Not Quite Sure How I Feel About This....

So coin shops around here where I live are few and far between, and when one is found it's either just a bullion dealer who buys junk silver and never really has any good numismatic coins in stock, or its grandpa's place to get away and smoke cigs all day with his coin collecting buddies and all he has for sale is all the junk he never really wanted.

I digress...

For a while now I've noticed a Pawn Shop in a part of town with a worn out old sign up, kinda like no one is there to take care of it...like it was opened and then went under...every time I go past it there are no cars and no one is around...the building just looked empty from what I could tell driving buy. So today I find my self driving home past this place and I see cars in the parking lot. I think to myself...stop in and see if they are indeed legit and see if they have coins...They were open and as I walked in I saw a show case with graded silver eagles, silver bullion, etc..... So I ask the guy, hey do you buy coin collections? He answers, "Yes, I've been buying coins for almost 50 years" . I though fantastic...so I asked him, where are they coins you sell? His answer is, "Oh, I don't sell coins" So I say, "oh?!, are you a collector?" He say's, "No, not at all!" So I say oh...so do you just flip what you sell to other coin dealers? He says, "No..i just put it all back in my three vaults." "So you're not a collector, you don't sell, do you just consider your self a hoarder?", I asked...He says well...no I don't hoard, I just supposed one of these days when I decide to retire, I'll get the stuff out and start selling it..., I say, "well great...here's my number and name...can you call me when you get ready to do that?" He says, "Well I could lie to you and tell you yea...but I won't, I don't know when that will be and I think the bottom is going to fall out from underneath the coin collecting world just like it did baseball cards. The Chinese fakes are just getting to good and rampant, PCGS is now being fooled by them...i think that just gonna blow the whole coin collecting world to smithereens in the next 5 to 10 years."

Then this guys tells me about some of the collections he's purchased...mint state Seated Liberty halves by the roll, rolls of BU whatevers...V nickels out the wazoo...all just sitting in the vault...but he's not a collector and doesn't give a rat's you know what about "having a specific coin, like a 1909 S VDB or this coin or that coin" (his words not mine)

So you have this hoard, that is worth a whole bunch of money, in a genre of collecting that you feel is going to have the bottom fall out of and you don't plan on selling until after that happens? Mean while guys like me are struggling to find really good stuff we can touch and feel before we buy because folks like you are just buying it and hoarding it for no reason apparently

Rant over...

The guys was really nice, and of course I kept my disproving and disappointment to myself and actually had a long conversation about coins and coin collecting. Joked around with him and told him I was just going to have to figure out how to pry his mind open to selling to me. Some of the stuff that he said he has is crazy...i just want to see it.

Help me out here...I'm not trying to feel or come across as entitled to this guys coins...I guess if I keep dropping by to visit and chat with him, and bothering him...if I strike up a friendship with him maybe one day he'll call me...but all I can keep thinking is A) those poor coins...no one to enjoy them, all boxed up and bagged up...are they protected...are they going to look ok when they finally come out of the vault one day? and B) why hoard them if you don't care about numismatics, don't want to sell...and don't have faith in the sustainability of the hobby?!

Anyone ever come across this kind of thing?