Can You Report PCGS Authorized Coin Dealers? And How?

Although you've already done this, for anyone else who is contemplating it, I wouldn't recommend picking a random dealer from a list to visit your house and evaluate what you believe to be a valuable coin collection. IMHO you're much better off to take part of your collection to them for evaluation. Take a mix of no more than a couple of dozen coins with you (different dates, series, value, etc.). It lets you evaluate the dealer while they evaluate your coins, all without exposing the location of your collection.

As far as wasting the dealers time goes, it seems to me the dealer didn't do his due dilligence either. Shouldn't he have asked a few questions to see what kind of collection he was being asked to evaluate and for what purpose before he made the trip? If he thought his time was wasted, then it sounds like there was not a mutual understanding of what he was being asked to do before he made the trip.

I understand where you are coming from. I learned this early on in my collecting. I am more of a collector than an investor. As collectors we all have a personal attachment to our collections. I remember bring my coins to flea market, brick and mortar coin shops, coin shows thinking I had something really interesting and invested a lot of time in looking things up, checking on an error or variety etc, and quite frankly it was really nothing special to the potential buyer. We as collectors may have a few hundred coins, but these dealers see tens of thousands and more and rightly so, it is there business. They were not bad mouthing you or the collection they are putting in into perspective from their experience and knowledge. Now at the tender age of 55, I am still learning but a bit wiser. Education is the key. The more that see, read and study, the more it makes sense. I have learned a tremendous amount from going to coin shows especially the FUN show in Florida. I am Tampa based, where ICG is located. The ICG guys, Randy Campbell and Skip Fazzari are always there and at local coin shows. They will answer any question and quite approachable and tell you if you have nothing or if you have something. Getting yourself more educatd id the key

Don't give that dealer any business in the future. That is bad whether the coin is valuable or not.

and it has nothing to do with value. He should have just shown some respect for another person's property.

I remember years ago there was articles regarding precious metal dealers buying people collections in a hotel area, which they offer very low percentage to what actually its worth, perhaps they have changed their tunes and decide to pay people visit in their own property.

But I don't know what is the requirement to become a PCGS dealer?
Anything can and do happens these days, or am I thinking way off?

I think Aabloto started this trend because he thought, when he contact a authorized PCGS dealer from the PCGS website, he was getting a PCGS rep. I believe the companies listed are just LCD (Local coin Dealer) in the area that you can go to a drop off you coins for submission and benefit from a mass submission discount, instead of doing it yourself and pay regular price. I feel this guy was unprofessional and only wanted to do his own business and not represent PCGS. I would contact PCGS and report the LCD and the experience that you had a bad experience with one of there registered LCD's. The LCD is feeding of there referrals and not focusing on the clients wants.

Best thing to do is go to a coin show where PCGS is present, this can be found on there website as well.

Good Luck

Unfortunate story. If I decide to sell a significant amount of my collection, I'll do the research myself beforehand. I wonder how this is going to change in the future with the advent of the internet, the younger collectors now will know where to go to search for coin values.

Threads like this make me embarrassed to be in the hobby.