Buying At Coin Shows

Bryan, I don't have anything like that good a story but I know the attitude you describe first hand.

When I was trading in my "grad school car"--a Saturn SC2--for my "first job car," I checked out a number of makes and models. When I went to look at the Maxima, I got interrogated about why I was making "such a big jump up." Never mind that the difference was just about $10k, it was clear that the salesman thought I was out of my league.

Anyway, I bought a Lexus ES300.

Fast forward 5 years, it was time to get a family car. I bought a Honda Pilot from a different dealer in the same auto group as the Nissan dealership. When it was time to go over my paperwork for the Pilot, all the Honda sales managers were gone so they took me over to a Nissan sales manager. Needless to say, I told him about his rotten salesman 5 years passed.

Ah, dealers. Gotta love'em.
Did anyone ever ask about a
coin, and while you were talking
the booth partner slips out and
goes to another booth and returns
with what you asked about? Dealer
pricing and a dealer split.
I don't general ask price much
I let them offer and try and be
as uninterested as possible with
the offer. It usually sinks a bit.
Then switch coins and start over
with a new coin. I usually go early
to a show, never want to be around
a tired dealer after a long day, then
they can be a little short, I would be
too.

In my opinion you should dress as you normaly would, they shouldn't judge you by how you are dressed and if they do you shouln't give them your business.

Thanks all for the stories. Gave me a chuckle. Not really a laughing matter though. You all talked me into it. I will go in there this weekend and put it to a test. I'm going to dress to impress take a wad of cash that he will see(knowing he won't get a dime of it) and see how loud the money will talk. I'll let you know how it comes out.