Lack of Photos on the Stack's/ ANR Sale...

MFH

My heart thumped when I saw that another Stacks and ANR auction was about to commence. What a disappointment. Hardly any pictures on a link when I clicked on a few coins.

Get with it Stacks... WE WANT PHOTOS ... otherwise we won't bid.

What few photos you're posting are fine for what they are, but "....where's 'The Beef" ?..."

ColonialCoinUnion

Looks like they should be up on the ANR site (accessed through the home page, not the 'auction' section), yet the link ain't cuttin' it.

Maybe John Kraljevich of ANR can comment - or you can PM or email him. If you do a search and find one of his recent posts his email is listed I think.

MFH

I can't do their job for them...either get it right on the first try or don't bother trying ... they are the ones who are in the business ...GET WITH IT... post your pictues of auction lots or don't post your auctions. No-one has the time to deal with incompentency.

Why can't the more astute staff of ANR have their consignments certified before auctions...we all know Stack's usually auctions off raw coins... but... the subjectively graded coins Stacks offers is out of sync in today's collecting faterinity... --- don't get me started as to which grading service Stack's selects --- I would rather see everything graded by ANACS ( net grades, if need be ) than see these lots posted in raw state.

Hear me, ...I'm not degrading the staff of Stack's...just I am sick of the raw material being auctioned which hasn't been at least looked at my a "professional" staff of graders ( I don't want to get into "the term professional " ). An honest "unbiased" opinion is all I ask for. I don't want to discuss which TPG service is better than the other. I look at ANACS as an unbiased TPG. ( You are of course entitled to your own opinion. )

As there are between two or three major auctions being offered at any given time, but... who has the funds or the the time to deal with incompentecy in auction postings....?????

Barry

The photos were there when I looked, however, I'd never bid on a Stacks auction. Raw coins, site unseen - I don't think so!

ColonialCoinUnion

The crowd at any Stack's auction is about 95% dealers, 5% knowledgeable collectors.

The majority of those same coins Stack's is offering will be brushed, oiled and all fixed up, lodged in their shiny new NGC holders and placed in the next round of Heritage, Superior or Bowers auctions where collectors, perhaps including MFH, will now pay about about double the price they brought at Stack's.

I'm not sure who is incompetent in this scenario, if anyone, but I think thats open to debate.

cosmicdebris

I bid in one of Stack's mail bids. Never again!

BigE

CCU, any chance you could post before and after picks of a coin that has been camel hair brushed?----------------------BigE