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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Travlntiques, post: 2362731, member: 39129&quot;]This is definitely one of the more friendly coin sites around and it still gathers its fair share of complaints with regards to rude/abrupt posts. Try NGC or PCGS and see how friendly they can be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why so abrupt? Well, I think most &quot;old hands&quot; have heard just about every question at some point in their chat board careers. Everyone starts out trying to give a massive in-depth response that chronicles every possible outcome for the person posing the question. It feels very rewarding when said person responds and appreciates the time spent on their problem especially if it gets resolved. Though quite often the OP never writes back and may not even read the reply.....that gets really disheartening. But then we are given a chance to answer the same question again next week and see how receptive the next person is to our answers on that one. Then said question will be posed again the next week, sometimes by a troll, and the responses get nasty fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone here, even after years and years of answering similar questions still tries to answer to the best of their abilities.......sometimes we&#039;re wrong......you get what you pay for ;-)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a hobby where soooo many people think that their Steel Penny from WWII must be worth a fortune, because somehow old coins have earned a reputation for being valuable. Most aren&#039;t.....and the ones that are, are valuable because you will NEVER find one in your pocket! Therefore it is easier for us to take a pessimistic approach to most new &quot;million dollar discovery&quot; threads.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s all these people who come here to take advantage of our time &amp; knowledge, only to disappear the next day, that leave a bad taste in our mouths.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure why sometimes we coin folks can be rude to someone that has done nothing wrong, maybe it is a bit of elitism, maybe we just do it to poke fun at a stupid question (despite the old saying, YES, there are such things as stupid questions), or maybe we just had a bad day......everyone has &#039;em. You might notice that most folks who have been at the same job for a long time have a similar attitude. By and large, we all try to be encouraging though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, I&#039;m 25, so it might not be the age of the poster that causes an attitude as much as how long they&#039;ve been in the coin world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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