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ANACS-anyone else get this email???

ANACS has recently been sold by Anderson Press Incorporated to Driving Force, LLC, of Colorado, owned by James Taylor. The purchase was effective December 21, 2007 and the company is being relocated to suburban Denver, Colorado.

The office is currently closed for the holidays to allow time for the move.

Customers that had submissions at the Austin location please rest assured that they are being handled in the safest and most professional of manners as they are transported by armored service to the new office.

Business will resume and submissions will begin to ship out January 2, 2008. If there are any questions please don't hesitate to contact Mr. Taylor at: James.Taylor@ANACS.com

The new ANACS office will be located at:

6555 S. Kenton St, Suite 303
Englewood, CO 80112
1-800-888-1861
www.ANACS.com

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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    I received the same email.
    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
    Collecting:
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    19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
  • Matters not to me.

    Their first set of changes pretty much drove me away.

    Now that I see how they treat their employees, I'm finished with them for good.

    Yes, I am a business owner, have been many different times over the years and I would NEVER treat my people like this.

    I was once on the receiving end of such a cold move before the Holidays when I had young babies and a new family to take care of.

    I swore then, even in my late 20s, that I would never become someone like that, no matter how life's fortunes treated me along the way.

    It was a good, though harsh, lesson. I haven't gone back on my principles, nor will I.

    I can do without ANACS and I hope many others feel the same way.

    Just because America's business model has devolved over the years doesn't make it right nor moral.
    "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
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From the Website........


    ANACS Link
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like it or not (I don't, personally), from a business perspective, he did what he thought needed to be done.
    Looks like he has a 1/2/08 deadline to be up and running again (due to FUN'08?).

    Now, what it does show me is someone who might be good from a solo perspective but not from a "running the business" perspective.
    You can't do what JT did and not expect things to leak out and rumors go flying.
    In the coin biz, you can't expect rumors to be a good thing.

    Imho, he should have had the email keyed to go out, the website change ready to flip, etc etc etc timed for the very moment one tells employees.
    Telling employees should have been roughly 2-tiered.... upper mgmt/employees and then, immediately after (or simultaneously by a trusted #2 person) for the rest of the employees.

    Any good will that he may have gotten, by doing this maybe in Feb/Mar, is more than lost by doing it when he did. Even with his 4 week plan initially, that is still holiday season.

    Many employers only look at the money and leave out human factors....they feel that people should be thankful for the job. Well, some employers learn the hard way that you don't get LOYALTY from your employees that way and loyalty is an important intangible in a lot of businesses.

    Good luck to the employees.....

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭
    I have not gotten this Email. I also have a submission currently at ANACS and am wondering what the heck is going on............

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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I have not received the email yet either but I do take exception to the phrasing in the posted letter. Specifically: "the company is being relocated to suburban Denver, Colorado"

    The company is not being relocated, only its name, its assets (sans employees), and its business responsibilities. Everything else is being scattered to the winds of chance!

    Merry Christmas!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    I find it hard to believe that they can turn the company upside down, move 600+ miles away andkeep step within a few days. Where are the graders coming from? Were they ready to just pack up and move to Colorado in a week? I'd doubt it. Even if some were, they are going to start short staffed. What about all the other positions? Has JT been hiring office staff, shipping staff etc. over the past month without a confirmed sale?
  • Maybe they will outsource it to India. I hear Indian Rupee graders work for cheap!image
  • joecopperjoecopper Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭
    No
  • They've screwed the pooch. It will be a long road back..............
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I find it hard to believe that they can turn the company upside down, move 600+ miles away andkeep step within a few days. >>



    First thing I thought when I read that "back in action" January 2 line.

    Russ, NCNE
  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    Yes...
    U.S. Air Force Security Forces Retired

    In memory of the USAF Security Forces lost: A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, 9/28/05; SSgt Brian McElroy, 1/22/06; TSgt Jason Norton, 1/22/06; A1C Lee Chavis, 10/14/06; SSgt John Self, 5/14/07; A1C Jason Nathan, 6/23/07; SSgt Travis Griffin, 4/3/08; 1Lt Joseph Helton, 9/8/09; SrA Nicholas J. Alden, 3/3/2011. God Bless them and all those who have lost loved ones in this war. I will never forget their loss.
  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Recieved their e-mail today...

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