Breaking News To Someone About A Coin They Own

Or get you in trouble for trespassing. Just saying.

I doubt you would be sent up the river for picketing. Maybe asked to leave the premises.

I can concur on the part that a lot of these "We Buy Gold & Silver" dealers generally know little about numismatics in general.

Just last week I went to such a place to get an opinion on my supposed 1911 MPL.

The guy said outright that it wasn't a matte proof because it didn't have a reflective mirror-like surface.

O.k read some more responses.

Im gonna tell the hubby if he does try and return it .Do it at the busy time of the day on saturday .
This way the store might have customers,maybe he will just do the refund, Instead of arguing with the hubby.
If a arguments erupts the owner might loose the customers in the store.My thought is if the salesman gets nasty and rude it might chase off a potential buyer.So he might want to keep the vibe in the store pleasant.


I would post his shop name and adress( prob will if this takes a even turn for the worse ). But I have not heard both sides of the story like you guys also mentioned. Just her side and a phone convo from him.
I would like to see both parties together face to face and see what happens

I'd hate to slander anyone. Being in the middle its really not my part to do it.Plus I buy dateless buffalos at 25 cents each and doing pretty good restoring them from this guy.So for me he gives a fair deal on those.

The hubby and wife will have decide to persue it before I can really help.

Its gonne be hard to take a coin from them and go get a refund to her charge card if she is not with me in person .thats the position I'm in.

so its only a week to wait till chirstmas, my hope is if he does not offer a full refund hopefully some store credit on other things.At the correct price ofcoarse


When the hubby gets in christmas and goes in person to the shop and if nothing is done. This legal recoarse will prob be the only option.

Well the 1955-d she paid 400 for
is on ebay for $325 better grade

Now If he takes legal recource would the owner be able to say hey others are selling them at $325
that within %20 variance.

Sure the grade is lower on the one she bought , but it does not strenghten a case from the plantiffs point of view.

makes me start to wonder if " what people will pay , will hold up in court " versus what a book says.

Year ago I saw on t.v elvis underpants were sold at auction expecting to draw in $5,000 they had E.P in ink written in them them from when he was in the service and they did 10 times what was expected

At least it is only a $400 mistake. She'll take it as a learning experience and hopefully never repeat the error.

Not as bad as the $16,000 mistake where someone buys a $40k vehicle, decide they don't like it after a couple months, and trades it in for another new one. Oops 20% off the lot depreciation x 2. Financial suicide "roll it into the new loan". Happens every day.

You guys are right it could be worse ALOT WORSE
she could have paid $3000 for a poor mans double die put into a real 55 DD slab and been totally defruaded

All in all I think her exp in some ways is good , sure loosing 400$ sucks
becuase she lost 400$ maybe her new husband will be cuatious on other stuff
like getting 2-3 estimates on home repairs, yard work , automotive work
Instead of getting taken to the cleaners by hiring someone that a recommending of a friend.

She was a widow along time 20 yrs and has only been with him a few years now , so he can keep a eye on her closer to avoid the rip offs she has had for the last 20 yrs

My first clue was when she ( before she met her new hubby 3 years ago other one passed away 23 yrs ago) around 5 years ago she had a random sales man come to her house
Outta the blue and sold her a water cleaner purifier. He told her the city water was posion and she could have health problems drinking it like cancer,tumors and even die from iron toxicity and unless she wanted to die she had to ether stop drinking the water or buy the system.
I kept asking her how much she paid for it ,almost a year later she admitted to have it installed was over $2500

That was my first hunch she was pretty niave , esp after being a widow for 20 years no one to guide her in finacial choices.

One plus is everyone on CC that has a wife with no knowledge of coins might want to tell the wife if you ever want to buy me a coin please take me with you , will wrap it and put it away untill my birthday/christmas.

I'll still lend a hand the best I can after christmas to see if they can get a refund/exchange
But I cant drag um down to the coin shop ether.

I will take all the evidence you guys helped compile . Like pics of a real 55 dd and prices , expert knowledge of a price for a 55-d dd how common they are , show her the discription and grade of her coin to verify its a 55-d dd not a 55 dd.

She is a old lady 66, a real push over just trying to do nice things for people He is almost 70 but I think he will be ticked once I show him the pics and the prices, would not surprise me if he went down there with a gun in his hand and shoved it in the guys nose, with all the crazy stuff on tv nowadays its prob would not even make the 6 oclock news, unless he pulls the trigger.