J & M Coins Based In Vancouver.... Your Experiences

Good experiences for most part. They can be a bit sloppy handling low value coins (finger prints and bare hands), so make sure you check the items. Good selection, fair dealing.

In terms of prices, you can find cheaper elsewhere (ebay, auctions etc...), but those venues take time and effort. Great prices on supplies.

I have purchased lots of coins from J and M over the last 6 years and have had no problem .They were good to work with especially when Canada Post lost one of my orders worth about 5,000 .Eventually Canada Post (I hate dealing with Canada Post) found it at their facility in Vancouver all the while J and M did everything in their power to help track it down.I also Phone J and M for hard to get items that are not listed on their website and quite enjoy talking to the owner and have found him to be one of the best to deal with , which I cannot say about some other Canadian online coin shops.I used to live near the border and really miss shipping with usps.

Only dealt with Joe at shows and as noted his prices sometimes are overly optimistic but he does have some really cool stuff

About a week for my most recent order. But it is summer!

I have been dealing with J&M for about 5 years now. They have inventory that is hard to match, although Coins & Currency in Thornhill, Ont is probably close. I find the staff pleasant to deal with, especially once they got to know me, and generally the pricing is fair, if on the high end. They generally base their list prices on 90% of Trends.

I always deal face to face, since I live in Vancouver, so I have no input on shipping etc. Joe must have a million stories to tell having been in the business for so long. I often wonder what the personal collections of shop owners like Joe would be like - if they still collect.

Maybe a couple of times over the years I've been dis-satisfied with part of a particular purchase, and they always honour their return policy.

Keep in mind dealers in general will tend to grade low when purchasing coins, and grade high when selling. I find them responsive to feedback and open to discussion though.

So guys I bought a small batch of coins to test the waters with JM. Seeing how the order process works, price point, grade of the coins ordered, timeline etc etc. Overall I'm pretty satisfied with them. It seems it took them about five days to put the money through credit card so I guess it took them that long to put together the order. It took a total of 18 days from day of order to arrival at my door. Price point was decent and they didn't call me so I guess there were no issues on their end. Only two things I could say that may have been improved would be

1. Send a confirmation that order has been put together and actually shipped out.

2) my order had "signature required" written all over it and yet it ended up just in my mailbox no signature required. Not sure how that happened. Maybe a ploy from JM to make people handling the order think that it's tracked? Not sure.

So overall good experience! Just thought I would update in case anyone old or new was wondering. Also, if someone in the area deals directly with joe, maybe pass on the suggestion. ;-)