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The NCS guarantee - why bother?

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I bought a 5-figure "splasher" the other day - wouldn't fit in the holder so it was issued a photo-guarantee.

$100?? Is it the same for slabbed coins by NCS?? image
"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oops - forgot the picture.... image

    image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Not sure what you mean by splasher but where my wife comes from (NJ) its someone tossed off a bridge. image
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's so 1980's! image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So are we gonna see your splasher? image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    They should get a bigger slab for odd sized items.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lakesammman, don't knock the NCS photo-guarantee, as it makes for a great placemat if your a sloppy eater? image

    If so... that would make you a Splasher too! image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They should get a bigger slab for odd sized items. >>




    They had a chance, but passed!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Actually, it's the same with PhotoCert NGC and (I think) GSA coins as well. If they can't be sealed there really is not gaurantee.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    Is it stickerable? Isnt that all that really matters anyway?


    edited to add: Got a pic of the "splasher"? Just curiosity.
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    I presented NGC with an alternative slab for holdering large medals (well, actually anything that didn't fit into their regular holders or multi-holders). Everyone that has seen them were very enthusiastic about them. However, the financial person ended up being in charge of the project and never even bothered to return any of my calls or emails to discuss it. We never got into a cost conversation. We offered them ways to seal the slab so that it was tamper evident and if they didn't like those, had a list of other alternatives, but again, without the person responsible for the decision ever taking the effort to return any of my attempts to contact her, the project fell apart.

    Guess the top people at NGC feel that a photo is a better gaurantee than a protective plastic case.

    A very big disappointment in that 3 top people at NGC were very interested in moving forward with this product.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I presented NGC with an alternative slab for holdering large medals (well, actually anything that didn't fit into their regular holders or multi-holders). Everyone that has seen them were very enthusiastic about them. However, the financial person ended up being in charge of the project and never even bothered to return any of my calls or emails to discuss it. We never got into a cost conversation. We offered them ways to seal the slab so that it was tamper evident and if they didn't like those, had a list of other alternatives, but again, without the person responsible for the decision ever taking the effort to return any of my attempts to contact her, the project fell apart.

    Guess the top people at NGC feel that a photo is a better gaurantee than a protective plastic case.

    A very big disappointment in that 3 top people at NGC were very interested in moving forward with this product. >>




    Post a pic!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Post a pic!!! >>



    We had made a space on the front for them to place their insert. They even agreed to use some of my medals for marketing purposes and I had some of them holdered. I should have taken them from them at FUN, but I decided to let them send them to me. After FUN and before they sent them back, the decision was made not to use these and they removed all of the tamper evident seals.

    By request:

    image
  • ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    I like the medal. I am really diggin all the stuff from the Exposition. Great idea with the slabs too. Its a shame it didnt go through.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The $100 limit for the guaranty of authenticity is bullsh*t.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Agree with Andy.

    Does anyone know if the guarantee is different for a coin in a NCS holder?
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Post a pic!!! >>



    We had made a space on the front for them to place their insert. They even agreed to use some of my medals for marketing purposes and I had some of them holdered. I should have taken them from them at FUN, but I decided to let them send them to me. After FUN and before they sent them back, the decision was made not to use these and they removed all of the tamper evident seals.

    By request:

    image >>



    that rocks!
    image

    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lakesammman, best only to send 2-figure splashers to NCS image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!

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