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Posted By: warshawlaw

I nearly had a fistfight at a show in Anaheim about 14 years ago. I was set up next to this other dealer about 15 years older, a head shorter and much fatter than me. A customer standing just to the left of my table asks if I had a card. I did and he bought it. I think I made about $15. The dealer next to me pops a gut and starts yelling that I stole his customer because the guy was looking at something on his table (totally unrelated to what he asked me for, BTW) when he spoke to me. The pudgy moron came up and waggled his fist in my face and said "I could bury you!" I stood up and he ran away, but it spoiled the day for me.

One issue I just thought of: if you are at a table and you see a dealer offered a deal by someone who obviously doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground and the dealer is in the process of cheating him, what should you do? Would it matter if the person involved was a kid or an elderly person who seemed to be of diminished capacity (not senile, just frail)?