terick2104 wrote:Then what does this sentence imply? 'IF YOU ARE BUYING A MACHINE FROM A DEALER/COLLECTOR AND THEY ARE NOT A MEMBER OF COPS THEN THERE IS PROBABLY A GOOD REASON. NO NEED TO SAY ANYMORE.
This publicly-posted question was for the admin, but I think it’s a valid one-- and as a member of both COCA and COPS I found it provocative-- so I’d like to answer from my own perspective.
It is alleged that the COPS founder claims that, if any “dealer/collector” is “not a member of COPS,” then “there is probably a good reason.”
Here’s a few:
Good Reason #1: “I am a veteran coin-op dealer and my reputation and bona fides are all well in order with everyone that matters, and I already know my customers and contacts hold me in high regard for my honesty and integrity. I don’t need to sign up with any organization to validate my efforts, least of all a newly-created, web-based group that spun off of some fractious discussion board full of newbies.”
Good Reason #2: “I’m just a casual and enthusiastic collector with about a half-dozen machines, but I’m not all that serious about making a life’s work out of antique coin-op devices. Nevertheless, I’m very sure the items in my collection are all genuine and valuable. I’m now sadly trying to sell a couple of them because my high school-aged daughter is going to need her junker car repaired. What would be the point of me joining any sort coin-op association?!?”
Good Reason #3: “I’m a long-standing, dues-paying member of COCA, a venerable organization with an iron-clad Code of Ethics, and I’m absolutely certain that any member of COCA that raped, faked or otherwise misrepresented a vintage coin-op device or took advantage of the naivety of novice collectors for purposes of financial gain would be run out of town with a pitchfork up his behind!”
OK, maybe GR#3 isn’t all that compelling…
No need to say more.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:06 pm