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BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
on the first 2 pages.

And yet, the orders flow in...

Must be worth it though, with all the slabbing and flipping and profiting off this years coins

And only 2 weeks till '07!

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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I feel like I am reading CW's Letters to the Editor.
    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)
  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭
    My signature says it all. In business forever and no competition.image

    Joe
    The Philadelphia Mint: making coins since 1792. We make money by making money. Now in our 225th year thanks to no competition. image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,513 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Being studious is important in the scope of collecting.
    Watch carefully for lots of nice material online during FUN and the following weeks on ebay. (OLDER COINS)
    People are in this FRENZY and selling off like there is no tomorrow. Others are saying BUY this , buy that !.

    Coins are a crap shoot when you don't know what to do.

    1) Get a Red Book
    2) Familiarize Self
    3) Ask lots of questions
    4) hook up with other coin geeks
    5) upgrade no matter what series you collect (always go for the better grade as you build)
    6) DO NOT THINK that just cuz the mint sells it it's going to go up in value.

    There are so many more things and so many more variables with coins,
    and to just buy from the mint is like just going to the casino. Be careful with your spending.
  • All worth it? I don't know. I am tempted to cancel all future orders with the mint just for the hassles I have had the last 2 weeks trying to get my 10 SAE sets from them. Been through it all and honestly its not worth the trouble. I have spent at least 6 hours of my free time on the phone with the last week only to have my order put on hold 5 times and back onto process 5 times. They finally gave in and told me I will receive them but no coins yet.

    Just my thoughts!
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The production levels for the Mints products have

    been so low, as to have been a gift that happens once

    a decade. With all of the problems, for most of us, we have

    received lovely coins, reasonable well packed and have made nice

    paper profits. I really see no major complaints with the Mint this year.

    They do tend to obfuscate facts and seem confused at times, but this year,

    they did deliver the goods.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,724 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>on the first 2 pages.

    And yet, the orders flow in.... >>



    Yea. You would think they had a monopoly.





    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    When you're getting in line to buy $1000 items you can quickly flip for $3000 and no alternative source exists, how many people are going to say "Your service sucks so I'm taking my business elsewhere?"
  • <<Been through it all and honestly its not worth the trouble. I have spent at least 6 hours of my free time on the phone with the last week only to have my order put on hold 5 times and back onto process 5 times.>>

    What kind of job do you have that $250 an hour is not worth the hassle?

    ($1500 or so profit on an unopened 10-set box / 6 hours = $250 per hour)
    I heard they were making a French version of Medal of Honor. I wonder how many hotkeys it'll have for "surrender."

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