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I like to optimistically consider it the same mindset that offers people comfort when they use a Wishing Well. Or, they want to be like a huge accident involving an armored truck which scatters their money in the breeze.
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The telemarketers would state that the 2010 Lincoln cents are a sold out limited edition. Other phrases that come to mind. "Order now to avoid future regrets." "With the price of gold on the rise, we can only guarantee this price for a limited time." "A strict limit of 10 per household."
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We would like to request only people with the last names starting with A-M order today and N-Z tomorrow to lessen long wait times for ordering these limited time coins.
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Not available in stores anywhere.
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 Novelty Lincolns. there's a buyer for everything. but I think I'll pass on this once in a lifetime deal.  |
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I wouldn't want to pay $10 for those, but I do have to admit they at least look better than the standard shield cents...
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Can wait to find one in a penny roll one day lol. I found a 1998 penny the other day and I was like why. Well now I know :)
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20 cents for 11 bucks? It almost feels like buying from the U.S. Mint.
Also, when did Sears turn into an Amazon-esque e-tailer? Sears was a place I used to buy car batteries and quality tools. Apparently now I can get gold-plated cents along with my Crafstman radial arm saw. In all fairness, this is a actually very Sears-like thing to do if you go back many decades. One used to be able to buy EVERYTHING from Sears, including an entire house out of the Sears catalog.
At least the house was worth something though...
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One used to be able to buy EVERYTHING from Sears, including an entire house out of the Sears catalog. It's come full circle. Sears (and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward) started big-scale retailing as generalists. It became obvious over the years that specializing was a more efficient business model, and now we have baseball cap stores. With the advent of the Internet, the original model is now the most efficient one. If you offer everything, your customers don't need to shop anywhere else and the Internet is able to give anyone the ability to sell everything. Even online presences like Best Buy and Newegg (in my wheelhouse for their specialties, which is why I use them as examples) are now conglomerating a wide array of outside vendors into their sites. Retailers are a different breed of middleman now. I can't wait for numismatics to catch up. And it will. Soon. No doubt somebody's already working on it, and Vcoins has been doing it for years. |
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Remember the Sears Catalogs, especially the Wish Book, and the coin and stamp collecting items they had? I received many coin related Christmas presents courtesy of Sears. Ah, the good old days, right?  Fun fact, an LCS I used to visit back in the mid 1980's was actually in a back corner of the Sears. He could not afford a full space in the mall and the Sears was big enough to sublet space to some smaller vendors. Pretty cool actually. |
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We would like to request only people with the last names starting with A-M order today and N-Z tomorrow to lessen long wait times for ordering these limited time coins. I haven't heard that one for a long time now. I always wondered if anyone figured out that this would be repeated over and over and over. As to those Lincoln Cents. I'll bet they do get sold. There are always people that will buy almost anything. |
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One used to be able to buy EVERYTHING from Sears, including an entire house out of the Sears catalog. The idea that you could buy a whole house from a Sears catalog always fascinated me. I don't think they sold a whole lot of them and I do know that only a few of them are still around. I don't remember if you could buy the construction from Sears but I don't think so. |
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The idea that you could buy a whole house from a Sears catalog always fascinated me. A character on Boardwalk Empire did that. |
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One used to be able to buy EVERYTHING from Sears, including an entire house out of the Sears catalog. My friend bought a car (and still has it) that Sears sold back in the 1950's. It's a "Henry J", and he uses it yearly at car shows in our area. As for the cents; almost all of the coins we buy nowadays are overpriced at some level, so I'm not too startled by the $11 cost. I just viewed a dealer selling recent "S" cents for over $11 EACH, so getting twenty for the same price is not a problem. |
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