Coin Shop Problem

I'm seeing $600+ in G, so I'm not sure where the $400 number comes from.

I knew a guy who was told that he'd get paid monday, because they were closed friday. He raised a big stink and showed them where the contract said if they were closed friday, checks would be issued thursday. He got his pay.

The next person they hired as his superior was told the first order of business was to find a reason to fire him, which took about a week.

Like my friend, you may legally be right (I don't know), but the store has the right to refuse service to anyone, as long as they don't discriminate. Pushing the issue (anything beyond thanking the owner for looking into it, regardless of his decision) could get you banned, so you have to look at the overall relationship's value to you.

If you get banned, then it might even be worthwhile to take them to small claims court, since you have nothing to lose at that point.

Newspaper ads often have "not responsible for typos/errors", and I'm wondering if that goes without saying. Another angle is that the coins are the store's property until you pay for them, and as such, they can do whatever they want, including change the price or keep them.

One final idea. You might have gotten away with it if you pulled a handful of other near-bullion items from the bin. If they pulled the two coins, you could always refuse to buy the rest. If they didn't notice them mixed in with the others, you take a slight loss for the ones you didn't need, but bought for camouflage.

Not doubting your word, but I think it happened for a different reason than a law.

If I find a $50 item priced at $5 and they honor the price, they're out maybe $15. Simply responding to a letter of complaint could cost twice that much. If I escalate it to a small-claims court issue, it could easily cost them 100 times as much as if they gritted their teeth, handed it to me, and told me to have a nice day. This is true even if the win the case.

Compare this to an unincorporated mom and pop. The owner represents himself. If he loses, he's no worse off than if he met your initial demands. If he wins, he makes hundreds of dollars more than melt. It's to his benefit to fight it.

Well you did ask, didn't you. Isn't amazing how you can ask what time it is and eventually someone will tell you how fast trains travel?
I'd assume by now if you read all the replys, you've cooled off and possibly will just forget the entire situation. Go there again and see how things are.


Remember you did say that so it all may well have been in error. The past is the past.


Carefull. scubu will start ranting about how you don't know anything.

ok. I did not have time to read every post, but I frequent the 90% bins in my coin shop.

lately with this surge in silver I had the chance of buying some coins. the shop has a wall of coins that have coins in flips attached to paper with prices on them. the prices, the manager says, do not change. there are many silver halves and such right now below melt because the shop does not have the time to go and change the prices becuase of the silver price changing. the only thing they have control over are the 90% bins which they CAN change the price on easily.

so I go in there and I find a few GEM BU franklins marked at $11 and $12 bucks.when silver was making them over $13 along with many Barber halves and slqs under melt. I pointed all of these out to the guy to save them on their "mistakes" and he said it is what it is. he lost some money that day, but he kept a loyal customer.

some shops are different no doubt, but when you run a business you have to keep the customer in mind and account for those price mistakes.

i say write away, and let them know. you have a right and they have a responsibility. end of story

What he bought them for is irrelevant. If he could have sold them with his eyes closed for $250 and sold them for melt, he lost money. Over $200 in fact. Cost is nobody's business but his. Using cost as a justification in this scenario is really out of kilter. The fact that it's an assumption of cost makes it even worse.

I still say he would not lose money but not make as much money as he could.

I worked at Wal-mart as my first job in High School back in 1993. I can tell you that times were different back then. If someone got the manager involved, the customer was always right. It's not that way anymore. People took advantage of that policy. Now the response would be more like "sorry bout your luck." I guess that maybe if you threw a huge hissy fit scene, you may still get away with it. I don't know, I'm not that kind of guy.

What does this have to do with the original post? Absolutely nothing.