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Re: SEGS Submissions

A guy in my coin club sends stuff to NTC.

Cougar1978

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Re: SEGS Submissions

@Married2Coins said:

@OldeTowneCoinShoppe said:

@Project Numismatics said:

@OldeTowneCoinShoppe said:
I am considering a significant SEGS submission, actually. "Grade" for the coins are of practically no interest to me - these are simply very difficult coins to attribute.

So why not ANACS? Common choice for that situation.

SEGS attributes a far wider range of obscure coins than does ANACS - or at least they used to. And again, I really do not care about "grade" with regard to the items I want to have attributed and encapsulated. In fact, one question I will pose is whether they can merely state "genuine" and not grade my items at all.

I'm curious. What exactly is a difficult coin to attribute, an AG Colonial copper or a VG 1880-S Morgan dollar? If you tell use what you have, some member may be able to guide you because of their past experience.

These are rare and very obscure Asian world coins. I have had success posting some and getting very few responses, but I'd like to "KNOW" correct attribution.

OldeTowneCoinShoppe

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Re: SEGS Submissions

I don’t think there’s any argument that would convince me that a SEGS submission would be anything other than a waste of money.

Are these varieties that you could get attributed by @messydesk with VSS stickers? Even if they attribute the coins correctly, would anyone trust it or pay more than if it were raw? For me, there’s no difference between SEGS, or a self-slab you bought on Amazon and wrote the variety on the insert.

PeakRarities

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Re: Buyer beware when dealing w/ Superior Galleries!

Well this has to be a first, a thread in which I agree with both Russ and wondercoin. It is a miracle.

Let me remind the folks here that there are memebers here who sell coins on Ebay and at the same time haul them off to shows to sell and do end up selling them at a show and canceling their ebay listing regardless of whether there are bids or not.

I don't so business with Superior for my own reasons, but this is the proverbial mountain out of a molehill. As one of the old coots here, anytime I get any sort of correspondence with attorney at law attached or threatened to be sued I get a smile on my face and think to myself bring it on.

IrishMike

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Re: Who are you?

Great thread👍

crazyhounddog

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Re: Buyer beware when dealing w/ Superior Galleries!

Superior made a mistake and tried to make it right within reasonalbe limits. Since there is a full refund that should be it. Did you honestly think they were going to loose $350 to make you happy on one sale, take a reality check. And the $500 price is far too much for that coin and you know it. Superior did not lose a customer, they lost a headache. They don't need customers who make a federal case out of a simple mistake. Suing is another joke, what venue are you going to use, one in your home state, California where Superior is located or Utah where ebay now resides. And suing over a mistake is why the legal profession has such a bad reputation.

WANNABEDEALER

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Re: Your most valuable cards

I think these are my most $$

Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05)

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Re: Gastineau's confrontation with Favre

Al Baker holds the single season sacks record with 23 in 1978.

coolstanley

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Re: Buyer beware when dealing w/ Superior Galleries!

A few months ago, I placed a bid over the internet on behalf of my client, on a coin offered by a major, well respected auctioneer.

The five figure coin was awarded to someone else for several hundred dollars below my bid, due to a programming snafu.

This is what I did about it:

1) I immediately contacted my client to let him know there was a problem.

2) I immediately contacted the auction company (face to face) and made them aware of the situation.

3) I asked them to get the coin for me if at all possible under the circumstances.

It turned out that another dealer had won the lot for his/her client and already informed the client of the purchase. The dealer was nice enough to see if his/her client would relinquish the rights to the coin, but the client refused.

At that point, realistically, there was nothing to do as far as I was concerned. My client was understandably disappointed, as was I, and I was out a nice commission too. However, I didn't yell at or threaten the auction house that had made an HONEST mistake. I asked nothing of them - they had already tried to remedy the situation. By the way, they were going to pay the consignor the extra $ the lot would have brought, had my bid been executed.

Sometimes it's really ok to be understanding and forgiving of human errors, depending upon the nature of those errors, of course.

coinguy1

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Re: Any Information on SEGS grading? - Looking For Larry Briggs!

@OAKSTAR said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@InGodWeTrustCoins said:
They have not charged the card. I am more worried about the missing 1909-S VDBs.

@jmlanzaf No, I am not sure they are in business but I would think they would remove their website.

Not necessarily. As long as their hosting service is paid for, it will remain unless someone takes it down. Your experience as well as @OAKSTAR suggests they are not

And their PO Box? If it's still active, are they still in business?

Depends on how long it was paid up. Do we know if any mail was collected. You tried to call them, didn't you?

jmlanzaf

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