Adding coins to registry sets before they arrive in the mail?

leothelyon

lol...What's that all about? Is this,'buying the coin and not the plastic?

Leo

Russ

It can always be removed with the click of a button if the coin arrives and is not acceptable.

Russ, NCNE

ClarkOfKent

I do it all the time.

Anybody got a problem with that?

LucyBop

<< <i>Anybody got a problem with that? >>



and praytell, which is your registry set?????

Russ

<< <i>and praytell, which is your registry set????? >>



Lucy,

Just look for the one where about half the coins are ex-Russ.

Russ, NCNE

Placid

I have some sets in the top 5 of all time.

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ClarkOfKent

<< <i>Just look for the one where about half the coins are ex-Russ. >>



Not anymore. I got rid of all my overgraded, overdipped, hazed & hairlined coins and replaced them with nice examples.

LucyBop

oh oh, a fight between the Kennedy heads!

Steve27

With the Registry you're buying neither the coin nor the slab, just a bunch of numbers.

LucyBop

<< <i>just a bunch of numbers. >>



then I love buying numbers.... ms66fbl, ms67fb, ms67fs....ahhhhhhh....... gotta buy more...

Placid

<< <i>With the Registry you're buying neither the coin nor the slab, just a bunch of numbers. >>



Sorry I bought the coins first then put them in the registry when I was bored.

Russ

Placid,

Neglected series are great.

Russ, NCNE

ClarkOfKent

<< <i> With the Registry you're buying neither the coin nor the slab, just a bunch of numbers. >>


The registry's free. I own the coins and the slabs they're in.

What's your point?

prooflike

There are some people (like me) who use the registry as an organizer. These people (like me) have already succumbed to the idea that they'll never have a competitve registry set. The registry makes an excellent depository for organization and pics.

What does it matter whether or not somebody enters a coin before they have it in hand?

Russ

<< <i>These people (like me) have already succumbed to the idea that they'll never have a competitve registry set. >>



Prooflike,

Come on over to Two Cent Pieces. Nobody likes them, so it's easy to make the top five! Wait a minute! On second thought, stay away!

Russ, NCNE

prooflike

Russ,

You may have something here... all of a sudden I have this interest in 2-centers....

Placid

Hehe All mine are single coins and one is a vf-30.

nwcs

<< <i>lol...What's that all about? Is this,'buying the coin and not the plastic?

Leo >>

Why not? When I bought my 1908 NM $20, I put it in the registry before I got it. Doesn't mean I didn't love the coin, but I was excited about it and wanted to update my registry sooner than later. What would be the difference if I waited a week for the coin to arrive if I didn't have to?

Fairlaneman

Sold a coin this morning. He paid for it. Its his coin now and he can do whatever he wants with the thing. Conversely that is how I think after paying for a coin. Its mine period. If the Mail loses it do just as Russ said and click the button, Poof its gone.

Ken

leothelyon

What does it matter whether or not somebody enters a coin before they have it in hand?

I don't know too much about the other series but for what I collect, I end up returning about 90% of the stuff that comes in the mail so to me it would be a waste of time. I like Prooflike's idea about keeping organized. Seeing how many registry sets in a series are only hundreds of a percent apart, would it be unethical to bump a guy with such tactics, before seeing the coin?

Leo

K6AZ

<< <i>I don't know too much about the other series but for what I collect, I end up returning about 90% of the stuff that comes in the mail so to me it would be a waste of time. I like Prooflike's idea about keeping organized. Seeing how many registry sets in a series are only hundreds of a percent apart, would it be unethical to bump a guy with such tactics, before seeing the coin? >>



Wow, what do you buy, raw coins? If you return that percentage of PCGS or NGC coins, I hope the sellers agree that you are basically buying on approval.

As far as I am concerned with my registry set, as soon as I pay for a coin and the seller receives payment the title to the coin is mine, and to do with as I please. I don't buy coins without good images, and have only returned four out of about 500 in the last couple of years. I add a coin to my set once I know the seller has received payment.

MacCoin

if they cashed the check or took the paypal the coin is yours no matter where it is. register it!

relayer

Placid - that's a pretty impressive 1/2 cent collection.

Bear

All of a sudden, everyone wants to put their two cents in.

leothelyon

Wow, what do you buy, raw coins? If you return that percentage of PCGS or NGC coins, I hope the sellers agree that you are basically buying on approval.

Hi K6AZ
It's something like that but they still want me to pay before they can send coin. I don't buy anything without a return policy, I insist (like porky-pig) because I'm a very, very picky-ass collector.
I do like thinking that I know what quality of coin I'm after.

Leo

K6AZ

What series do you collect? I collect Morgans, and by sticking mainly to some sellers I know, and making sure they have good images before I buy, I have managed to keep my returns down to 4 out of about 500 coins I have bought in the last few years. There are a lot of dogs on eBay, but I can usually spot them since they are the ones with bad or no pictures.

fcloud

Wow, I though I was picky, I send back only a handfull each year...

And, I do enter the coin before I receive it in my hand, and if it is lost, or I don't like it I remove it. It does belong to me after I paid for it doesn't it? If I bump someone after I pay or two days later when the coin shows up in the PO Box, don't I still bump them?

leothelyon

K6AZ
I collect FS Jeffersons....maybe that's why........high grade, fully struck, carbon spot free and full step nickels are hard to find. Zoom back 125 years, the same could probably be said about the Morgon dollars, especially the strikes. I know, with the Peace dollars, they're tough to locate with defined hair detail above the ear. I also don't like distracting marks in the focal areas of the coin, the cheek, fields and steps.
The grade numbers are only a ball park area to help me locate a quality coin. Someone may have graded it a MS64. 65, 66 or 67, doesn't matter, a quality coin can exist in any of those grades. I have a few morgans and peace dollars, I don't buy them if they have distracting problems in any grade.

It does belong to me after I paid for it doesn't it?

fcloud
Only after you can say, "this is the kind of coin I was expecting to get. It certainly does help to know your dealer but be prepared to take some driftwood coins with the good. A lot of dealers will work with you that way as long as you work with them.

Leo

Blade

I almost always enter the coin immediately after purchase. Agree with the previous threads... at that point it is mine, and if it is returned I pull it off. But I am in the big Daddy All US Type registry with a laughable budget, so I am not even in the Top 20 yet. But if I was #2 and putting a coin in advance of receipt, and it bumps me to #1, I still believe is fair game.

PTVETTER

I buy raw and try to make it in a PCGS slab.. and for me I normally wait untill I get the coin back from PCGS to post it. That's just me, there is nothing with posting sooner. When I get the grades online I post letting other mercury dime set owners that with in a few days I just may move up. Friendly fun with mercury dime set owners.

leothelyon

But if I was #2 and putting a coin in advance of receipt, and it bumps me to #1, I still believe is fair game.

Blade
Aside from that, a #2,3,4 set could easily be the better set then #1 when only separated by less then
a half point. There should be more top honor sets when they're that close together in the standing. The #1 set should have at least a one point spread ahead of the others to take top honors alone.

Leo

Dog97

leothelyon you're the reason one of my dealers puts this in his eBay descriptions!
<<Unfortunately, due to many cherrypickers in the hobby I have to impose a 5% restocking fee on all certified coins.>>

And if you had seen the coin you would realize that I must not be a cherypicker nor like decent coins because this was a butt ugly, one of the most hideous Morgans I ever saw. I bought it because I felt sorry for it. You see I run a Halfway House for abused Morgans where they are treated with love & care.

Anyway I used to enter coins before I got them when I did the Reg Rat Race because I usually entered all my coins on the weekend when I had time so I entered them whether I had them in hand or not. One time I asked the seller for the cert # because he didn't show the whole slab and I said whoa I'm getting waaay to serious about this.

mdwoods

I do it all the time. Like Russ says, it can easily be taken out. I have even done it with coins I am not bidding on just to see if I think the increase in my set rating is worth (in my mind) it. I just don't validate the set. mdwoods

leothelyon

leothelyon you're the reason one of my dealers puts this in his eBay descriptions! <<Unfortunately, due to many cherrypickers in the hobby I have to impose a 5% restocking fee on all certified coins.>>

If a seller fails to mention or include it in the auction description about a staple scratch, carbon spotting, scuff marks...whatever you don't like on a coin then the coin is going back. For a future sale of such a coin, I would be compelled to tell the truth about that coin, taking a loss.....that's not going to happen.
On the otherhand, if the coin is close to the given grade and I know I can recover with it, then I'll hold onto it.....almost like buying bad stock.....who wants to get stuck with it. If I decide to send back I will
pay all shipping cost and add $5-$10 to the return, usually something gets lost in the communication part of the transaction and I sometimes take the blame for it. But I don't buy anything I don't like. At a coin show bourse table....I'll look at a coin.....if it's not something I'm searching for then I'll hand the coin back and say thank you, i'm not interested and move to another table...there are no costs in that...and it shouldn't be that way through the mail.

Leo