Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 25405794, member: 5372&quot;]The &quot;truth&quot; is couched and limited to the statement &quot;...most dealers that I know...&quot; and you then extrapolate and expand this &#039;truth&quot; to &quot;....seems to be the industry rate....&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>How may dealers is that? How many are &quot;most&quot; in that total?</p><p><br /></p><p>This kind of statement is Baloney by misdirection and the use of obfuscation, in order to present the appearance of &#039;fact&quot; and fait accompli. It isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it could be you are aware of a few dealers that charge the rate stated and it may be the &quot;most&quot; out of some unstated amount.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am certain we both have personal knowledge of quite a few dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never met a Dealer or group of Dealers that charges $250.00 for an &quot;appraisal&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know the majority of Dealers would however, offer to buy if the Dealer deemed doing so was monetarily advantageous to the Dealer. That is Capitalism. I know Dealers that will &quot;appraise&quot; and receive the pick of the litter for doing so. I&nbsp; know Dealers that will sell for 10-15% fee. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know of one Dealer that has a published rate, and it exceeds the amount stated and is the amount charged to the requested entity for an appraisal to be used in a legal evaluation of worth of an Estate, subject to fiduciary responsibility similar to a Real Estate Appraisal...which is also a published amount in the Good Faith estimate of the mortgage loan entity and that is usually $3-400.00, and requires the Appraiser to be vetted.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been a heck of a lot more than a few Dealers that have had legal action filed because of the &quot;subjective opinion&quot; that has caused serious monetary harm to the requesting Party.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sure you know all this, and I acknowledge that the choices of phrasing you shared was not intended to be finite in any manner and is simply conversational phrasing and not meant to imply more than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, you are not an unknown entity in the numismatic community, and your opinion is important to the community and is&nbsp; trusted and deservedly so. That is the basis of my reply.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many Dealers do you know that have been vetted by a Government process inclusive of fiduciary responsibility, to do so? That is quite a mountain of subjectivity to climb, when at the top there is a risk of litigation for doing so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, let the tomatoes and rotten cabbage fly. I can take it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Signed: </p><p>The Curmudgeonly Old Guy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in