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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 341750, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;ve worked retail for many years and have always treated children just like any other customer or potential customer... partly because of a sense of basic fairness and because to do otherwise would reflect badly on the business I work for.&nbsp; Losing children as customers can also cost you their parents as customers, and also cause damage to your reputation if you&#039;re perceived as unfriendly.&nbsp; I always ploiltely answer any children&#039;s questions, even seemingly silly ones like &quot;can you eat thse shoes?&quot;&nbsp; (Yes I&#039;ve been asked that lol... even by adults... I just calmly explain that while they&#039;re non-toxic I wouldn&#039;t exaclty call them edible.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Another factor is that children will one day become adults, and may have children of their own... your long term business prospects won&#039;t be very good if you cut off your future customer base.&nbsp; Children who are turned off from coin collecting (or just from buying from you) is a customer you lose for life... that customer&#039;s potential future children too... and that&#039;s more than just rude, that&#039;s bad business.&nbsp; I can tell you from personal experience if it were not for a certain coin dealer having the patience to politely deal with a 10 year old coin collector no coin store would have my business about 20 years later... and I have much more disposable income now than I did then lol... if for no other reason treating young customers well is a good investment![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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