And the instantaneous shipping award goes to... JJ Teaparty!

mirabela

You know how the Coyote would write off for something from the Acme catalog -- a bomb to blow up the Roadrunner, and anvil to drop on it, etc. -- and a moment later the truck would screech up to his mailbox and drop it off?

I talked to Gail Watson about a nice half dollar on Monday afternoon at about three o'clock. At eleven this morning it was in my PO box.

Unfrickinbelievable!

Cladiator

Gail rocks.

LanLord

I obviously need to get on her good side. I ordered 2 coins almost 2 weeks ago. They had my cashiers check for 3 days before shipping the coins and I still don't have them.

ziggy29

Very cool. It helps that you're so close to Boston, of course -- but even so, that's only another day or two to most of the rest of the country and that ain't bad.

Cladiator

Last coin I got from JJ took 3 days to arrive and that's from Boston to California.

mirabela

It's incredible, is what it is. Greensboro Bend, VT is in the middle of nowhere. Especially in winter, it can take longer than two days for mail to get here from towns only thirty miles away.

ziggy29

<< <i>It's incredible, is what it is. Greensboro Bend, VT is in the middle of nowhere. Especially in winter, it can take longer than two days for mail to get here from towns only thirty miles away. >>

Ah, so you're in the sticks. In that case it says as much for the USPS as it does for Teaparty.

mirabela

Well, yeah -- but it also means that she got the thing in the mail within an hour or two of talking to me. When's the last time I managed to ship something that quick? LOL

ziggy29

<< <i>Well, yeah -- but it also means that she got the thing in the mail within an hour or two of talking to me. When's the last time I managed to ship something that quick? LOL >>

I'm betting poe58 didn't ship to you that quickly!

hiyosilver

A board member here ,( DUIGUY ) had a nice 3 coin upgrade for my 7070. We agreed to a price and I mailed out a usps m.o. to him a couple of days later, when I returned from the P.O. and checked the mailbox......the coins had already been delivered!


Thanks Doug!

papabear

around here 7 to 9 days across town 3 days across country

ER

A lot of other dealers ship just as fast. It's believable.

mirabela

I should add -- the coin is nice. No pic yet, though. Whack! Out of slab, into album.

Fairlaneman

<< <i>It's incredible, is what it is. Greensboro Bend, VT is in the middle of nowhere. Especially in winter, it can take longer than two days for mail to get here from towns only thirty miles away. >>



Its hard to believe anywhere in VT is in the middle of nowhere. Its a tiny state. The middle of nowhere is south central and south eastern Oregon where you have to drive a 100 miles to find a beer. If they know you really want the beer, Watch Out !!!

Back to JJ. Only superb customer service has come from them. And I do live in the sticks....

Ken

Barndog

I ordered a coin Monday too. Let's see if it is waiting for me when I get home (Texas).

mirabela

<< <i>Its hard to believe anywhere in VT is in the middle of nowhere >>



Everywhere in Vermont is in the middle of nowhere! The capital city has only 8,000 people! I need to drive nearly an hour to get to a town of more than 3,000. None of it is remote, but it is nearly all rural.

I am glad to be home, but I sometimes wonder why I put this hobby on hold in the decade I spent in urban northern California.

AU58WALKERS

"I talked to Gail Watson about a nice half dollar on Monday afternoon at about three o'clock. At eleven this morning it was in my PO box.

Unfrickinbelievable"



<< <i>I obviously need to get on her good side. I ordered 2 coins almost 2 weeks ago. They had my cashiers check for 3 days before shipping the coins and I still don't have them. >>




Just one "AHH SCHIT" can wipe out a bunch of "ATTA BOYS"

Fairlaneman

3000 thats huge in the area I was talking about. After leaving Bend and heading east in Oregon there are no towns that big untill you hit Idaho. One hour is nothing... The state capital does have about 125,000 but that includes the inmates that are housed in the two prisons there. Real population ?

Ken

mirabela

Well, yeah, OK, wide open spaces and all that, you win.

There's a corner of Vermont about two hours north & east of here that actually reminds me quite a lot of parts of Idaho. Canaan & Beecher Falls -- now that's yechupitz as my grandfather would have put it. Believe it or not, there's a coin dealer who lives up there -- I forget his name, but he sets up at the Massachussets & NH shows.

ziggy29

<< <i>I am glad to be home, but I sometimes wonder why I put this hobby on hold in the decade I spent in urban northern California. >>

Probably because it's so damn expensive to live there that there was no money left for coins?

airplanenut

I bet I could get mail from them overnight

mirabela

<< <i>Probably because it's so damn expensive to live there that there was no money left for coins? >>




I knew there was a reason. I guess I've blocked out what it felt like to send of 2/3 of my take-home to my mortgage company.

chabot510

<< <i>I bet I could get mail from them overnight >>



i dont know about that one jeremy, campus mail is slooooooooooow

robertpr

<< <i>You know how the Coyote would write off for something from the Acme catalog -- a bomb to blow up the Roadrunner, and anvil to drop on it, etc. -- and a moment later the truck would screech up to his mailbox and drop it off? >>



Do I ever! If the quality of their products was as good as their customer service, they'd be golden!

konsole

is Gail your neighbor?

might explain it

mirabela

The newp:


A little scritchy on the right obverse field for the grade NGC gave it , but I just love the reverse. Dusty, original, colorful but not pushy about it. My kind of coin -- nothing anyone will slice anyone else's throat to get, but nice. Went into my book reverse forwards.

ziggy29

<< <i>A little scritchy on the right obverse field for the grade NGC gave it... >>

50? 53 maybe?

mirabela

I like it as a 50. NGC called it a 55. The luster is there to justify it I suppose, or maybe they give it a bump for being pretty. Who knows. Anyway, having owned several of these over the years & never having really loved any of them -- and having done more looking for one I like than I ever expected I would have to -- I find this one pleasant & deemed it a keeper.