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Why is Doug Winter Numismatics moving to Portland, OR?

LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
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I just noticed this in his website. I don't think it makes a difference to me, but every time he changes addresses, I have to do my Mission Impossible routine and sneak to the safe deposit box and update my "if I should keel over this is what to do with the coins" list. imageimage

Are there big fish in Portland as opposed to Tacoma, WA? I wouldn't think a physical location makes a difference from a business standpoint, but I was curious if Portland, OR is a hot bed for numismatics.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
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--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Nice city, although traffic can be bad.
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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    Why not ask Doug directly?
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  • CratonCraton Posts: 2,670
    Tacoma is a crap hole and Portland is a nice big beautiful city. He's probably moving there and just taking his bisiness with him.
    I'm going to Portland tonight and will stay untill tomorrow. Oregon rocks!
  • rgl1345rgl1345 Posts: 674
    Cause Washington sucks!!image
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207


    << <i>Tacoma is a crap hole and Portland is a nice big beautiful city. He's probably moving there and just taking his bisiness with him.
    I'm going to Portland tonight and will stay untill tomorrow. Oregon rocks! >>




    I will take Portland, Maine over Portland, Oregon and day! He should move here and I will trade him lobsters for coins.image
  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭
    I read somewhere that Portland has the highest density of strip club in the West Coast... Maybe that's why... image
    "The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
    Robert A. Heinlein
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He likes Portland better.

    As a national dealer, unless you live in Baltimore, the LA area, or Dallas, location is probably irrelevant. Moving to Portland might make his travel slightly more complex than if he were travelling from Seattle. Neither is a good location from which to regularly travel for business.
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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oregon has income tax vs B&O tax in Washington???
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  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭


    << <i>He likes Portland better.

    As a national dealer, unless you live in Baltimore, the LA area, or Dallas, location is probably irrelevant. >>

    Certainly, that is not true - I would guess that both San Francisco and LA have a critical mass of collectors that dwarfs Portland's or Seattle's, and the flights are much easier.

    I recon that there are plenty of other areas where those cities are much worse, but from apure business standpoint, I don't know...
    "The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would I have had you if I told you that there is rumored to be an undiscovered hoard of uncirculated New Orleans gold coins hidden in the northwestern Oregon area?
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Certainly, that is not true - I would guess that both San Francisco and LA have a critical mass of collectors that dwarfs Portland's or Seattle's, and the flights are much easier.

    When 95+ % of your customers live somewhere else, who cares? Frankly, if DW lived down the street from me, I would not buy more (or fewer) coins from him than I do now.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    When 95+ % of your customers live somewhere else, who cares? Frankly, if DW lived down the street from me, I would not buy more (or fewer) coins from him than I do now. >>



    Yeah, well shipping would be cheaper
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Certainly, that is not true - I would guess that both San Francisco and LA have a critical mass of collectors that dwarfs Portland's or Seattle's, and the flights are much easier.

    When 95+ % of your customers live somewhere else, who cares? Frankly, if DW lived down the street from me, I would not buy more (or fewer) coins from him than I do now. >>




    I am sure you would be running a lot more "errands" during lunch, though. image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle....."

    Dave
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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle....."

    Dave >>



    Really ?

    Ken
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. Twice last year alone.

    Dave
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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,317 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doug just likes Portland more than Washington....I believe had the cost of living been a non factor, he would have chosen a different West Coast city other than Portland however...

    I wish him the best and think the move will be pretty much transparent to everyone except Doug.

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  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    my guesstimate is that is where he bought his home a nicer home with a better value then the way overpriced real estate in greater seattle area
  • ABC123ABC123 Posts: 2,627
    Why not just ask Doug ? Forget the speculation !
  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The answer is quite obvious. Have you seen the design Washington selected for their quarter? It is a hodgepodge of mountain, fish, state outline. Of course the alternatives were worse - a cartoonish Orca whale and some other forgettable design. Can't blame Doug for leaving a state that embarrased his profession by designing such an embarrasing numismatic item. image (Portland - the Rose Capital of the Northwest)

    P.S. It also helps that Oregon has no sales tax!
  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We got it all here, rain, sun, mountains, ocean, volcanos, forests,

    deserts..etc, etc.

    Bring them all we like it!! No Sales Tax too!

    Anyone know where he is setting up shop??

    Tbig
  • HigashiyamaHigashiyama Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps he really likes pinot noir.
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  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is the view from Doug's front living room in Tacoma image No, it is the image for the new State Quarter that you will see next year.
  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Why? Maybe he knows the answer.image
  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    We welcome him here. Tacoma is like east LA compared to Portland, and that photo is not from Tacoma, suberb maybe but not Tacoma.
  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We welcome him here. Tacoma is like east LA compared to Portland, and that photo is not from Tacoma, suberb maybe but not Tacoma. >>



    Sorry, I got them mixed up this is the one from Tacoma. image
  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The answer is quite obvious. Have you seen the design Washington selected for their quarter? It is a hodgepodge of mountain, fish, state outline. Of course the alternatives were worse - a cartoonish Orca whale and some other forgettable design. Can't blame Doug for leaving a state that embarrased his profession by designing such an embarrasing numismatic item. >>



    The Washington State Quarter looks better that the Oregon Beach reverse that has no class. They designed the reverse from a picture someone took that has no originality what so ever. They did not even have the copyright to the picture and the USMINT had to pay the photograpfer off with money and some Oregon State Quarters. What a joke that was to uncover. Did Oregon get to vote on thier quarter? Washington did. Portland did have a nice A.N.A. show back in 2004 and that is all I have to say about that.image
  • cupronikcupronik Posts: 773 ✭✭✭
    Hey High Relief:

    I don't see the lone motorcyclist in the foreground in this picture. You remember. The guy in the
    1970's R-a-i-n N-e-e-r B-e-e-r commercial. Where the heck is he???
  • ReeceReece Posts: 378 ✭✭✭
    Where are those NewOrleans coins burried?
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  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey High Relief:

    I don't see the lone motorcyclist in the foreground in this picture. You remember. The guy in the
    1970's R-a-i-n N-e-e-r B-e-e-r commercial. Where the heck is he??? >>



    Good memory cupronik, I think he ran off the road and they took him in with a DWI. image
  • cupronikcupronik Posts: 773 ✭✭✭
    The pink hues in the photo of Mt. Rainier reminded me of the motorcyclist, etc. Great Photo!
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"The bluest skies you never seen are in Seattle....."

    Dave >>

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    my guesstimate is that is where he bought his home a nicer home with a better value then the way overpriced real estate in greater seattle area

    The real estate market in portland is out of control too....
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For personal reasons, DW decided to relocate to Portland. He likes the area. Nothing more to it than that.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DW must have read this post. He addressed the question in a recent newsletter:

    "On June 23rd, Douglas Winter Numismatics is moving to Portland, Oregon. We’ve been asked why we are moving to Portland instead of staying in the Seattle area and the answer is simple: it’s strictly a lifestyle choice. My wife and I love Portland. We love the fact that we can walk to great shops and restaurants and have access to superb culture and recreation. Portland isn't what I’d call a great coin town and it certainly is no easier for me to get to the east coast than before, but I think it’s going to be a great move for me and for DWN."
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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    "The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle....."
    image

    Mebbe so--but you have to be in an aircraft @ about 30,000ft above the clouds to see the sky
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>DW must have read this post. He addressed the question in a recent newsletter:

    "On June 23rd, Douglas Winter Numismatics is moving to Portland, Oregon. We’ve been asked why we are moving to Portland instead of staying in the Seattle area and the answer is simple: it’s strictly a lifestyle choice. My wife and I love Portland. We love the fact that we can walk to great shops and restaurants and have access to superb culture and recreation. Portland isn't what I’d call a great coin town and it certainly is no easier for me to get to the east coast than before, but I think it’s going to be a great move for me and for DWN." >>




    I thought he didn't monitor the boards. image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    The Washington State Quarter looks better that the Oregon Beach reverse that has no class. They designed the reverse from a picture someone took that has no originality what so ever. They did not even have the copyright to the picture and the USMINT had to pay the photograpfer off with money and some Oregon State Quarters. What a joke that was to uncover. Did Oregon get to vote on thier quarter? Washington did. Portland did have a nice A.N.A. show back in 2004 and that is all I have to say about that.image >>



    I'm sorry to say the you are quite thoroughly mastaken. the beach rev is on a nickel. The OR quarter has Crater lake on it.image
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  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>


    I'm sorry to say the you are quite thoroughly mastaken. the beach rev is on a nickel. The OR quarter has Crater lake on it.image >>




    Yes, and Crater Lake is unique to Oregon. What is so unique about a fish and a mountain that is shamed by Alaska's Mt. McKinley? Oh, OK, that outline of the state only matches Washington.
  • USCGCraigUSCGCraig Posts: 1,008 ✭✭
    Having been born and raised in Seattle, stationed in Seattle, stationed in Portland, OR and now stationed in Washington DC, I would live in either city in a heartbeat compared to this rathole. I do like Portlands downtown better however they don't have professional baseball or football (yes I know there is a minor league team with a downtown stadium). Rose Festival is an absolute blast. My Coast Guard Cutter wne there in 1990. The city welcomes you with open arms. Little did they know we made the long trip from Astoria, OR. Downtown Portland is also very clean. Traffic and housing are about the same. Quality of restaurants is the same. Same great seafood. Why have maine lobster when you can have Dungeness Crab? Not even close in comparison.

    Oh what I would trade to be back in the great Pacific Northwet er Northwest (not my XF45 Barber Half set though).
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  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hard to argue those points.
  • rgl1345rgl1345 Posts: 674


    << <i>

    << <i>The answer is quite obvious. Have you seen the design Washington selected for their quarter? It is a hodgepodge of mountain, fish, state outline. Of course the alternatives were worse - a cartoonish Orca whale and some other forgettable design. Can't blame Doug for leaving a state that embarrased his profession by designing such an embarrasing numismatic item. >>



    The Washington State Quarter looks better that the Oregon Beach reverse that has no class. They designed the reverse from a picture someone took that has no originality what so ever. They did not even have the copyright to the picture and the USMINT had to pay the photograpfer off with money and some Oregon State Quarters. What a joke that was to uncover. Did Oregon get to vote on thier quarter? Washington did. Portland did have a nice A.N.A. show back in 2004 and that is all I have to say about that.image >>



    BOY are you mixed up! NICKEL .....NICKELimage

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