Small but powerful 60x Lighted loop you will love, just $2.28 with free shipping on eBay

Texast · March 29, 2017 9:09PM

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/252694633942

This is an amazingly powerful loop / scope Tha you will love, I bought this on a whim, then when I got it I could not believe the quality. If you're a VAM Collector, or looking for repunched mint marks or any thing you want to examine closely you will want several of these. Just take a look, it's about an inch and a half long, comes in a nice pouch and I was surprised I got it in less than two weeks from China. These could sell for $25 retail in the U.S. one note, it shows it being clipped to a cellphone camera lenses but it didn't include a clip.
Just passing on a great find. It's lighted by two Bright LED'S and also has a black light which is great for viewing Watermarks and other security features.
Buy one for a friend while your at it!

ThoseBackPages · March 29, 2017 10:08PM

what kind of battery is required? (the listing states it is not included)

Coinstartled · March 29, 2017 10:14PM

Without commenting on the product....it is remarkable that one can have a product delivered from China to their door for a deuce and a quarter.

Texast · March 29, 2017 10:31PM

@ThoseBackPages said:
what kind of battery is required? (the listing states it is not included)

It comes with batteries, in fact you can't buy the battery here for less than you do for the scope and shipping. It also has a nice leather pouch that has Velcro to keep the flap closed. Most items that have lithium batteries claim there not included so they can ship by air, I've bought a bunch of gadgets from China and they always claim no battery and they always do.

Aspie_Rocco · March 29, 2017 10:39PM

@Coinstartled said:
Without commenting on the product....it is remarkable that one can have a product delivered from China to their door for a deuce and a quarter.

This always blows my mind too. How does it work?? I can't even mail a slabbed coin that cheap across town.
Although technically I did receive a rattler Slab in a paper letter envelope, wrapped in paper towels, with less than $1 in stamps on it.

Not to be a voice of dissent...
Ultimately I just can't reconcile sending money overseas. I know most things come from there but still avoid it. I got some rail mount pistol and rifle lasers once, just to try it out. I was not surprised when they fell part after a few rounds. I also wonder how much lead and bad chemicals they use in manufacturing.

Sweet looking gadget though.

Texast · March 29, 2017 10:40PM

@Coinstartled said:
Without commenting on the product....it is remarkable that one can have a product delivered from China to their door for a deuce and a quarter.

It's amazing, I can't ship the same size package for less Than $2.61,

grote15 · March 29, 2017 10:51PM

I bought one. For $2.28 and 13 cents in ebay bucks, it's worth trying. If it works as well as Texast stated, it is a bargain.

howards · March 29, 2017 10:56PM

Seller doesn't ship to PO boxes.

ThoseBackPages · March 29, 2017 10:58PM

The blacklight is intriguing to me, im in!

MedalCollector · March 30, 2017 1:55AM

Ever heard of epacket?

When I visited the Pudong airport cargo terminal in Shanghai a couple years ago, there was a lot of mail waiting to be loaded. I mean a lot! Likely much of it was due for the US. Maybe not as much as from other Chinese airports though.

Coinstartled · March 30, 2017 3:06AM

"""Ever heard of epacket?""

Sure have, but it is still 8000 miles from Hong Kong to New York. As others noted, I can't ship a slabbed coin across town for under $3.00 (including packaging and the obligatory gas to get to the post office ).

ricko · March 30, 2017 4:03AM

Wow...that is unbelievably cheap.... that alone makes me wary..... Anyway, do not need 60x...Cheers, RickO

JJSingleton · March 30, 2017 4:18AM

Cool. thanks for the tip.

mt_msla · March 30, 2017 5:05AM

Thanks @Texast just picked one up

VanHalen · March 30, 2017 6:45AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:
My understanding is that we the people of the United States of America subsidize these amazing postal rates from them to us. Have a problem with such an item and it will cost you 20, if not 40 to send it back for a refund.

I am told this is why our shipping rates from within our own borders have been jacked up to beyond unreasonable and let's not overlook how high the rates have gone to ship many places abroad. Australia, Germany and several others have more than doubled in the last ten years.

I doubt the optics are worth half of the cost of admission.

The U.S. pays China to send it? Now how would that work?

I would assume the Chinese gov't picks up the postage, anything I've ever bought from the Far East was delivered (essentially) for free and the USPS had to get paid something (from the seller).

DoubleEagle59 · March 30, 2017 7:01AM

Great products at super low prices.

My last purchase was for one of those ultra powerful flashlights that only cost $6.00 with free shipping from China.

Be prepared for a long time getting it as the 'free shipping' took close to two months to arrive.

TONEDDOLLARS · March 30, 2017 7:47AM

i BOUGHT ONE OF THESE THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, IT WAS 1,95 AT THE TIME. WORKS GREAT

neildrobertson · March 30, 2017 8:15AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:
I believe DC sold us out lock, stock and barrel. Manufacturing base went to the far east and now we blindly pay the costs for them to ship to us. I can recall when American machine and equipment manufacturers were prohibited from selling equipment to China and elsewhere so they bought from foreign competitors.

Keep it together dude. This is a coin forum.

mustangmanbob · March 30, 2017 8:51AM

I needed a 1 time use diamond tipped glass cutting bit.

It cost 11 cents DELIVERED from China, bought off of ebay.

I cut 4 holes in the bottom of bottles, just what I needed to do, and the bit was getting tired on #4.

The holes were cut cleanly, and I just trashed the bit when I was done.

Coinstartled · March 30, 2017 8:55AM

For 14 cents more, you could have had two bits.

Bigpoppas · March 30, 2017 9:40AM

Thanks @Texast !!

I couldn't resist for that price and ordered one . Thanks for sharing

FredWeinberg · March 30, 2017 9:41AM

I just ordered four of 'em.

I figure if one is a good deal,
four must be 4x better!

epcjimi1 · March 30, 2017 10:02AM

I'm in the you got to be kidding me camp. $2.28 piece price, free shipping.

Why would I want this? Junk.

Optics cost money.

Regardless the cost of shipping vs. pc price. Crazy.

TequilaDave · March 30, 2017 10:06AM

@FredWeinberg said:
I just ordered four of 'em.

I figure if one is a good deal,
four must be 4x better!

Reminds me of the quote from the movie Contact - "Why buy one when you can buy two for twice the price"?

Texast · March 30, 2017 11:20AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:

@neildrobertson said:

Keep it together dude. This is a coin forum.

Maybe you have better answers for why an item from China can be bought and shipped for less than a tenth of the cost to ship it back or why you can't sell anything to them, not even a coin or their own merch?

Many remain with no idea what has taken place starting in the early 70's when China was pretty much still in the stone age.

Wow, how a little scope brings up all the trade problems. Today it's China, in the 70's and 80's it was Japan, and the 60's West Germany.
It's always something, this country is addicted to Debt, why not, these countries give us the products we buy whether it's a two dollar item shipped from China or the $200 Saw you buy at Home Depot that was also made in China, what do we give them? Nothing, digits in a fake bank account, we give them Debt.
I remember one of the jobs I had, and lost to one of the biggest liars of the early eighties, Lee Iacocca, after our nation bailed out Chrysler the first time he went on television as the Chairman of Chrysler and shouted "Buy American" I worked at Great Lakes Steel in Detroit, the main supplier of steel for Chrysler, until the terms of the bailout required him to buy the cheapest steel, and Japan stepped up and dumped Steel on the market.
If you really want this Country to be Great Again get rid of your personal Debt which is nearly 12 times the National Debt, over 160 Trillion Dollars.
Oh to keep this coin related hears a coin picture.

TequilaDave · March 30, 2017 11:38AM

Debt (and money, for that matter) in the form of fiat currency is simply virtual debt (and virtual money) and is worth only what we all pretend it to be worth. As far as I'm concerned, China can continue buying up all the debt she wants. Digits on a computer screen are very easy to produce....

TequilaDave · March 30, 2017 12:05PM

It's all smoke and mirrors - nothing more, nothing less.

And as our great leader says.... "What,Me,Worry?"

RockyMtnProspector · March 30, 2017 12:35PM

Ordered 2.

Texast · March 30, 2017 1:46PM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:
Well, you're certainly entitled to nurture and cultivate the notion all they are getting is keystrokes and ignore the default terms signed into law nearly 10 years ago, as well as what else followed like "insourcing" and transfer or real wealth amounting to much more than mere keystrokes.

If the people are indeed paying the one-way subsidies for China to ship here, are they only getting keystrokes or something much more that snowballs rapidly?

I don't nurture and cultivate any notion all they are getting is keystrokes.
I am a realest, I have waited a lifetime for a real businessman to take the helm of this country, I would have preferred someone like Warren Buffett, instead we have Donald Trump. This country we all love has done it's best to destroy itself, and that is a true shame. It was not NAFTA, it was our own gread. We wanted everything cheap.
As another posted he has no debt, I also have no debt, no credit cards, only debit. I worked for this government Local, State and Federal In Uniform, If most of the public knew how our Government has schemed to keep us dependant on handouts they would better understand why our Nation is going to hell in a handbasket.
As Numismatist most here understand what Fiat Currency is, most here know that the Federal Reserve is only a branch of the World Bank, not a true part of the Treasury. Read up on "The Business Roundtable" set up under Nixon, then you will find out who really runs this Country.

Back to the scope, the picture was not taken using it.

And now a coin picture to stay on topic.

koynekwest · March 30, 2017 9:19PM

I thought this was a COIN forum, not a place for politics.

ricko · March 31, 2017 5:34AM

Actually, I think the comments are more related to economics... which, however, do get manipulated by politics...Cheers, RickO

ricko · March 31, 2017 8:00AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins ...Your powers of observation are amazing..... Cheers, RickO

TequilaDave · March 31, 2017 8:05AM

Sorry, you're right. Now if I could only find where that darn "S" went and how I can get it back under the date where it belongs....

AUandAG · March 31, 2017 8:19AM

Some of us have old tired eyes and need all the help we can get!
Ordered one.
bob

ms70 · March 31, 2017 6:56PM

Awesome! New toy! I'll have to get one.

ms70 · March 31, 2017 6:59PM

AND don't forget to click on his "See other items"!

3Legs · March 31, 2017 7:10PM

I like that thanks fo r the link.

Intueor · April 1, 2017 8:55AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:
Hand-held cellphone and taken thru the eyepiece of German zoom optics. They get much crisper when the camera phone is held by a tripod.

I have been researching Franklin Half varieties for years. If you would be so kind, could you identify “German zoom optics”? This is exactly the cellphone detail and resolution I need to document the elements in some varieties. I have used cellphone add-on optics in the past but I find the depth of field is always too shallow to focus on the entire 3D feature.
Thanx,
ron

Paulyaces76 · April 1, 2017 10:53AM

@ms70 said:
AND don't forget to click on his "See other items"!

Umm, nice!

Intueor · April 1, 2017 11:40AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:
Lieca Z4. Same as Cambridge, Bausch&Lomb etc.

Thanks so much for the (American made ) data and detail. I have been favoring the Leica EZ4 or ES2 Stereoscopes so this pretty much nails it.
Know this is really a subject for a new topic so I will stop but your time & kindness is appreciate.

ron

jwitten · April 1, 2017 11:46AM

Price just dropped to $1.99. Sucks to be all you suckers who paid $2.28! lol

epcjimi1 · April 1, 2017 11:53AM

@CoinsAndMoreCoins said:

Very affordable without having to support commie child slave labor while your countrymen subsidize free shipping.

Good one, LOL

jonruns · April 1, 2017 1:28PM

I just ordered one at $1.99...

Coinlearner · April 1, 2017 1:36PM

@jonruns said:
I just ordered one at $1.99...

Same here. Around 20 left.

crazyhounddog · April 1, 2017 1:36PM

I rolled the dice. This will mark the one and only purchase from a seller in China. I feel a bit foolish but if it's real I'll be happy. If not I'll just file a claim and let the chips fall where they will. I'm not gonna sweat it.

Coinstartled · April 1, 2017 7:10PM

Price reduced to $1.99.

Now Baley and Grote can get in on the action!

rawteam1 · April 1, 2017 7:38PM

@jwitten said:
Price just dropped to $1.99. Sucks to be all you suckers who paid $2.28! lol

Massive deflation, gold is up though...

ThoseBackPages · April 1, 2017 7:42PM

you guys are seriously worried about two dollars?

Coinstartled · April 1, 2017 8:00PM

It's not the two dollars...it's the 28 cents!!

grote15 · April 1, 2017 8:13PM

I got ebay bonus bucks with my purchase, so I only paid 22 cents more..

ThoseBackPages · April 25, 2017 5:24PM

Anyone get theirs yet? not i

Small but powerful 60x Lighted loop you will love, just $2.28 with free shipping on eBay

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