Stolen coin collection put into Coinstar

I wanted to share this article with everyone. I didn't see anyone else having posted this, but if they did, be nice.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...in-collection-coinstar-machine-154615597.html

 

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Who the h*ll stores a coin collection, and one of rare coins at that, in a shed behind the house?

 

I like the caption on the picture of the coinstar
"Not an authorized rare coin dealer"

 

Lol, hidden in plain sight? Reminds me of Poe's "The Purloined Letter".

 

Not as bad as being at the local coin shop and the guy behind the counter telling the sweet old lady her silver peace dollars were still only worth face value. That nice young man bought an upwards of 50 from her. I started to say something but I was evil eyed stared out of the store. Crooks are everywhere...

 

Must have been the same guy my great aunt sold her coins to.

 

Wow. That story breaks my heart. There are many people in the coin world that pride themselves in that kind of transaction. "She should have read the book." :sniper:

Unfortunately, that sort of unethical behavior is more common than we would like to think. This sort of behavior makes coin dealers, unfortunately even the honest ones, look like real dirtbags.


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I would have said something.

I wouldn't have cared about the guy behind the counter.

 

I started to and was asked to leave. He followed me outside.

 

I know its a business but that thats a crook not a dealer, I wonder how he sleeps at night knowing he ripped people off like that.

Follow you? What was he going to do? You can say whatever you want, its called freedom of speech.

 

Well, he can tell you to leave since it's his property and store but yeah, freedom of speech allows you to say whatever you want and however loud you want on your way out so the lady can hear you clearly.

 

ugh, stories like this one make me want to throw up b/c of the stupidity!

 

How does one get "evil eyed stared" out of a store. F@#k that guy! Man up and tell the lady to take her coins else where and tell the guy behind the counter to get bent if he doesn't like it.

 

Authorities say that the simplest explanation is the most persuasive one.
"The obvious answer is that the crooks were idiots".

Lots of them out there.

 

I did the same thing @ the Hotel on Thursday. "ohio State" gold and silver buyers, we want your gold and silver, war relics, old guitars, broken gold, 10 and 15 cent comic books etc. I walked in and told them I had some questions for them. He said ok go sit in the waiting room. So I did. There were 8 or 9 people in there, and I made small talk with them. I was trying to pry out of them what they were selling. Some had broken jewelry, others had coins, one guy had a guitar. Well here comes "little spunky" as I will call him. He asked what he could do for me, and I proceeded to ask him questions.
Question # 1 -- What ya paying on 90 percent silver half dollars?
Answer: I would have to look at the coin...
My response: average circulated walking liberty...
Answer # 2 : at the most 5 or 6 bucks.

I could feel the blood start to pumping in my neck.....

Question # 2-- How about ASE'S ?
again--- " I have to look at the coin "
I said "ballpark range"
he said 22 to 25 dollars each.

The sides of my head where your temples are started throbbing about this time....

He then asks me who I am working for, and who sent me?

I couldnt contain myself...

Right there in front of all those people, I shouted " you are ripping these people off" , they were allready paying attention, because I debated his offering prices( I wasnt going to sale anything, I just wanted to know what they were paying) But when I said you are rippin these folks off, they really paid attention. I told them all that he was only offering about half of what their stuff was worth. I just politely left after that, and "little spunky" proceeded to follow me outside...

ranting and raving, " Im not ripping these people off" " they dont have to sell their coins" I politely said " I know, they dont have to, but the fact that they are ignorant as to what there coins are worth, and you not telling them what they are worth, and THEN offering them a price makes you a crook"

I called the open line for our local radio station yesterday, and tried to make people aware that those guys werent being fair at all....

Rant done

 

It reminds me of that episode of "it takes a thief" the ex thief takes a bunch of proof sets and starts breaking them open to get the coins. I couldn't believe it. The guy knows how to break into houses, but knows nothing about coins. It is always funny when people show how dumb they are on TV. It's one thing to make a point by breaking in to the house and showing the weakness of the home, but it's another thing to destroy somebodies collection. I guess the only upside is the guy was probably reimbursed and the house got a killer security system for free.

 

Yeah I just read about these idiots and I was gonna start a thread, lucky I looked around and came across this one. The good thing about stories like this is once again is shows that crime does not pay. It's good to see stories like this especially in today's economy.

 

One lucky guy!!!
Littleton owns & started CoinStar ,about 2009 or 2010 Littleton let folk buy CoinStar machines to put in store.but before that Littleton has worker empty each machine 1-2 time a week and still do.but if Littleton has made a pickup that guy SOL.:devil:someone would be buying them coins from Littleton

 

The funniest part of this story is that these coins were going to be left to the kid who stole them... he dumped his inheritance in a coinstar machine...

twerp.

 

crazy story, thanks for posting it