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Collectors- how much did you spend on slabbing costs in 2012?

MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
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Are you spending more on slabbing? less on slabbing? Staying the same? What percentage of your collecting budget is going towards plastication?
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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    in 2012, thousands!

    didn't seem like a lot till it was added up for taxes lol

    edited to answer OP

    Are you spending more on slabbing? less on slabbing? Staying the same? What percentage of your collecting budget is going towards plastication?

    1. more since last year
    2. small percentage going towards plastication mainly due to the low value of items and or light to moderate cleaning on some
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Still made a profit on the coins I sent in when they went back out. Got lucky on a couple this year.

    BTW sent in the replacements for my set today.image
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    I spent $2,185.30
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  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>I spent $2,185.30 >>



    Maybe 1500 ish
  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $950, with a chunk of that being from at-show same day grading.
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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I think i'm wondering if collectors are spending 1/4 or 1/3 of their collecting money on slabbing, and why if it's that much. Reselling? Protecting investment for your eventual heirs?
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    I spent $0, but I did buy some coins already slabbed. Main reason is having been burned one too many times buying raw.
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe $150, plus shipping. $ spent for potential upgrades. To je govno.
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  • BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
    image
    I quickly counted 10 submissions, having a total of 60 coins...

    Less than 2011, by a whole lot....
  • goldengolden Posts: 9,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do not want to even think about it.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Zero
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Zero here too.
    Every penny spent went were it should have.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    another $0.. same as every year.

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  • MowgliMowgli Posts: 1,219 ✭
    Zero for me too.
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  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In 2012, at least 4k!

    Tom

  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Zero, unless you count paying to have a coin crossed into the "right" plastic or paying to have a coin sent to CAC to make sure the plastic has all the bells and whistles. In that case...zero, I think. But I have been guilty of doing those things in the past.
  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭
    0

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  • KaelasdadKaelasdad Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭
    Looks like just over 10k here, and getting more ticked off everytime they bag as questionable color a coin I pulled from a dansco or a whitman with screaming rainbows.
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭


    << <i>Looks like just over 10k here, and getting more ticked off everytime they bag as questionable color a coin I pulled from a dansco or a whitman with screaming rainbows. >>



    Dayuuum. Sounds like you a have story or two to tell... image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,615 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Looks like just over 10k here, and getting more ticked off everytime they bag as questionable color a coin I pulled from a dansco or a whitman with screaming rainbows. >>



    Dayuuum. Sounds like you a have story or two to tell... image >>


    In fairness, the question was asked of "collectors" not dealers. Someone is venting. image

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  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Between the two services about 16k , but that also includes a few customer's coins as well a couple of dealers who are not authorized to submit.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just had my 1993 $50 AGE PCGS MS69 Partial Tilted Collar Mint Error re-slabbed at ANA in a new pronged holder so I could fully see the rim/edge.

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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $0. My coins dont want to be slabbed.
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    0 here too.
    Becky
  • ColonelKlinckColonelKlinck Posts: 385 ✭✭✭
    1,316
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    Spent $0 in '12, but always have a group of coins I've been meaning to have slabbed, so may do so in '13.

    Back in '10 I had some pieces slabbed at PCGS to the tune of $300, and all came back as expected in nice graded holders -- of course,
    they were just "stuff" that anyone can get at any time, ridiculously overpriced, ''easy" pieces like a 1909-S VDB in AU-55, a '14-D in VF-25
    and an 1867/7 Indian cent in AU-58, certainly nothing a truly advanced collector who runs with "the big boys" would sully their
    manicured hands with.
  • copperhuntercopperhunter Posts: 925 ✭✭✭
    Around $400 including shipping.
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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like just over 10k here, and getting more ticked off everytime they bag as questionable color a coin I pulled from a dansco or a whitman with screaming rainbows. >>



    Amen brother
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  • bigolebigole Posts: 385 ✭✭✭
    Great question!

    Not sure if I'm embarrassed, but a lot more than I thought.

    I joined PCGS in 2011, and only slabbed two coins other than my four "free" ones.

    In 2012, I sent in 92! Most were economy, but still, that's probably around $2,000, and I'm just an average casual collector.

    Maybe I need to join a "PCGS Submitters Anonymous" chapter..................
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    I spend about $400.00.
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  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $0 this year on slabbing. Perhaps $20 or so for stickering.
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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About $650.00 if you include my membership and associated "freebies" in there.
    Still waiting on my last batch that I slipped in under the wire of the price increase.

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  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Over $3,700...dang...that's a lot. 220 coins total.

    The reason being that I have been "flipping" a large percentage of the coins I submit to cover the cost of the ones I keep. I track each submission meticulously and have definitely come out ahead on my submission costs. But am still surprised it was that much.
  • magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    Not a RD cent. image

    Eric
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Glad to see that at least a few of us are paying for the band width.image
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  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I didn't really want to know.....

    A guestament of about $8K. But the good news is I now have about 40 more PCGS boxes...
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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For slabbing, I did not spend as much as I would have liked. 2013 will be better!
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  • ahopewell55ahopewell55 Posts: 276 ✭✭
    As a collector, I buy my coins already slabbed. But I did spend $62.50 at CAC.
  • TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I only sent in one submission that was 4 coins with my free voucher for the membership fees.
    Trade $'s
  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    exact same amount ive spent every year since 1986
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About $2000 which is the same for the last few years and is about 1/3 of the budget.

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    I love the variety of answers... sounds like some of us need a "slabbers anonymous" group? image
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  • ksammutksammut Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    zero (I haven't submitted anything to PCGS since they started charging for memberships)
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  • pantherpanther Posts: 395 ✭✭
    $2500.00 because I collect Varieties, $24.00 extra per coin. But it works out when I sell the extras after i upgrade.
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