The Internet Coin Show.
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Everyone seemed to enjoy my recent "Social Media" thread(well, not really, but let's pretend). With its thought provoking content I figured I might as well ask a follow-up question about Social Media and the inter-active web as it relates to our Hobby. One of the best things about collecting is the Coin Show. Heck, we have virtual everything else in the World today, is a virtual bourse and an Internet Coin Show that far away??
Will the day ever come where there is a Virtual Coin Show, all tied together with Skype and "Go To Meeting" sort of stuff?? I can see it now, no one has to make the trek across Country to Long Beach, they just post their inventory online and sit at the desk with the monitor to greet customers, talk coins, make sales/purchase and finalize everything via Credit Card and verified accounts, shipping out the next day.
Noone ever needs to leave home, interact with other Humans and get ragged on because the mustard dripped on their shirt!!! It would be Nirvana.
Al H.
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That sounds like an advanced website. An interesting idea.
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I just got a VR Headset and there are thousands of virtual places to visit, so why not a coin show. It would be great to be in your living room and experience the bourse floor. I bet its not too far out.
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I've had this thought before as well.
One day, probably in the not too soon future, technology will develop to the point where humans living in advanced countries will (for their work lives and for their non work lives) not have to physically do anything, or physically go anywhere.
All needs, wants and desires will be immediately and instantaneously accessible.
Want a pizza, send a text and in ten minutes a drone will deliver a pizza to you.
Humans will have a physical location where they are located ("home" as it is and will be). They will be "connected" in all respects. Perhaps they will simply have a Pod that they sit, stand, recline, lay down or even float it, connected (through the net) to all others that they choose to interact with. They can issue commands (voice and or thought, since typing on a keyboard or writing on paper is so primitive) to whatever device/robot/android, etc. is present to receive and carryout commands.
No need to actually get out and about and interact face to face with others [family, neighbors, co-workers, etc.] if you prefer not to.
I find it interesting that this is already happening. People text each other even though they are in the same home, office or even room.
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A really interesting concept, all I can say is the closest shows and the internet tend to get besides dealer reports is, Collectors Corner has their mobile spin-off that lets you know which coins are at what dealers' tables.
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I think you will see more virtual bourse websites like CU's , where multiple dealers will cooperate and upload their inventory so that it's one-stop shopping for a collector looking for a particular coin or series.
While I am sure there will be fewer public coin shows and maybe more dealer-only shows, there is still something to be said for making a final sale to the consumer and saying good-bye to the coin in exchange for cash. In a virtual coin show, dealers would have to remove inventory during the show and essentially send it out on approval
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Keets, no doubt sometime in the future it will happen. It's not a bad idea. The concept was kicked around the hobby niche that I am associated with. After lots of chitchat and then more formal meetings within the "dealer crowd," the conclusion was thumbs down. The reasoning being that it was just another way for show promoters to make more money off the dealers without there being much of a positive impact for the dealers. The jist of it was that the more high-end dealers already had successful websites where they were basically doing the same thing that was proposed and the mom & pop operations were already strapped for cash doing the conventional show format and thus didn't have the funds to take a chance on an unknown and unproven concept. Just didn't go anywhere. That was years ago though, and I have no doubt that at some point in time, someone, will figure out how to make it go. It's inevitable. Maybe you're that someone. After all you're going to need something to keep you busy during your soon-to-be RETIREMENT!
Isn't the Internet Coin Show called eBay?
They are open 24/7 365 days a year and have pictures for every coin.
keets, that would be awesome...I could see it happening eventually, even if it's not an ongoing success. I'd be there.
My mom was part of some Lularoe multi level marketing scam for a while last year. They constantly had Facebook "shops" where they bribe each other to post their clothing for a "pop up" sale and people call dibs on each item.
I don't know why something similar couldn't be done on Facebook with coins. Dealers market their coins on a virtual shop, have dedicated "show" hours where you get immediate feedback or negotiation.
I think the VR idea might work, eventually, but there is a percentage of the population that can't use VR. I think there's a small but significant group that barf when VR is turned on. I can't use it as I have an inner ear condition where I instantly get dizzy from it and if I push on, get a splitting headache.
Yup. This is actually what brought be back to coin collecting. I had a paper due and I was procrastinating and figured, "I wonder what coins are selling for now". BAM. Got sucked back in. It also helps that coin photography became much, much better.
I don't agree with the assertion that eBay qualifies as an Internet Coin Show of the ilk that I mentioned in the OP, Long Beach. eBay more closely resembles the smaller, local 30 dealer shows that take place everywhere on any given Sunday. there may be nice items listed at ebay and I frequent that site daily, but it doesn't have the quality, diversity and range of dealers and that attend Long Beach, dealers that I would like to meet with.
not even close, and I can't view their entire inventory.