...they know how to treat people well.

Recently I arranged to buy an 1883-O Morgan dollar from another forum user. It wasn't a big deal really. The coin was a MS63, so not expensive. I paid the seller and spent the next week waiting on the coin. After a week I decided to ask if the seller had any info on where the coin was (like a tracking number) because I was afraid that the coin had been lost in the mail.

Long story short, through a sequence of events that was kinda funny, the coin had spent a week in an envelope in his girlfriend's car. What wasn't funny, was that he was willing to look into this, and find out what had happened to the coin for me, at 2 AM (We're both night owls it would seem). Most people (understandably) wouldn't have dealt with me until the morning. To top things off, he repacked the coin, with an "extra goodie" tossed in, and shipped it out - priority mail this time.

Given the nature of the coin, the low price I paid, and the cost of shipping, I know he couldn't have made any money off of this but he was never grumpy or irritable in his messages to me. Then I got the extra goodie.

I had been expecting something like a raw Kennedy half. I opened the package to find not 1, but 2 slabbed Morgans in the package. 1 was the NGC MS63 I'd paid for; 1 was an 1883-O PCGS AU58. That really just stunned me; that he'd sent another slabbed coin with $14 of silver in it, as an apology for making me wait a week on a low dollar purchase (and it really wasn't even entirely his fault).

This is the 3rd time I've purchased a coin from him. It's really unlikely that this will be the last. I hope he isn't embarrassed by this post, but then I don't even know if he reads the journals so I guess we'll see. (I don't think his Registry Id and his forum Id are the same).

My mother really likes the Morgans. Maybe I'll let her have the AU58 (I'm just not sure what to do with it with the MS63 around).