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Why Coin Dealers Drink, Part MML

nencoinnencoin Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭✭
Because we receive letters in the mail like the one below....

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    llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    Looks like a dealer-to-dealer prank! image
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    BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    "Attractie" imageimage
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    keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It does seem to be official. image
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    relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What an idiot.
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    You should forward it to Laura!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    did they ask you to send them on approval?
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    blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,968 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What grade is MS-superlative?
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All your Peace dollar are belong to us.
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    garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭

    I think the poor guy is a little daffy. He is harmless, no doubt.
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    AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>All your Peace dollar are belong to us. >>




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    CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭✭
    Why can't you just send him some coins at a low price that you will guarantee will upgrade?

    Is that so hard?









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    HTubbsHTubbs Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭
    We got this same letter, I guess he's shopping around! image
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    dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    I think the title of this thread should be, "Why Coin Collector's Drink?" image
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,625 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like a dealer-to-dealer prank! image >>



    Agree but I'm not sure it's a prank.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK can you please show us which coins you sent him.image
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We got this same letter, I guess he's shopping around! image >>



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    Chinese dealer trying to go legit..
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    DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    My guess is a 12 year old.
    Becky
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I like this part:

    ". . . or if it is not gradable it will not upgrade."
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    seanqseanq Posts: 8,826 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Someone should call Scott Travers' publisher and order up a handwriting analysis.


    Sean Reynolds
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    MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
    Suggest to him a sub-tier TPG and his problems will forever be solved!
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tell him to try the BST.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    HallcoHallco Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can has Peace Dollar? image
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    OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, at least he tried, I'll drink to thatimage

    Steve
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    CoinCoinsCoinCoins Posts: 698 ✭✭✭
    i hope he's not breeding
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tell him, with a very straight face, that he should buy coins already graded by the grading service he likes at the grade levels he wants, so that there will be no need to try to upgrade them.

    Se if he gets it.

    TD
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    CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it is the real deal. There is a very small minority out there who think the dealer's primary business is to put together profitable deals for the client.
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    JamesMJamesM Posts: 757
    Cute
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    Send him back a polite hand-written letter stating that you have such coins and will be happy to send them to him once he remits payment in full. That's it, don't write anything more, or less, don't give a dollar amount, nothing. See how your vague ambiguity strikes him. His response may be quite comical. I think you've just touched the tip of a very large, very funny, iceberg.
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    sweetwillietsweetwilliet Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It does seem to be official. image >>



    It's not official, it is an OFFICAL MATTER!! Better watch where you step, don't want to find any of that fical matter!!image

    Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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    blue594blue594 Posts: 550


    << <i>Send him back a polite hand-written letter stating that you have such coins and will be happy to send them to him once he remits payment in full. That's it, don't write anything more, or less, don't give a dollar amount, nothing. See how your vague ambiguity strikes him. His response may be quite comical. I think you've just touched the tip of a very large, very funny, iceberg. >>




    I REALLY, REALLY like this idea. I'd love to see the chain of communications that would develop.
    Good one TheShampineCollection.

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    astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Because we receive letters in the mail like the one below....

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    And I am STILL waiting to hear back from you!!! image
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    FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭
    Just got offered $28.18 for 1 oz silver rounds if I pay shipping....


    Dear frankcoins,

    I notice you are selling on here some one ounce silver rounds that on avrage are bringing you $37.11, but since you would of payed eBay Based on the fee calculator $3.35 to ebay, and $1.38 to paypal, and the free shipping you offer would of cost at least $1.75, plus 78 cents or so for supplies as far as I estimate, plus the time listing the item at 5 minutes or so if you pay your self a modest $20 an hour that come to $1.67, that come to the net yielded deducting for shipping, ebay listing, ebay seller fees and the deduction for paypal, if I payed you $28.18 that would have you end up with the same thing. If you can ship postpaid I will take up to 50 coins, please just let me know and I will send a money order. Thanks

    Seller xxx

    Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
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    there is "some" logic to his thinking. Guess he didnt figure you could drive around the corner for a modest time spent of $1.64 per hour and dump them at your local god and silver exchange however~image
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, letters like that would make me uncork the bottle early...... image Cheers, RickO
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    BanemorthBanemorth Posts: 986 ✭✭✭
    I have great want of peace dollars in gradeable upgrade condition for a price of fairness.
    Justin From Jersey

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    Mar327Mar327 Posts: 2,074 ✭✭


    << <i>i hope he's not breeding >>


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    DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭✭
    A few years ago I was selling a bulk of cull large cents, one by one.

    A chap mailed me a letter telling me to send him the four best, highest-grade specimens from the lot, and if he liked them he would buy them all.



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