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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tradernick, post: 52529, member: 648&quot;]I&#039;ve had so many great experiences running a coin shop that I had to think about this for awhile.&nbsp; One customer I won&#039;t ever forget was on vacation from Italy...he spoke no english and I don&#039;t speak Italian.&nbsp; We got along just fine using hand gestures and a Krause book.&nbsp; He was one of the nicest people I&#039;ve ever met, period.&nbsp; Before he left he &quot;said&quot; that even though we didn&#039;t speak the same language, we both understood the language of money and both loved coins.&nbsp; I hope I never forget that gentleman.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the wild side, once there was a large family of middle easterners (India or Pakistan, I think...but I&#039;m not sure.) that came in wanting silver coins.&nbsp; Lots of them.&nbsp; I had just purchased two bags of 90% silver and once they saw that they became very excited and began to barter with me (all at once) about the price.&nbsp; I think at the time it was about 3.5 times face value.&nbsp; Once we had established the price they began a yelling contest, thinking I&#039;d sell to the loudest one first.&nbsp; They all were a family and had come in together, remember.&nbsp; After I sold a few hundred dollars worth to one of them some of the others would shout ME NEXT or something like that.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen anything like it...an entire family competing against one another to buy coins.&nbsp; There must have been 10 of them, all yelling for me to sell to them next.&nbsp; What fun...zany, but fun.&nbsp; Between them all I think they bought both full bags of silver ($1k face value per bag) and I never saw them again lol.&nbsp; What a day that was!</p><p><br /></p><p>Nick</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoops gotta add one more.&nbsp; A fellow walked in once and came straight up to me and stuck his hand out.&nbsp; Shaking my hand, he said that I probably wouldn&#039;t remember him but that several years before I had loaned him $10 when he was down on his luck and that $10 had really helped him out and he wanted me to know how much he appreciated that.&nbsp; He handed me $10, said &quot;God bless you&quot; a few times, and left....all this despite my protests that he had me confused with someone else.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t remember him at all and I usually don&#039;t do handouts.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t remember giving him any money but he swore it was me...said he remembered it clearly.&nbsp; </p><p>Some encounters in life are just meant to bring tears to your eyes, you know?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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