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<p>[QUOTE="rosethe, post: 4706950, member: 21556"]Well, I think I did pretty good. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I paid $260. I was not expecting to see an Indian and I had no price guide with me. I was thinking it weighs a bit more than the 1/10 bullion I bought last week for $220. I was already assuming this coin was cleaned or something. Dealer left the Graysheet out and when he went in the back to check on another coin for me, I saw the sheet said $260. That surprised me. As for haggling, [USER=19765]@fretboard[/USER], no I didn't haggle. I love to haggle and I've haggled with the best Turkish, Egyptian and Morrocan rug salesmen in the world-where if you don't leave their upper chambers full of their apple tea and a carrying a rug purchase you are some kind of superhuman. </p><p>But in this case, the dealer already had 'put me off' and I probably won't ever go back. Here's what happened. I entered the store with a container of random coins and photos (of the ones that are too valuable to carry) and two plexiglass cent sets. Although their website says: We will give you a free verbal appraisal of your collection, the dealer told me he wasn't going to appraise anything for me. I then asked him what he was paying for wheat cents, and silver. Then I showed him the cent set that has everything except the 4-5 key dates. It did have all the low S mints and a 1931-S in there. And he says to me: How much do you want for it? And I responded: Well, you tell me how much you will give me for it. To which he told me: I am not going to tell you a price on anything, if you intend to 'shop it around.'</p><p>That was the end for me. I did buy the $2.5 Indian because I thought I remembered it at about $300+ on JM Bullion. Was I treated nicely by this dealer? Or was I just a 'mark' for him?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rosethe, post: 4706950, member: 21556"]Well, I think I did pretty good. :p I paid $260. I was not expecting to see an Indian and I had no price guide with me. I was thinking it weighs a bit more than the 1/10 bullion I bought last week for $220. I was already assuming this coin was cleaned or something. Dealer left the Graysheet out and when he went in the back to check on another coin for me, I saw the sheet said $260. That surprised me. As for haggling, [USER=19765]@fretboard[/USER], no I didn't haggle. I love to haggle and I've haggled with the best Turkish, Egyptian and Morrocan rug salesmen in the world-where if you don't leave their upper chambers full of their apple tea and a carrying a rug purchase you are some kind of superhuman. But in this case, the dealer already had 'put me off' and I probably won't ever go back. Here's what happened. I entered the store with a container of random coins and photos (of the ones that are too valuable to carry) and two plexiglass cent sets. Although their website says: We will give you a free verbal appraisal of your collection, the dealer told me he wasn't going to appraise anything for me. I then asked him what he was paying for wheat cents, and silver. Then I showed him the cent set that has everything except the 4-5 key dates. It did have all the low S mints and a 1931-S in there. And he says to me: How much do you want for it? And I responded: Well, you tell me how much you will give me for it. To which he told me: I am not going to tell you a price on anything, if you intend to 'shop it around.' That was the end for me. I did buy the $2.5 Indian because I thought I remembered it at about $300+ on JM Bullion. Was I treated nicely by this dealer? Or was I just a 'mark' for him?[/QUOTE]
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