for $800 cash and you won&#039;t tell me your name?!?!?</p><p><br /></p><p>If the coin is under about $50, I just write it down myself but I don&#039;t buy much of anything collectible for less than $50 so it&#039;s not a problem for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Never bought a fake to my knowledge so I don&#039;t have any experience in trying to return a coin.&nbsp; But, I imagine my documentation would probably work OK except in the face of a particularly unscrupulous person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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