Overpriced Junk

Gold plated quarters, paoinede ASE's, ASE's with halo painting, all should be considered defacing ,of the coinage! HSN, Horse what network? It reeks of hen-house ways.
Dick

Yes, yes it is. But we need to remember that items like that are targeted to non collectors unlike us. The 24K hologram quarters are just trippy.

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Someday all this HSN and CV stuff will be dirt cheapat garage sales.

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It already is, I see this stuff and Fraklin Mint garbage come into my local shop everyday. He buys it for melt and that's it. This summer he had a complete set of these little cars engraved on silver bars from Franklin Mint. It has like 100 of them in a display case. Obviously, somebody subscribed to the "plan" and collected them for a long, long time. No idea what they paid, but it must have cost at least $1000-1500 to complete. My dealer bought them FOR BELOW MELT (hey, he's gotta make a profit). I almost made him an offer because it was actually neat, I could have bought the collection for a hair over melt or at melt. Man, of course silver skyrockets after that. LOL

You guys are not helping!!

I now see the errors of my newbie ways and after close magnified inspection of the first set of Presidential dollars I received I will be canceling the rest. Lots of abrasions/bag marks on the regular coins. The "reverse proofs" while nice looking to the naked eye, under 10x magnification look from crap! The "process" they use pretty much obliterates the lettering around the rim.

Ugh. I am a fool and you guys rubbing it in is not helping my self esteem. My wallet yes! My self esteem is in the dumpster...

Yes, I bought them before I found you guys and gals. Yes I am eternally grateful for you alerting me to this most egregious error before I spent over $1,200 over the next 8 years for the whole set.

1210 posts and you bought the presidential set from HSN?

Tell me it ain't so Prethen!!

Morgan said, " They should change their slogan to "HSN, 'cause there's a sucker born every minute""


How about Hose Sorry Now?

That 32 Washington quarter? in what? AG? G? condition? $19.95 plust $7.95 S&H (!!) for a total of $27.90 for a coin worth $5 - $6 that could be shipped for the price of a stamp.

I too have wondered who would actually buy those outrageously-priced coins that get pitched on cable channels in the middle of the night, and I think it's probably mostly grandmothers and bachelor uncles buying gifts for the kids in the family. Anybody who knows enough about coins to want to collect a few would know better. At least, I hope they would.

Jan

Jan, I need only look at the other stuff for sale on HSN to understand who'd buy those coins. If it aint a mop that picks your nose and cooks hot dogs -- and it aint a ring that's got 1000 diamond chips not worth a darn separately or collectively -- and it aint a PC with a 8,760,000 gigabyte hard drive (with dial-up technology only), then it's a 1955 tripled die Walking Capped Barber Tuppence minted in Oakland with Bobby Seale on one side (in his beret (cap) and Redd Foxx on the other (balded by a barber)-- and THEN, it's a $30 Washington quarter.

BUY ME NOW !!!!! Hurry, while supplies left.....only ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........2 left......39299 easy payments of $1...

Supplies !!.............errrrrrrrrrrrr.............I mean, SURPRISE !