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Never bought from them... their prices and typical product quality simply don't make them worth consideration for me.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Correct. Littleton is not interested in appealing to informed collectors, but only to uninformed casual readers. This has been their model for 6 decades or more.
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Valued Member
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Anybody out there remember the Columbia Record Club?
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Rest in Peace
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HEY! There was one great club in years gone by, having nothing to do with coins, but of the same type.
SF&F Book Club. When people still bought books...
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Anybody out there remember the Columbia Record Club? Yes. The secret was knowing when to quit.  |
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Yes. The secret was knowing when to quit. I quit and resigned a couple of times. I did alright in that club |
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I'm surprised this topic is getting so much attention. 4 pages worth at that.
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I have only seen Franklin halves, Washington quarters and Silver Eagles in their original packaging. I do not know what the coins cost. Every coin I have seen from Littleton in the past two years has been under graded! By that I mean coins graded "Uncirculated" getting MS-65. Last week a SE graded Uncirculated was actually an MS-70. Two others were MS-69's. Decades ago this company was considered "One of the full page advertisers that YOU STAY AWAY FROM." From what I've seen, they may have "cleaned up their act." So much so that I have complimented the owner on two occasions by phone. I don't have any idea if their prices are high. |
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The secret was knowing when to quit I took the original offer (great deal) and quit as soon as I received the first order. |
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Anybody remember Seattle FilmWorks? Another prime example of knowing when to quit.
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03/09/2016 9:58 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Never heard of them. What was their deal?
I agree that the key with Littleton is to grab what you want at a good/decent deal and jump ship ASAP. Among one or two other things, I received my 2 setts of 2008 Territories quarters from them for face that way.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm surprised this topic is getting so much attention. 4 pages worth at that. Due to how many people love that place.  Quote:
Anybody remember Seattle FilmWorks? Another prime example of knowing when to quit. Not so sure about quitting them. I used to use them alot. Free film but could only use them to develope. However, one of the first places to put your photos on a digital disc. Also, they could fix photos that were out of focus at no extra charge. And for a small charge they would sell you Computer programs to do all kinds of things with your photos. I still use one of them called Photoworks. No, not Photoshop, Photoworks. Edited by just carl
03/10/2016 10:49 am
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Anybody remember Seattle FilmWorks? Getting off-topic, but since it was brought up, wasn't at one time (way back) their deal providing Kodak 5254 (an emulsion for motion picture applications) repackaged for use in 35mm cameras? As I recall, you got back mounted tranparencies {slides} and negatives. The catch was that the film was not balanced for daylight and you needed a warming filter for natural looking color balance. But compared to a lot of still films of the day, the resolution and lack of grain was tremendous, so I used it a lot. Colligo ergo sum
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