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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm tempted to buy a offer from littleton. The 8 Presidential dollars for face from 2014. My main question is has anyone had experiences dealing with their introductory offers? If you call them after you order it can you request for them not to send you coins on examination? I have way too many coin shops around here to do that where I live. I don't mind getting ads and stuff from them. Just don't want to waste both of our times and their money. A slightly more devious question is how often can you respond to such offers? |
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Pillar of the Community
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send back all the other junk.
i got the NA set of 4 P&D from them and they came in a screw top roll with some foam.
Now they offer the full set of 6 but only 1 mintmark random.
check everything you get from them twice.
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I had a "relationship" with them and their approval service thirty years ago. It was not all bad since I filled a lot of holes with decent coins. Yes, the coins were nice (no junk), but the prices were a bit steep. However, considering where I lived at the time it was the price of convenience. I was also happy that they were sending me the stuff that I needed, and not the stuff they thought I needed. The relationship ended when I moved. For some reason they did not get the forwarding address.  Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you have read many posts in the past, you would have seen many about that company. Most are OK except once your on their mailing list, they start sending you STUFF regardless if you want it or not. Difficult to get them to stop. Also, most say overpriced.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I'm ok with it as long as they don't start charging my credit card for random stuff. I guess they will send me stuff for inspection no matter what the first time. It's not too bad as long as they stop after the first shipment I send back.
I wasn't clear with my question, I was wondering if anyone had been successful calling before they ship the coins so you could preemptively stop them from sending the extra unwanted coins. Or wheter it's just best to play their game before saying no.
Edited by Bertensgrad
12/17/2014 11:24 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When I was a young kid, I bought some coins from them. Which was high then. a 31S LWC for $8 and a 37D 3 legged Buffalo if I remember around $25-30 area. Took a while to save the money from a paper route |
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United States
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It's not too bad as long as they stop after the first shipment I send back. Well, it will be bad then. History says that getting them to stop is not going to be easy. Quote:
I was wondering if anyone had been successful calling before they ship the coins so you could preemptively stop them from sending the extra unwanted coins. Doubtful. The whole purpose of these offers is to get you hooked into the approval service. You will not know until you try, but to do that you will have to risk the headache. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm a young um with a lot or patience or my mom says persistant stubbornness haha so I feel like I can take the headache. I let them send the first batch and I will then send it back with a cancellation notice. If they send any after I call them too, I'm keeping them until they send my return shipping to give them. I can get pretty mean. I've been raised by too many lawyers in my family :).
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12/17/2014 3:28 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I wasn't clear with my question, I was wondering if anyone had been successful calling before they ship the coins so you could preemptively stop them from sending the extra unwanted coins OH yeah. I have never gotten another coin from Littleton, but get the catalogs and such for a while after. I called to see how the "send it all back" works and because the sticker wasnt working like a sticker and wasnt peeling off to put on the bag to send them back and had them give me instructions and confirmation that I was sending them all back, and then they confirmed with me when I got them. I told them the only reason I got the dollars was because my mother wanted the pennies that came free, and she said they hear that a lot that people want the pennies. Probably because they got so many is why NOBODY else can find the 2009 set! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What do you do to ship them back just put a sticker on them and place them in my residential mailbox? Do they include postage and a box/envelope to send the first examination coins back to them? Mostly just wondering how big of a hassle that part of the step was. I'm ok with calling them to tell them to stop. I just hate mailing packages. It's the main reason I don't sell on ebay. Edited by Bertensgrad
12/18/2014 02:57 am
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
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I did that sort of thing many years ago with a book club........never again
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
Yeah, book clubs are so shady. I'm hoping Littleton is as reputable as people say it is. I figure that their free lunch catch is that they just super overcharge for crap. I want my dollars and quarter and run :). Otherwise the places around here want $24 for them combined.
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Pillar of the Community
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They send some silver/metla/plastic security type bag, that you pale the coins in and a maling label/sticker on, then seal it up with the pull-ohh strip thing and shove it in your mailbox. I took mine to the post office and handed it to then to made sure it got to the post office at least.
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Valued Member
United States
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Does face value include shipping? Presidential dollars usually go on ebay for little over value. But, add shipping and think, then think again. I suspect this is similar. |
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The current offer from last Sundays paper, gets you the first 6 Native American dollar coins (they pick the mint mark) for $6, free shipping and for $2.50 more you can add a Sacagawea dollar coin folder to your order. So If you just want the 2009~2014 design NAs, you can get them for $6. And it comes with a free set of 2009 pennies, one of each design. So you can pay $6, and get $6.04 from them, and it is free to ship back the other coins they send for you to "inspect" Edited by shadz
12/22/2014 02:38 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I ended up going for it. I got 8 2014 Presidential dollars p and d for $8. Also got one bonus quarter free. No shipping costs. So I paid $8 for $8.25 face of mostly NCLT. The big thing is how annoying it will be to cancel and send the inspection crap back. Money wise it's super cool but time wise idk. |
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