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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bikergeek, post: 6684691, member: 112428&quot;]I know we&#039;re trying to focus on the good - but I&#039;ll share a bit of the bad first to establish contrast. I hope this thread is read by LCS folks too, and that they come away with a sense of our appreciation.</p><p>1. When I was 12 years old (in the 1970s) in Tulsa, OK, I rode my bicycle to LCS#1 to try to sell a Mercury dime. I got a lowball offer and rejected it. I got on my bike and rode straight to LCS#2. The guy there said, &quot;<b>So-and-so from LCS#1 called me and said you&#039;d be coming.</b>&quot; He offered me more and we closed the deal. Moral of the story: if you are colluding to price-fix against 12-year-old hobbyists on sub-ten-dollar coins, you should probably take a look in the mirror. (I quit collecting shortly thereafter and didn&#039;t resume until I was in my mid-30s).</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Now I&#039;m in my 50s. I went to a new LCS a few years ago and told the two guys what I liked and was interested in. One guy tried to sell me on a new US Mint product that was coming out - one of those things with &quot;low mintage&quot; that is sure to go up in value - but I told him I had no interest in that series, nor holding a coin that was exactly equal to all 50,000 others in the mintage. He got passive aggressive, saying things like, &quot;well, whatever you want... I&#039;m just the coin professional, what do I know?&quot; (I haven&#039;t been back).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I did find a shop in my town that is a big outfit (mainly jewelry, where the coins are in their own area). I got a young guy who deals with a lot of volume, tells me what he can and can&#039;t do (sometimes very concisely, since he&#039;s busy). There&#039;s no place to sit and look through junk bins for cherries, and that&#039;s a bummer. But he&#039;s honest, I understand the contours of the deals we make, and he doesn&#039;t give me the feeling that he&#039;s shaking me down.</p><p><br /></p><p>So - if I found a place that had integrity and respect (unlike the first two shops I mention above) and treat me like a friend, as some of you folks experience, especially if they let me sift through bags of &quot;junk&quot; sometimes - then I&#039;d be ALL IN. (After Covid, that is!) This isn&#039;t rocket science: a big part of it is just applying what we learned in kindergarten! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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