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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 767873, member: 8033&quot;]Every dealer is different and unfortunately Cloudsweeper99 is correct in many cases. If my boss is working on a 10K deal on the phone and you walk in with 20 ounces of silver guess where his mind is? He can be very rude and I&#039;m not sticking up for him.</p><p>This is where I run a lot of interference. Just call me the &quot;good cop&quot;. I&#039;m the polite one that still wants to see the small deal through because it all DOES matter in the long run.</p><p>I&#039;ll interrupt him just enough to get a price and we usually end up buying it. If he gets his other deal done while you&#039;re there he&#039;ll often apologize to you. Gets interesting to say the least.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for calling shops. Yes, they are known to &quot;shop&quot; one another. We generally don&#039;t play that game.</p><p>IF you call a dealer do not start with the line &quot;What&#039;s gold/silver going for?&quot;, &quot;What are you paying for gold/silver?&quot;</p><p>The first question tells us nothing. Are you wanting to buy or sell? What is it - coins, jewelry? Do you even know (we get a lot of this).</p><p>Same applies to what are you paying. What do you have. If you are somewhat organized and know what it is we can give you a better idea.</p><p>Junk silver is easy. Right now we&#039;re paying 10x face and we&#039;re more than happy to tell you that. If you have a few hundred bucks in face we may even raise it.</p><p><br /></p><p>For bullion we&#039;ll give you an &quot;if you were here right now we&#039;d pay x amount of dollars&quot;. Why because it changes very often. Gold recently dropped about $80 in one day. A price at 9am was no longer good at 3pm.</p><p><br /></p><p>With jewelry it is much more secretive because so many people are buying it. We&#039;ll suggest you shop it around if you want then come to us last. If someone made you an offer higher than we&#039;re willing to pay we&#039;ll suggest you take it back to that buyer. You&#039;d be surprised how many just sell it to us. Why? - because they&#039;re bluffing and it&#039;s hard to slide one over on my boss. He&#039;s been at it for 42 years now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if it&#039;s a big coin collection with a large mix we need to see it. Period. How do we buy? We start quickly and make offers on pieces. If you accept we keep going. If not we give it a few minutes and ask what you expect. If we can&#039;t agree we&#039;re done basically.</p><p>Why is this? - because we are not in business to do free appraisals basically.</p><p><br /></p><p>To sum it up dealers can be very rude at times. My boss excels at it on occasion.</p><p>On the other hand he can be a really great guy and he DOES want your stuff. </p><p>The more organized you are and the more concise your questions the easier it is for both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>With what I&#039;ve just shared I would suggest any potential seller to imagine life on the &quot;other&quot; side of the counter. We get a lot of &quot;silly&quot; calls and walk ins on any given day. For those that call or walk in and are organized and knowledgable it&#039;s a bonus for sure.</p><p>Don&#039;t toss a 32-D Washington in with a 100 other junk silver quarters as a &quot;test&quot;. You&#039;ll get an offer for junk silver. We just count it and pay. Put it to the side and you&#039;ll get more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers look for smooth transactions just as a seller wants a smooth transaction. Knowing how to go about it as a seller accomplishes this.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m rambling but hopefully a few people will learn something from my ramble.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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