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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 1169905, member: 10944&quot;]There’s only one left in my part of town. I went in about a year ago. I was hoping to find some good prices on collectible bullion or coins. We shot the shit for like 30 mins on the unfortunate nature of brick and mortar disappearing and everything moving online. His business has dwindled to very little and it closed the other two shops in the area. Finally got to looking at his small selection of bullion. There was some unique old stuff I was unfamiliar with and some newer stuff I was well versed on. I asked him the prices of a few things. Each time he said he had to check. I watched him try to be discrete checking his phone. I’m positive he was just checking eBay and quoting me the highest prices. I wouldn’t have paid anywhere close to what he was asking. There was one interesting set of Lincoln Automobile sterling bars he had. I was actually very likely to buy them if he gave me a decent price. There was no sold listing or even unsold full set listing on eBay I later saw. Despite the fact he was the owner and almost definitely the only employee he told me he didn’t know the price and would have to check. Told me to come back in sometime soon and he would have a price for me. I said I would and didn’t. I would totally get it he didn’t know spot off the top of his head and had to look it up and do some quick math. Just checking eBay for every price and quoting me the high end really irked me though. Particularly after we had a long conversation about it dooming his industry. Then not being able to give a price that day as the owner!?!? I mean if it was a potentially extremely valuable item he had just got in I could see it. Some dusty old sterling bars he had probably laying there for years though...The experience put a bad taste in my mouth and I haven’t been back. You’ve gotta give me a reason to shop with you. I was looking forward to forming a relationship that might be mutually beneficial. No one wants to sell their stuff way below market value but that wasn’t a good model.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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