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It's more than just being in the right place at the right time. The manager was under no obligation to let you buy them or if let you know they existed as they were in his safe. He did you a favor, a $200 favor, and you act like a spoiled child about it. I am at a loss why you can't show any gratitude to him.
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Pillar of the Community
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This is Part 3, I believe the OP posted that for part 1 and 2 he got some peace and morgans as well. So this is more than a one time thing.
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I think everyone posting items on getting the 7-11 manager a gift should settle down.
Smoker has gotten lucky, because the manager knows him as a regular customer and the manager works to keep him as a regular customer. Just because WE know they are silver and worth more then face, most people don't. And to the manager, smoker is doing HIM a favor by taking the halves and dollar coins of his hands.
I have a similar relationship with a liquor store near where I work. And it has paid off in other ways, discounts on fruit drinks and tea when I stop over. I am doing the guy a favor by taking the coins so he doesn't have to roll them. I have gotten only one silver in a couple of months, not nearly as lucky as smoker.
anyway, my point is this, don't criticize the guy for his hobby. Remember to most people half dollar and dollar coins are a pain to deal with.
Today at my Sam's club, I partially paid my grocery bill with 30.00 in Kennedy's. The clerk hadn't ever seen one before.
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dizzy, you act like a high handed moralist. I never said he was under any obligation to do anything. Never even insinuated it. As stamp points out, and as I said as well, the manager considers my taking the coins off of his hands to be doing him a favor. He does not want to deal with them and I save him the trouble. The attitude that I must show him some overwhelming sign of gratitude is ridiculous. You say he did me a 200.00 favor. You say that as if he handed me 200.00 dollars for no apparent reason. Not the case at all. He simply sold me the coins that he did not want to deal with that were taking up space in his safe. I did him a service and I profited from that. that is simple business. Both parties got a benefit from the relationship. Simple.
And it is not a matter of me acting like a spoiled child. It is me telling you to back off of telling me how I should conduct myself and preaching to me. I did not post this to get a flipping moral lecture from you or anyone else. Clear?
mkman, read the other posts again. The other two times were simply me getting lucky in seeing the coins in the register. Again, no one doing anything out of the ordinary. Just me keeping my eye out as I do EVERYWHERE I go. Just so happens this one 7-11 has been a three time winner for me. There are several 7-11s around here and I have pulled silver in one form or another from all of them. Just not as much as this one. I have also scored from a couple of banks. My wife, VACookey hit a major score at a bank here about a year ago. I will have her post a link to the thread about that one.
So dizzy, does this mean I have to go get a dozen gift cards and go hand them out to every clerk that has handed me coins out of their register?
Edited by smokeriderdon 12/07/2013 9:34 pm
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Spoiled child? Really? Is that necessary?
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I truly don't want to offend, but the position that you did him a favor is odd to me.
If you think you did him a favor, next time you see him, would you be willing to let him know that you paid him $13 for something you knew was worth $160-$180 at the time?
Doing him a favor would have been letting him know what they were worth, no?
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I just can't get past how you think your doing him a favor by making a $200 profit off him because he's not aware of what he has. You keep acting like man your so lucky I came along and you don't have to deal with all that silver at face value the horror. I agree next time you see him let him know what there worth and see if he thinks you did him a favor and if he continues a to hook you up.
I'm not against you taking advantage of a good situation I would do the same thing given the chance it's your attitude that bothers me. I am doing him a favor by taking advantage of his ignorance ain't I such a nice guy he should be so grateful I am willing to make such a profit off him.
Edited by sirdizzy 12/08/2013 01:04 am
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Pillar of the Community
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The guy would have been a lot better off selling the halves to a coin shop. He lost like all his Walking Liberty half dollars. Maybe he'll use it as a lesson learned? If the manager doesn't know that the coins were worth money, then who cares. People today should understand what years of coins are silver and not. Like everyone in my family knows. Even though they don't collect coins.
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It is truly amazing what someone will do for there addictions. I worked graveyards at a grocery store in college and had one guy come in and spend a couple dollars in silver proof Kennedy halves for diapers at 4am. Silver was only $5 an ounce at the time and I scooped them up that one I can understand. You need diapers at 4am and no pawn shops are open you do what you gotta do. I think I could wait several hours for cigs and a pawn shop to open. I saw the occasional silver never much normally just a random silver Washington or Roosevelt.
Edited by sirdizzy 12/08/2013 02:28 am
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You guys do realize that the manager does not own those half dollars right? They belong to 7-11 and they are no different than any other half dollar, or quarter or penny in the drawer. The manager didn't know what he "had" because he didn't "have" anything. If I routinely walk in and ask for change for a dollar am I supposed to buy him a gift card because he gave me 4 quarters?
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Moral debate aside. AWESOME finds guys! That is seriously the best collection of finds I've ever seen from a convenience store. Hope you guys find some more sweet stuff! I don't suppose there were any rarer dates? I guess ya'll would have mentioned them if there was. IMHO you have no obligation to do anything for that manager. You got lucky. Wish I could too 
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Pillar of the Community
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I am done arguing with you. You can believe what you will. Your business. Just keep it to yourself and preach to someone else
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Pillar of the Community
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That date range suggests these coins came out of circulation in one group in 1946, and stayed in one hoard until they went to the 7-11. If they were assembled any time after 1946, I would expect some 1947's in the group, by chance alone.
Edited by philadelphian 12/08/2013 1:51 pm
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I think this thread has run it's course.
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