Coin Shop Problem

I say just let it go. It is not worth the potential bad feelings between the store and you. As you said in your letter it was probably a mistake on the part of an employee. Let it go, people make mistakes.

Do you think Walmart would let you walk out of the store with a $1500 dollar TV for $300 just because someone accidentally mis-tagged it? I'll answer that for you. No, they wouldn't. And before anyone gets all lawyered up... no, they don't have to. I think you're being a little petty.

Oddly enough your really wrong there. Not only would they but they have and I know for a fact that similar situations in many stores will comply with customers if a product is mislabled.
At a Kmart they had a sale on TV antenna rotors for $29.95. Completely mislabled so I purchsed one and they then took the rest out and published a sorry statement.
I've done similar things at Walmart, Sears, etc. with many items. Just say I want to see the manager and poof, it's yours. At a different place they had labled a Compound Bear Brand Bow for $15.00. I got as far as the cash register and again, just said get the manager. They did and that is what I paid.
There is a law called false advertising your know.
As for this letter, I surely would give it to that store owner. He is actually in violation of false advertising.

Carl, you have no clue what you're talking about. I suggest you do some research before you start typing. The may indeed do it for you, but they do not have to. Period. End of story. A price tag in error is not false advertising. Another period. Another end of story.

You know you can be so adamant about honesty on here, but you have no problem messing with over a store owner because of a simple mistake. That's sad. Pitiful actually.

Where does that logic come from? They fixed the mistake without you paying a dime. They didn't belong in the silver bucket, and now they're not. Nobody cheated you or made you pay anything. You're just upset that they caught the mistake before you got out of the store.

That's why I called it a mistake. Because they were still in there. Get it? You're upset because they didn't let you take advantage of the mistake. For that, you're going to cause a fuss and start all kinds of crap that doesn't need to happen. Get it? It was no extra work for you, you were going through the bucket anyway. The right, honest, moral, or whatever you want to call it, thing to do would have been to say "Hey, I don't think these were meant to be in here" and handed them to them. It's quite obvious you knew it was a mistake, and you're mad you didn't make it out the door with them.

Do you like this store? Do you want a long relationship with this store? Do you have an alternate store when they stop allowing you to go through their melt bucket?

Think of it this way: You spent 30 or 40 minutes sorting through the bucket. Did you take up a table or counter while you did it? Then you bought items from the melt bucket. What percentage is the store really making here on the 30-40 minutes they gave you? They have a lot of overhead, and those misplaced coins could erase all of it and then some. If they are turning over their stock frequently, then they bought that 90% silver recently at a few percent different price than you are buying it.

I sort though 90% dimes at my local store very frequently. I always point out anything that I think might not belong and ASK if I can have it at the melt price. I think this helps build up a good relationship with the store. They don't have to "worry" about me. Usually I get the stuff I point out -- 1992 silver proof Roosevelt, G grade Barbers -- but sometimes they say, "oops, sorry" -- Seated Liberty dime.

Let me ask this, if you found nickel clad coins in the bucket, would you expect to be charged silver prices?

If you press this, the store could very well stop allowing you to sort and begin only selling silver unsorted. (Some stores have a different price for sorting than "random grab".)

I understand that it was REALLY disappointing to find something like that and then not get it, and maybe a compromise price would have been in order. But the same thing has happened to me, and I think you have to decide whether it's worth losing your welcome.