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 Posted 06/18/2012  12:08 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ragpicker to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Don't you love it when people find out that you collect currency or your set up at a coin show and they want to know the value of a note that they did NOT bring you to see?

Then they get all upset when you tell them that you really can not appraise it without actually seeing it.

They just don't get it until I ask them to appraise me car that I have for sell in my drive way. (There is no car in my driveway)

Anybody else have this happen to them?
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 Posted 06/18/2012  12:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nickelman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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 Posted 06/18/2012  1:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add The Bill Collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Many, Many, times right here on this forum.
All you have to do is read a days worth of messages, there seems to be way more non-collectors here than collectors, and most of them seem to think that us collectors have a crystal ball.

From the questions asked I believe that most of them are young children just wounding if the wrinkled up bill they found in change or at the bank is worth something more than just a $ 1.00
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 Posted 06/18/2012  8:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add COMET to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Personally I find those people lazy. In this day and age all you have to do is google or ebay. It doesn't take a lot of work to find out the grade or value of anything.
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 Posted 06/18/2012  8:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Windchild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
with Comet

@The Bill Collector
Don't put down young children period!
During grade 2 I was reading Harry Potter at speeds of a book per week and was getting 100% on reading comprehension questions!
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 Posted 06/18/2012  9:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add The Bill Collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Windchild,
I also agree with comet,
Now what makes you think I am putting down young children ?.

And what does you reading Harry Potter at speed have to do with currency collecting ?.

If your interested in Currency Collecting let us know how many Currency books you have read and what have you learned from them ?.

If you agree with comet your agreeing that the "kids" asking all those "how much is it worth" questions are
lazy, even if there not really kids there acting like young children that want everything handed to them and have very little interest in collecting currency, other than what it's worth.

I have never put down any young children that were interested in currency collecting, in face if you check some of my past post you will see that I have "given" a lot of currency away to younger and beginning collectors at no cost to them.
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06/18/2012 9:09 pm
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 Posted 06/18/2012  10:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Windchild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@TheBillCollector

I take

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From the questions asked I believe that most of them are young children just wounding if the wrinkled up bill they found in change or at the bank is worth something more than just a $ 1.00

as putting down young children. If it is about a bill/ coin that they can easily find on the internet, then I do think that it is total laziness, as I showed earlier. However, I am about to post a bill that I have spent over 10 hours trying to identify and I still can't find out what that bill is.

Harry Potter is an example that I use of young children doing things that most adults can't do.

As I just got into the hobby (started to research further than the country that a coin came from), all I have read is three books; The Red Book (2013), A Kid's Guide to Collecting Coins, and One Coin is Never Enough: Why and How We Collect. I would recommend reading the last one, as it is partially a book on coins and partially a psychology text, about what draws us, as collectors, to collect coins.

Comet states "those people", not kids, which is a much better way to put it as, if you say kids, it sounds like children are much less capable then adults, which isn't true. I did miss the grading part, which can be hard for people unused to coin grading (I am currently finding it hard so I can put that honesty).

Afternote; as I am 14 years old, I do not take people putting down kids kindly. I have been put down too many times by adults before they really know me, and don't believe what I tell them.

Also; I apologize how the first one reads.. I didn't read it over before posting so it looks a little sharper than I meant for it to be.
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06/18/2012 10:23 pm
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 Posted 06/19/2012  11:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ragpicker to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I was set up at a coin show this past weekend and had a woman almost demand that I tell her what her $50.00 notes were worth. Of course she did not bring them with her, but that did not stop her from demanding a quote on the value of the notes.

I simply told her "that without seeing them.... they were worth face value". This is not what she wanted to hear, but what else could I say without seeing them and getting locked into her demanding that I buy they?
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I've had people bring me their "perfect", "mint condition" notes to look at. I have seen scotch-taped notes; notes with missing pieces; washed and ironed notes (because they had some creases); even notes glued to bristol board. I was told in every case that these notes were perfect uncirculated notes.

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I have had people come to me describing coins and asking me what its worth and I tell them it is according to the condition of the item to how much its worth. They usually say something like "it looks brand new because I took a brillo pad to it and got all the dirt off of it" that is when I just shake my head and tell them its worth what ever the melt value is of that particular piece if it is made of precious metals at all
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