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What does the Mint think of us?

BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
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Coin collectors / numismatists? Do they think we are just a bunch of crazy wackos? Any inside stories out there?
Tom

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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They think we have too much money to spend & that no matter how bad customer service is we'll keep coming back.
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    HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭
    I believe they see us as cash cows. Nothing more, nothing less.
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    TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,111 ✭✭✭
    A source for their income...............

    TorinoCobra71

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    carlcarl Posts: 2,054 ✭
    Someone to buy anything they make so they can support their own hobbies. They go home each day laughing at us dummies.
    Carl
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    MoneyCollectorMoneyCollector Posts: 454 ✭✭✭
    I'm sure they don't respect us - I feel used!
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    2bucks2bucks Posts: 636 ✭✭✭
    They don't think... that's the problem. They don't have to. Can you say MONOPOLY.
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    BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    Well, regarding the monopoly comment, we can all stop buying. But then I guess the dealers will have a field day.

    What happened to the good old days when the mint would make fantasy pieces just for collectors?

    My view is yeah, the mint is making a fortune off of us with so many design changes and customer service is spotty at best. But at least they are trying interesting things and soliciting input from the numismatic community.
    Tom

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    relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    They think that if they throw 4 coins in a box and sell it for $19.95, people will gobble 'em up.

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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What does the Mint think of us?

    ...like a many cogged machine for turning coins into real money. image

    Seriously though, they have been paying more attention to their customers for ten years
    now. Phillip Diehl started the process and it seems to be ongoing. Their greatest problems
    now days is their refusal to provide products for which there is little profit and their inability
    to make further gains in quality.

    There are likely to be more improvements but then they may become victims of their own
    success as they churn out an endless array of products and ruin the market.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Someone to buy anything they make so they can support their own hobbies. They go home each day laughing at us dummies. >>





    << <i>They think we have too much money to spend >>





    << <i>I believe they see us as cash cows. Nothing more, nothing less. >>





    << <i>A source for their income............... >>





    << <i>I'm sure they don't respect us - I feel used! >>




    Insightful comments. But I'm confused, wasn't the question about the US Mints opinions of collectors. Why is everyone responding as if the question was about Coin Dealers opinions about Collectors?

    Ummm....OK....nevermind.
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    coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    What does the Mint think of us?


    You really care? I don't.
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    RayJayRayJay Posts: 190
    They think "STUPID!" No matter how bad the quality and or service, they will still line up to give us their money.
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    garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    They think of us as their job security
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    DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    They think of us just the same as our elected officials do.

    We are nothing more than revenue enhancers.

    Sad, but true.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
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    LastExitInNYLastExitInNY Posts: 600 ✭
    I have to admit that the hobby was reborn when I went to the mint site and saw alot that caught my eye. The Marines coin, Silver Eagle and a roll of Sacs were my first purchases and I got everything pretty fast. The Marines coin was delivered in less than a month. I hope they think I am still all new customer so they keep up the fast shipping image
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    michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    What does the Mint think of us?

    low self esteem idiots who are gluttons for punishments and like to get the ramrod up the wazoo
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    ArtistArtist Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭
    While it may be a little off the subject, something I find ironic, is that the mint seems very concerned about quality control so as to severly restrict the release of truly rare and collectible coins, (i.e. double dies, mules, and the occasional exra leaf,) from reaching the marketplace - yet by doing so, they create great demand for these types of coins when they do get out.
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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just had to get to triple digits tonight, so I'll weigh in hereimage

    What does the Mint think of us?

    One heckuva lot more now than in the multiple instances that they were in fear that coin collectors would cause a shortage of change for the use of the masses.

    And they must have HATED us when they put out the "Special Mint Sets"... anything but special.

    "Bad money drives good money out of circulation" - Gresham's law

    "Bad chicken always make me sick" - Ego's law

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    MS70ORBUSTMS70ORBUST Posts: 395
    We are $$$$$$$$$$$$ to them, nothing else.
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,957 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>But at least they are..........soliciting input from the numismatic community. >>



    Too bad they don't use any of it.
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    HootHoot Posts: 867 ✭


    << <i>Coin collectors / numismatists? Do they think we are just a bunch of crazy wackos? Any inside stories out there? >>



    Suckers!

    Well, maybe not. They depend too much on collectors to place them among the top businesses in the nation. But it's only an image thing. I think that the Mint could care less about true quality in numismatics.

    Hoot
    From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. - Whitman
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    OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What does the Mint think of us? >>


    Lambs to the slaughter...image

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