Littleton coins ????? good or bad..............
jp
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I see littleton coins with ads like SAE for $7.25 limit 5 and free shipping.
Seems like a fair price and you get free shipping!
Is this place ok to order from or not?
Here they are online:
http://www.littletoncoin.com/
Seems like a fair price and you get free shipping!
Is this place ok to order from or not?
Here they are online:
http://www.littletoncoin.com/
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Russ, NCNE
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Not only will they sell your name and address to every scam and scum in the world, they'll be sending you increasing lots of seriously overgraded coins at very high prices. Even if you don't buy them, you'll be into them for the postage to send them back. That will make them madder and they'll sell your name to even more scum!
If you can't find a decent seller on eBay to buy coins from, try checking your local dealer(s). You might pay a dollar or two more but you will still come out cheaper than the overpriced postage the Littleton will include in any of your shipments. Dave
... and that's a solid advice!
They've been doing it since at least the 1970's, 'cause my first Indian cents as a newbie collector in early '77 came from them. They aim at noncollectors and the general public, and you usually won't see their ads in numismatic publications, but rather in other mass-market venues. Their catalogs are slick and nicely done, with lots of info. But, oh... the prices!
Take 'em up on the introductory offer, if you like, and don't mind junk mail. Heck, those slick catalogs make good reading in the outhouse, and if you run out of TP, well, then...
Beware the bottom line.
I do understand that their buy prices are competitive. If they can sell tons of stuff at 400% of sane market prices, I guess they can afford slick catalogs and competitive buying prices.
<< <i>They've been doing it since at least the 1970's >>
Even earlier than that. I was ordering stamps, (yes, I used to be a stamp guy), in the '60s from their ads in the back of comic books.
Russ, NCNE
I'm going to stay away from them.
Thanks,
littleton never promotes the investment or making money side! they have to pay their big staff and overhead and all the packaging and catalogues they send!!!! they to me promote the hobby and i am sure havemade many new collectors that go onto support the hobby and buy great coins!
but waht i respect about littleton they sell the romance and history of coins in great packaging they never say their coins are great deals but they get people involved with coins they spark an interest and i think they have done more for getting new people interested in the hobby the general public than the ANA!!!!!!!!!!
littleton has huge expenses to meet and they charge a big retail markup for simnple bread and butter coins in fancy holders along like i said before with history and romance
they never say that thier coins are great values or investments just something to have fun with and learn history
i mean once many get started i think they realize this and either move on to other things or become real coin collectors
i mean i would rather buy littletons stuff than lots of coins promoted as investment material i mean i just had a pm from a man on here that was shown a 30,000 coin at the long beach show in a major grading services holder that he was totally buried in as he bought the coin not the holder
i would rather spend 300 dollars over two years with littleton and learn something and get maybe 100 dollars worth of coins and gety some romance and history and get catalogues to look at entertainment wise and maybe move onto real coins with better values and it only cost me 200 for this fun i mean that is cheaper than two years of other hobbies!
then the former scenerio! and no i have never bought anything from littleton nor am i an employee or stockholder......lol or have any vested interest at all in them
sincerely michael
K S
Apparently someone here said a while back that if the coins are unsolicited, you can keep them without paying? Is that true? If it is I need a catalog
Jeremy
PS- Littleton has high prices because they buy coins at retail, not wholesale levels. Their into offers were a good deal and started me collecting... never bought anything else from them (except three of their albums I got at Borders)
<< <i>littleton never promotes the investment or making money side! they have to pay their big staff and overhead and all the packaging and catalogues they send!!!! they to me promote the hobby and i am sure havemade many new collectors that go onto support the hobby and buy great coins! >>
<< <i>they never say that thier coins are great values or investments just something to have fun with and learn history >>
These are good points, Michael. I, in addition to many collectors I know, started with Littleton. Their catalogs are informative and well-written and their coins are of good quality and well-packaged. There are certainly a lot of worse dealers out there. Many other dealers would try to sell worse coins at the same high prices, without the educational info and other Littleton strong points. Most of the Littleton coins I received in the 70's were gifts from parents and grandparents, so I wasn't the one paying the high prices, anyway.
In time, most of us learn to find better deals elsewhere, but one certainly can't fault Littleton for who they are and what they do. I recently said this to a friend at work, who has bought all his collection from them. I told him that at the very least, he probably has good quality material and has learned some of the history, even if he paid a bit too much.