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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 2251733, member: 13307&quot;]I guess my worst coin shop experience (and I&#039;ll generalize here, because I had similar experiences at more than a few coin shops in the Chicago area) was this:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Walk into coin shop.</p><p>2) See lots of proof and mint sets everywhere...on shelves, in safes, in the DISPLAY CASES.</p><p>3) Ask to look at proof and mint sets.</p><p>4) Be told &quot;We don&#039;t have any for sale.&quot;</p><p>5) Say, &quot;What about these right here, or those over there?&quot;</p><p>6) We don&#039;t let people look at them.</p><p><br /></p><p>WHO DOES BUSINESS LIKE THAT?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s sad to say that&#039;s not the worst Chicago area coin shop experience.&nbsp; By far it was this:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Walk into coin shop with my ex-girlfriend, who was really hot (but a jerk, using a polite word to adhere to forum rules.)</p><p>2) Coin shop owner is super cool, shows me some coins, I buy a few, we talk coins, I say I&#039;ll come back on Monday with more money to buy some more coins.</p><p>3) I go back on Monday without my ex.&nbsp; Coin shop owner <i>from the start</i> treats me like I just shot his favorite pet and then pooped in his bowl of Wheaties.&nbsp; Shows me one tray filled with those &quot;Coins of the wild west&quot; sets - you know the ones with the ugliest possible coins in them.</p><p>4) Owner tells me I am going to buy them for about three times over what they&#039;d bring even at an auction with two idiot buyers in a bidding war against each other over it.</p><p>5) I am perfectly honest with him that I am very interested in the coins I was looking at during the previous visit, that I have brought money with me to spend, and that the coins he wants me to buy have a realistic value of around 20 cents each.&nbsp; On a good day.&nbsp; But I say it politely.</p><p>6) Owner again states that I am going to buy those coins or nothing at all.</p><p>7) Before I even answer, owner states that he is a multi-millionaire and doesn&#039;t have time to sell one coin at a time to someone who won&#039;t buy the coins he wants to sell (keep in mind I brought about $3k with me, since he&#039;d showed me the bags and bags of coins he had in the safe.&nbsp; He&#039;d also said he&#039;d let me look at them (when my ex was there.)</p><p>8) I politely decline to buy the set he had in hand.</p><p>9) Owner begins cursing me out (screaming every curse word in the book) and tells me to get out of his store.&nbsp; Keep in mind I have been perfectly polite to him, and all I did was say I wouldn&#039;t pay $50 for a set with two cleaned/damaged dateless Buffalo nickels in it.</p><p>10) I leave, never to return.</p><p>11) Chicago is a pit of despair wrapped in a gas station burrito.</p><p>12) Still, I would be okay with the Cubs winning the World Series if only for the cool factor that Back To The Future said they would do it this year.</p><p>13) Chicago coin dealers can go (WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PLEASE STAND BY.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to state that there was ONE dealer in the Chicago area I visited that was perfectly polite, professional, and I&#039;m sad I can&#039;t remember their name, because they specialized in world coins.&nbsp; ONE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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