Rodebaugh wrote:So a gal called my dad's house trying to hunt me down. Just like a good bit of you RC folks I am the "coin guy" in my corner of the US. This gal was interested in selling some silver halves that she had collected as a teller at the local bank (about 50 face mix of 40-90%). Somewhere along the line I made her an offer to buy them at a dollar each. My guess is this was quite some time ago as that seems a tad low by today's spot price. Well she was ready to sell at a $1 per coin. I'm no longer living in the area so dad follows up with the gal and does the deal on my behalf. Gal's son (she has been ill as of late) shows up to do the deal. Dad does his valution and asked the son what he wants to sell them for. Sure enough he multiplies the total coin count x $1 each. Dad responds that he would love to do the deal but he would also like to sleep tonight. So dad counteroffers with a FMV that leaves a little wiggle room for flip + profit. The seller is floored by the extra loot. Both folks walk away happy. Local goodwill often pays dividends.
So....Nice work Dad,
Chris
You know what Chris? all day long, i read the most savage, cruel, greed-head "stuff", happening all over the world, and then i read this.
THIS, the way Dad did business, quote,
Dad responds that he would love to do the deal but he would also like to sleep tonight.
........makes me feel, all is not lost. Like small twinking lights, there are people, that are NOT consumed by badness and greed, that do live this: "love your neighbor as yourself". ....and that makes me, selfishly wish that a CORE of posters HERE, came to live in MY SHIRE, ("ours") this county of 29,000 souls in this 816 square miles...(the "tri-county" area is 2,000 square miles...and that population is 64,000 souls...its the land of milk and honey...literally, wood and CLEAN water...deep.....hills covered in cattle, hardwoods...a beautiful place)
thats a good testimony man. You know how you said, "i'm know as the coin man'?....right?.....i cant do THAT. 99.999% of the folks around here, good people, but there's no LCS around here...in none of the county seats, all have populations under 5,000....no coin dealers...there is one fella, who has a display case in our county seats antique store/gun shop....and God love him, but i look into his case, and just giggle. Its "dreamland" in that case, self slabbed morgans, a few Peace dollars.....you all would look at, and just....giggle, the guy is never there anyway.
My place is now like a "bank", and i'm around 99% of the time, but there is that .0001% i got to be concerned about, pillheads, crank shooters, wood thieves, just your basic trashe blanc. ...and if they KNEW what was HERE?...anyway, God bless you and your father, good men.
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:49 pm
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