$2,995 for a ½oz. of modern gold?

dcarr

@NJCoin said:

@dcarr said:

@NJCoin said:

@dcarr said:
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So my mintages were generally low. Something marketed on TV will likely have a higher mintage.

EXACTLY. You didn't make 500, from new gold, and sell them for 3x spot. That's the difference between you and them, and why your creations have actual collector value.

I do notice, though, that there IS a guy on satellite TV Saturday nights who routinely misrepresents items you clearly made on contract for someone. The prices aren't crazy, but he claims they are rare US mint patterns when they are not. I guess there is nothing you can do since the items are out of your hands, but it does nothing for you or your reputation, so you might want to be more careful about who you do business with, since these ARE Dan Carr items being (mis)marketed on TV.

I believe I know who that is, but I've never seen the show.
If there is a video somewhere of them misrepresenting one of the items, I would certainly watch it.

I'll see if I can dig one up. It's a cheesy, low-def show that seems to be the same thing every week late Saturday night on Dish Network. I'll see if I can find anything on the web. It's clearly your stuff because you can see the "DC" on the labels. I'm sure the people they are selling to have no idea who you are. And, again, they are not marketed as DC overstrikes. They are sold as concept coins or patterns.

Edit -- there are no videos of the shows online, and the website now correctly identifies the two coins they are showing as overstrikes, so it is entirely possible that someone already pointed out the error in the marketing and they fixed it. If they happen to show the coins on TV with the misleading marketing, I'll send you a DM, with the name of the marketer in case you are unaware.

I have never dealt with them directly. The entity that contracts me to make certain things apparently has a deal with them and so some of the items I make end up over there on TV. I previously heard reports that items were being represented on TV as "official patterns" or similar. I mentioned my concerns about that to my contact and those concerns were relayed to the TV people. So I think they have stopped using incorrect terminology on TV, but I want to know if there are any further incidents.

NJCoin

@dcarr said:

@NJCoin said:

@dcarr said:

@NJCoin said:

@dcarr said:
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So my mintages were generally low. Something marketed on TV will likely have a higher mintage.

EXACTLY. You didn't make 500, from new gold, and sell them for 3x spot. That's the difference between you and them, and why your creations have actual collector value.

I do notice, though, that there IS a guy on satellite TV Saturday nights who routinely misrepresents items you clearly made on contract for someone. The prices aren't crazy, but he claims they are rare US mint patterns when they are not. I guess there is nothing you can do since the items are out of your hands, but it does nothing for you or your reputation, so you might want to be more careful about who you do business with, since these ARE Dan Carr items being (mis)marketed on TV.

I believe I know who that is, but I've never seen the show.
If there is a video somewhere of them misrepresenting one of the items, I would certainly watch it.

I'll see if I can dig one up. It's a cheesy, low-def show that seems to be the same thing every week late Saturday night on Dish Network. I'll see if I can find anything on the web. It's clearly your stuff because you can see the "DC" on the labels. I'm sure the people they are selling to have no idea who you are. And, again, they are not marketed as DC overstrikes. They are sold as concept coins or patterns.

Edit -- there are no videos of the shows online, and the website now correctly identifies the two coins they are showing as overstrikes, so it is entirely possible that someone already pointed out the error in the marketing and they fixed it. If they happen to show the coins on TV with the misleading marketing, I'll send you a DM, with the name of the marketer in case you are unaware.

I have never dealt with them directly. The entity that contacts me to make certain things apparently has a deal with them and so some of the items I make end up over there on TV. I previously heard reports that items were being represented on TV as "official patterns" or similar. I mentioned my concerns about that to my contact and those concerns were relayed to the TV people. So I think they have stopped using incorrect terminology on TV, but I want to know if there are any further incidents.

I'll definitely let you know if I see it. As I said, they seem to have cleaned it up on their website.

ElmerFusterpuck

As soon as I saw it was from GovMint, I just farted and looked away. I've seen their overpriced nonsense online and in print.