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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Worthless information, any one can pick prices from anywhere.. real prices are determined between an educated buyer and a educated seller,, period..
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Valued Member
United States
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Must be the Coin Vault. Every coin they sell, they always trot out, we got some comparison pricing from the nation's leading catalog, lol. I can only guess they are using Littleton Coin list prices as their comparables. Kinda like when Rick Tomaska uses ebay listing prices as sales comps, lol. No appraiser uses sales listings, its closed sales Rick |
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Rest in Peace
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If yer watching TV for your coins, you really must believe the Bachlorette is reality TV!  Oh, and a TV purchase, just because of overhead...snort...you still gotta be a:  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I can only guess they are using Littleton Coin list prices as their comparables. They are. At one time I saw them making the comparison and the showed the catalog. I had a copy of the same Littleton catalog. |
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Pillar of the Community
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you really must believe the Bachlorette is reality TV WHAT? The Bachlorette isn't real?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
744 Posts |
I remember the guy on TV saying the Dime in the March of Dimes set was going to be priceless in the future!! You can still find the set for about $85...  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Gilligan's Island was the original reality show. The ones trying to pass as reality shows today are probably more heavily scripted.  |
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Valued Member
United States
438 Posts |
That is some serious markup!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2213 Posts |
The TV guys are hucksters, pure and simple. They will hawk a small collection of better date coins--shown in BU condition--and give the BU value, but then nowhere in the pitch do they say that you will receive BU coins. They just concentrate on the date, and then send you G to VG coins. They're assuming that the audience doesn't understand how condition affects the price, even if it's a semi-rare coin. (Which, in most cases, is true.)
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08/02/2018 8:06 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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The TV guys are hucksters, pure and simple. They will hawk a small collection of better date coins--shown in BU condition--and give the BU value, but then nowhere in the pitch do they say that you will receive BU coins. They just concentrate on the date, and then send you G to VG coins. There may be one that do that but most and the biggest one doesn't. What they say you will get you get it's just pricey |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2213 Posts |
Thanks for the clarification. I've only seen one on cable TV and that's what they do.
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Valued Member
United States
419 Posts |
When I used to watch more TV, I would see those ads for US type sets. Course the ad would show coins in nice shape. But I am sure you would be getting well worn common dates in a "special" holder. Usually just the shipping was more than the coins were worth.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Coin prices on TV are like the car sales commercials.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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When I used to watch more TV, I would see those ads for US type sets. Course the ad would show coins in nice shape. But I am sure you would be getting well worn common dates in a "special" holder. Did you buy one and that is what you got? Or are you just making a assumption based on their bad reputation among collectors for their prices? True you MIGHT get exactly what you are saying simply because they can't show every set, but until you actually buy and receive such a set it is unfair to assume they are running a "bait and switch". |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 TV sales guys are hucksters, and tv buyers are suckers. Makes you wonder if tv coin buyers even know of ebay?  |
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