Need A New Coin Shop

How would another shop have the exact same coins, though? :p

Grading is pretty important. Telling someone the reason for a grade is better than flat-out telling someone their opinionized grade without backing.

But, it's his shop, and he can price them however he wants. He may be trying to weed out knowledgeable customers and attracting more first-time (once-only!) buyers, which is pretty backwards, IMO.

Is it that his coins were overpriced or overgraded? I figure that you as a collector are more interested in high-grade, and wouldn't haggle over the grade but the price. Correct?

I am done with online buy/sell/trade transactions. The last three from this forum alone were nightmares. I quit ebay a long time ago.




Well you tell me. He had both 48's I needed in what was supposed to be MS60 (Numismedia= $19.20) for $29.95. They looked AU to me, I have found better looking Frank's from roll hunting than what he had this time. It was if his whole attitude had changed and I do feel that it is because of the PM craze has created a herd of ignorant buyer's who will pay extraordinary prices for coin simply because "they are old, so they have to be worth a lot of money". Up until now this guy gave out Ike $'s as change. He now sells them for $5 each and says he can not keep them in stock. In the immortal words of Obi Wan........."once you start down a path to the dark side, it will forever dominate your destiny"

You know, like others said, it is his shop and he can price however he wants.

HOWEVER, how do you run a business like that? Whatever happened to making your customers happy?

Folks want this hobby to expand, but this coin dealer isn't helping the hobby any. He's hurting it.

Boy are you outdated. Statistics show it's more like 31 Million. AND according to the hospital I go to, none can be refused there as long as they state they are illigal. So keep paying your tax share of that.


This is a horrible situation for many, many people everywhere. Not a lot of solutions for that problem either.
Naturally you could move to another area.
Or try Google for possible coin shops in nearby towns, counties, etc. Might be surprized at what you find.
On line dealers are like flys, they are everywhere and you have no idea what they are really like.
The best thing to do is attain enough posts right here so you can buy and sell to members of this forum. That does not guarantee they are any better, me for example, but I'd rather trust a CCF member than almost any on line dealers.
Don't know why but in some areas coin shops and/or places that buy/sell coins is excessive. And in other places few to none.

Did you mention these to forum management? These are not the practices of people we're willing to allow to deal here.

If the last trade is not in my mail box when I get home tomorrow, I'll be posting the entire email thread right here for all to see. I figure that should be more than enough time for two 40% Ken's to get here from Massachusetts seeing how they were supposed to have been mailed out on Aug 13th, or was it Aug 22nd, NO Wait! They went out on the 25th...............again, returned twice for lack of postage I was told. The other two were early this winter and I have forgotten who they were, but I was not the only one with a problem dealing with those guys.

wow, this is disturbing on several points. I'm really disappointed to hear that deals made here on the forum turned out to be flops (Tim's words). I've made some small transactions and nothing in precious metals and all have been wonderful. The other troubling thing is just hearing again about the PM craze. this kills me. I cannot get some coins for collecting purposes because the darn things have a little silver in them and folks just want to charge an arm and a leg for them. Neither of which I'm willing to part with! I happen to also be in an area that seemingly lacks a coin shop that is interested in collecting vs. buying and selling precious metals. I walked into the one shop that is anywhere near my home the other day for the first time. I was somewhat greeted by the owner but it was clear he didn't really want to be engaged in conversation. He was busy pouring and counting washingtons or franklins or something silver! Anyway, I'm a dark side collector and his selection (that I could see0 was limited. He got a phone call and I knew I was not going to be a repeat customer when he wanted to buy a small order of Krugerrands for about $23K. Wow! I'm not even an eye on that small potato!

On a bright side, I was 2 1/2 hours away from home in a tiny little town and there was a "collectibles" shop that had coins, actually a coin shop that had a few collectibles as it turned out. I bought some German 5 mark coins (they had silver in them) but was able to do so at a reasonable price, actually as it turns out below melt - heaven forbid!