I have been doing business here for years. Mario is always very friendly, honest & knowledgeable. He’s been a fantastic & reliably fair person to do business with. He’s always been well supplied even when there’s been turbulent markets and/or unusual supply-side issues. Despite even those pressures, Mario has always been more than fair with the going market “premium pricing” rates on precious metals/bullion. I’d argue he has the best pricing around IMO. I have NEVER had an issue where he hasn’t paid [or traded for] fair market value either. I have done business at other coin shops & I can honestly say Mario has ALWAYS treated me the best & been the most consistent/reliable guy out there. Mario is a no BS, honest straight-shooter kind of guy. We are privileged to have someone like him running a small merchant business in our community. I have been proud to refer my own neighbors & a few of my family members & friends to him as well. All of them continue to enjoy doing business with Mario...
   Read moreI stopped in to look around. Very little was on display compared to many other shops I've been in. This might have been OK except that I was in the store for at least five minutes and there were no signs of life. I finally left without having seen anyone in the store. Besides being truly appalling security and customer service, it made me wonder if whoever was supposed to be there was OK. Not sure if I'll waste another trip to Sycamore to...
   Read moreTo start off when I first went into the store there was no one to greet me I thought the place was empty. Finally a gentleman approached me and all he tried to do was sell me gold. He was quite rude and talked down to me the whole time. I went in a second time and he refused to buy back his own items and his prices are nearly 1.25 times that of spot value. And like others have said he doesn’t give receipts. Overall I wouldn’t...
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