TIME FOR EVERYONE TO VENT..... WHAT'S YOUR PET PEEVE IN COIN COLLECTING?

Peaceman · October 18, 2004 12:22PM

I'm going to have to say........ SELLERS NOT SHIPPING THE PICTURED COIN.

Your turn....

kryptonitecomics · October 18, 2004 12:33PM

Sellers that have no clue how to grade.......I'm not talking about questionable grading where you think it'f a VF30 and they say EF40, but rather an AU50 advertised as an MS64 etc

It's not so much that I might be taken advantage of by rather inexperienced collectors or youg folks trying to start out getting ripped off

Blackhawk · October 18, 2004 12:35PM

Dealers who run "buy & sell to wholesaler" shops and have the audacity to call their stores coinshops. They have no inventory and cannot find anything for you, they only buy cheaply from the unsuspecting and turn it immediately to a larger dealer.

JRH · October 18, 2004 12:39PM

Buying a coin on e-bay and sending prompt payment, only to be ignored (no response to e-mails) as the seller "drags his feet" in sending the item. I'll give an example if I don't hear something from one soon.

Hard to believe someone would think they would get repeat business. More likely the word spreads "off the record" and he loses a great deal of business that he never knew he lost.

ElectricEye · October 18, 2004 12:39PM

Dealers that refer to themselves as pimps.

my3cents · October 18, 2004 12:39PM

buyers who say sellers don't know how to grade coins

SDSportsFan · October 18, 2004 12:46PM

Coins that I want but can't afford

Steve

TUMUSS · October 18, 2004 12:50PM

Knowing that a coin has received three different grades by NCG & PCGS.

kamehameha00 · October 18, 2004 12:54PM

ACG, SGS, NTC, Tru-Grade, Home Shopping Networks, Littleton, The Kennedy Mint, people selling overgraded pieces of junk in Coin World and Numismatic News, and the rest of the Numismatic Axis of Evil.

Shamika · October 18, 2004 12:55PM

<< WHAT'S YOUR PET PEEVE IN COIN COLLECTING? >>

The way some of the people around her get so bent out of shape over the most stupid little things.

poorguy · October 18, 2004 12:56PM

Buying a coin, cracking it, submitting it to be graded several times only to have it keep coming back as the same grade when it is obviously ultra-PQ. Then, sell it because you have some expenses that mean more to your family than your collection could ever mean to you. Then hearing about the coin upgrading on the buyer's first attempt.

Actually, I am glad the buyer got the coin upgraded. Great fellow and well deserving of the awesome karma he obviously has.

CardsFan · October 18, 2004 12:56PM

I've got two: E-Bayers that complain that your shipping cost are too much even though it is listed up front. If you don't want to pay it don't bid. On the other hand Sellers who charge to much shipping suck too.

DesertRat · October 18, 2004 12:57PM

The way some of the people around her get so bent out of shape over the most stupid little things.

+1

oreville · October 18, 2004 1:01PM

Pet peeve?

That I am now forgetting more in coins than I am learning!

66Tbird · October 18, 2004 1:04PM

The US mint price increase really whizzed my franklins

edi 4 spilin

fountainheadgold · October 18, 2004 1:06PM

sellars who tweak the pictures

Cladiator · October 18, 2004 1:07PM

snooty dealers

MrEureka · October 18, 2004 1:11PM

Auctioneers that tout coins as Pop 1 or Finest Graded without mentioning or even considering coins graded by any other TPG.

Coin doctors that are so in love with their own work that they actually believe their coins are better than "the real thing".

Collectors that lack the slightest bit of curiosity about coins they do not collect.

LincolnCentMan · October 18, 2004 1:13PM

I'd say my biggest pet peeve is when MORRONS put "Not PCGS" in their auction titles. I refuse to bid on such auctions, even if I might like the coin.

David

lloydmincy · October 18, 2004 1:18PM

The bull market right now when I want to buy, not sell...

relayer · October 18, 2004 1:19PM

PEOPLE THAT SHOUT

ANACONDA · October 18, 2004 1:22PM

People who don't own a business and who never have owned a business and who never could own a business who also know nothing about business who constantly complaining about the business practices of business people.

They should stick to what they know about....ripping their employers off by posting to the PCGS message board while they're supposed to be working.

lava · October 18, 2004 1:23PM

My pet peeve is all the girls who come on to me just to try and get me to come down a little on my prices. I'm not a piece of meat, and last time I checked my butt didn't have a pinch me sign on it. The nerve of some people.

thebeav · October 18, 2004 1:24PM

Trick photography !!

SarasotaFrank · October 18, 2004 1:25PM

ambulance chasers

clw54 · October 18, 2004 1:27PM

Selling Morgans with the rims half gone as VG+.

Tonelover · October 18, 2004 1:28PM

People who think that nice pictures are more important than nice coins.

my3cents · October 18, 2004 1:28PM

everyone bashing Adrian.

ENOUGH

BAJJERFAN · October 18, 2004 1:31PM

<< ambulance chasers >>

You mean they are lookin for body bags?

SarasotaFrank · October 18, 2004 1:48PM

<< 

<< ambulance chasers >>

You mean they are lookin for body bags?

>>

that they try to sell raw for moon money with a buyback guarantee if you get it in a slab?

ANACONDA · October 18, 2004 1:49PM

So, Sarasota Frank's pet peeve in coin collecting is ambulance chasers. Well, in that same vein, one of my pet peeves in coin collecting is illiteracy. I like it when we can share!

Sarasota, I'm sorry that you don't like personal injury lawyers, but you know what.....you might want to become one! It's really a great profession. If I could choose any career...ANY career, I would choose to be a personal injury lawyer. Do you know what I like the most about it? The money. I made more money in the past week than I ever thought I would make in a year. And I hardly worked! Sarasota.....IT IS GREAT! And, people never stop hurting each other and insurance companies are so easy to roll! I hope that doesn't upset you anymore than you are already upset! Well, tonight's Monday when I roll around in proof Trade Dollars in 65 and better. Gotta go!

ccex · October 18, 2004 1:59PM

1) Coin World, eBay, and Numismatic News systematically profiting from the sale of overgraded and cleaned coins by their regular customers, and the ANA refusing to mention names.

2) Rude dealers who discourage new collectors

3) Everyone else Kamehama00 mentioned above.

TUMUSS · October 18, 2004 2:13PM

<< ... and insurance companies are so easy to roll! >>

Dave99B · October 18, 2004 2:19PM

This occurs at all coins shows I attend: People spread their greysheets and notes all over the top of the dealers cases, preventing ANYONE from seeing what the heck he has!

Knock it off!

Dave

Murphy · October 18, 2004 2:49PM

---Paying for a type-2 and getting a cheap type-1.
---Paying for a MS-65 Red and getting a AU-50 dipped and shipped.
---Not getting any feedback on a successful EBay transaction.
---Feedback that states, I LIKE these kinda trades!...

---Cleanable mudges on a proof quality surface.
--(big peave)--Accidently putting an ms-63 scratch on a PR-69 coin! All it takes is one slip and a drop...a soiled q-tip...a short slide across a tiny grain of sand. ---Fingerprints!
---not enough room on the dining room table to keep coins and supplies - who would want to keep them locked away in a closet or cabinet???
---Not enough time - I could go on but its getting late.

Smitty79 · October 18, 2004 3:39PM

There are a lot listed that I agree with but one of my biggest is snobby high end, expensive coin collectors/dealers that make snide comments about a budget collector's lower end coins.

TUMUSS · October 18, 2004 5:38PM

ER · October 18, 2004 7:21PM

Robert Chambers
Shawn Loeffler
Paul Hollis

ColonialCoinUnion · October 18, 2004 7:34PM

A multi-parter:

1) That so many nice original XF / AU colonial coins have been stripped, dipped, oiled, waxed or otherwise enhanced and 2) that the grading services have rewarded the people who do this by slabbing the coins as 'mint state' so that 3) certain dealers and/or auction firms can market them as pop 1 'finest knowns' and then eventually 4) collectors who don't know any better can buy them for too much money.

I get depressed just thinking about it.

Sphinx357 · October 18, 2004 7:36PM

clueless dealers that are dumbfounded when presented any coin in a PCGS slab above MS65
I'm sure you've all come across this.. (well the greysheet only goes to ms65)

WaterSport · October 18, 2004 8:10PM

The entire grading system!

WS

Boom · October 18, 2004 8:18PM

1- Hypocrites, two-faced people, especially coin doctors that are so in love with their own work that they forget what life is truly
all about..... 2- Phonies, people that put on airs and seem to forget that we all perform the same bodily funtions and that just
because they may own superior coins does not make them superior people. 3- Greed and favoritism. In the end, coins, money,
Greed and Pride won't amount to a hill of beans.

1956Quarter · October 18, 2004 8:28PM

Photo Doctors. They post a beautiful (Doctored or skillfully taken) photo of a coin, and build it up in the description, but when you recieve it, its a piece of slider junk thats been whized. Sellers who offer a no questions asked return guarantee but take two+ weeks to refund your money when they demand and you paid within the first X hours.

IvanOnly · October 18, 2004 9:51PM

My lack of self control when buying coins!

I go down to buy 1 coin for my type set and come back with 6.

IvanOnly · October 18, 2004 9:52PM

<< Robert Chambers
Shawn Loeffler
Paul Hollis

>>

hahaha, I hear that. Chambers is what nightmares are made of!

ANACONDA · October 18, 2004 9:57PM

"snobby high end, expensive coin collectors/dealers that make snide comments about a budget collector's lower end coins. "

Someone might accuse me of that if "lower end coins" includes modern coinage, however, I try not to be snide, but rather totally blunt.

I only mean to steer people into early circulated type coins and away from modern coinage, especially super high grade coinage that can often cost more than early circulated coins.

I try to always say in effect "I wouldn't collect modern coinage....it's boring (inherint in 'boring' is that it is my opinion)....you should collect early circulated coins..."

I never mean to suggest that if you collect inexpensive coins somehow that is less rewarding than collecting more expensive coins or that collectors of expensive coins are more important than collectors of inexpensive coins.

I realize this may bother some people but I truly believe that if it gets some people away from modern coinage, they will be glad they did. As a matter of fact, I have been thanked by a number of collectors for steering them away from modern coinage towards early circulated and truly rare U.S. coins.

mrearlygold · October 18, 2004 9:59PM

<< So, Sarasota Frank's pet peeve in coin collecting is ambulance chasers. Well, in that same vein, one of my pet peeves in coin collecting is illiteracy. I like it when we can share!

Sarasota, I'm sorry that you don't like personal injury lawyers, but you know what.....you might want to become one! It's really a great profession. If I could choose any career...ANY career, I would choose to be a personal injury lawyer. Do you know what I like the most about it? The money. I made more money in the past week than I ever thought I would make in a year. And I hardly worked! Sarasota.....IT IS GREAT! And, people never stop hurting each other and insurance companies are so easy to roll! I hope that doesn't upset you anymore than you are already upset! Well, tonight's Monday when I roll around in proof Trade Dollars in 65 and better. Gotta go! >>

cladking · October 18, 2004 10:02PM

<< "snobby high end, expensive coin collectors/dealers that make snide comments about a budget collector's lower end coins. "

Someone might accuse me of that if "lower end coins" includes modern coinage, however, I try not to be snide, but rather totally blunt.

I only mean to steer people into early circulated type coins and away from modern coinage, especially super high grade coinage that can often cost more than early circulated coins.

I try to always say in effect "I wouldn't collect modern coinage....it's boring (inherint in 'boring' is that it is my opinion)....you should collect early circulated coins..."

I never mean to suggest that if you collect inexpensive coins somehow that is less rewarding than collecting more expensive coins or that collectors of expensive coins are more important than collectors of inexpensive coins.

I realize this may bother some people but I truly believe that if it gets some people away from modern coinage, they will be glad they did. As a matter of fact, I have been thanked by a number of collectors for steering them away from modern coinage towards early circulated and truly rare U.S. coins. >>

Another modern fan. What is the allure of these coins?

So your pet peeve is what? ...that there are some modern collectors left? The hobby must be very frustrating for you.

ANACONDA · October 18, 2004 10:06PM

Would you tell someone that collecting shower caps is a great idea?

Sphinx357 · October 18, 2004 10:08PM

mrearlygold · October 18, 2004 10:11PM

<< Would you tell someone that collecting shower caps is a great idea? >>

Yeh but only in gem

Tom

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