Few comments on Coin Vault

drjules

I just have to share a few of the comments my wife came out with a few nights ago while I "channel surfed" over to coin vault

"Why would anybody buy those, they are all the same and I have a few in my purse at the moment" - about the new certified dollars bills listed at $189.99

"I'd rather watch The Knife Show"

Dr J

Cam40

meanwhile over at the knife forum,
`wow, you see those over-blown prices on that mock samari sword?
`that makes me sick!!, i,d rather watch the coin vault!!`

Cam40

seriously, most if not all coin collectors know, or will find out fast enough,
those circus barkers on the tv that sell coins tend (intend) to not give you
a good idea of what they sell. SO much mis-information is given that they
border on fraud. but ofcourse you know they are slick about it all and
probably have their scripts pre-read by thier legal staff to make sure
the wording is just so to be in that gray area and not too black and white.
they look for that area of`it may not be ethical, but it isnt illegal`to work in
obviously.

dimples

I rather watch the "little giant" info commercial.

TerrapinWill

I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Coin Vault, and before you freak out, let me explain. A few years ago, I was channel surfing and caught the Coin Vault. I watched for a while, to look at the coins. I didnt pay attention to the prices, just watched to coins. I quickly discovered that I was impressed by shinny things...no that I like coins. That is what launched me into looking, asking, reading, buying...collecting....

of course they are the scum of the earth, but had I not caught that show, maybe I wouldnt have grown so fond of coins.......

Steve

People watch the "Coin Vault" because they are into coins. Don't knock it. Just be glad there is a regular show on television all about coins that you can watch. Enjoy the show. DON'T BUY THE COINS ADVERTISED ON THE SHOW. PERIOD. Steve

hedgehog847

The first coin I bought when I got back into coin collecting about a year ago was an impulse buy I made on Shop At Home or Coin Vault or something. I paid over $100 for a 1921 Morgan that was worth $25!!! As soon as I got it, I sped back to the Post Office and returned it! It cost me about $12 to learn that lesson, but even at the early stage of learning I was in, I had the foresight to know that I had been ripped off big time (my wife laughed). I then set up an account on ebay and began to buy my slabbed stuff off of there!

Outhaul

Watch the coin vault?!?!



I'd rather listen to Enya or stick pins through my eardrums...which is pretty much the same thing...

CoinHusker

<< <i>I rather watch the "little giant" info commercial. >>




Hey, I like that commercial!

TerrapinWill

I find the show to be entertaining, in the same way I find celebrity poker shows entertaining. I enjoy both coins and poker, but am not terribly impressed with the participants playing skills. I like coins, and anyshow that centerpieces coins is interesting to me. I just turn the sound down.........

Prethen

The Coin Vault actually has some entertainment value not to mention how much it can artificially inflate how valuable you think your collection is. I often joke with my wife while watching the show and say....."Okay, that's it! Whatever they show next, I'm buying it!" Heck, if I actually did that for every time I said that, I'd own so much worthless crap and have a second and third mortgage on my house.

dimples

I would enjoy it if they wouldn't spend a half hour on the same sale.It always amazes me how they can rehash the product a hundred different ways hopefully brainwashing you to buy it.

The coins do look nice & shiney though

Prethen

I'm super curious as to know how many they sell of each item (like other shopping channels show). Ya know...how many suckers are out there?

Murphy

How many coin shows are onTV anyhow? People are gonna watch it and people are gonna hate it cause there's nothing better. Crap!

wvinchic

I catch the Coin Vault every once in a while. I have never bought anything and intend to NEVER buy anything from them. I saw them "open" a huge ass (<----- can I say that here?) box of mint sets from the 50's or 60's. I think it was the 50's. One of the obnoxious guys ripped open one of the sets then proceeded to flop them around on their table. I then saw him take out a bunch of raw morgans from a tube and handled them all with his fingers then clinked them all over the stupid table. Each coin this guy could get his hand on, actually got his hands on em!!!! My husband wanted me to turn it off 'cause I kept cussing at the tv. I had some nice names for them!!!

These are supposed to be the really knowledgable great coin guys and they get their sticky fingerprints all over these coins and clink em together and drop them on the table!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've only been collecting coins for less than a year and I use cotton gloves when I handle my coins!


Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!


Stacy

CardsFan

I've noticed the fingerprint thing too. Makes me cringe almost as much as hearing the guy's voice. What I hate is that for some reason that station's volume is so much louder then the other stations. Make's it impossible to flip back and forth between that and any other show because I get blown away.

gyocomgd

I heard them say last night that they had sold in the neighborhood of 1,500 sets of NGC MS69 Silver Eagles, 1986-'05, since the 05 came out.
The program is riveting stuff, a car wreck in slow motion. It has a way of making me ponder not the coins, but the two guys hawking them. I speculate that (a) Off camera, the two guys hate each other; (b) They each own three suits; (c) Paul's partner, the guy with the fake tan, will utter at least once per evening the exact phrase, "I'll tell yuh what, I flat gair-uhn-tee you will not find such incredible val-you and qual-it-tee at these price points....well, anywhere." (d) Their salaries are in the neighborhood of $85,000 a year; (e) They eat fast-food burgers at their meal break (f) Neither personally owns a coin minted prior to 1965 except Paul's partner, who has a roll of 1921 MS60 Morgans in his dresser drawer at home; (g) One or both has failed in a prior career and this is their last chance.

slothman2000

You have to love them....Where's Julie?????