I received a coin from heritage today. I tried to peel off their inventory label real slow, and it took some of the NGC hologram off with it! Should i even attempt to get heritage to pay up for a re-slab...
Just bring it to the next show that has a NGC booth and have it reslabbed. I think it is only about 5 bucks or so. It would cost you more in postage to send it in. I hate those labels, I have voiced my disapproval of them over and over to them.
Closest NGC booth would probably be summer FUN which would cost more in gas than shipping...some times i wonder WHY stick the fricken label over the hologram....
I use Goo-Gone, $6 at Wal-Mart. Let it soak into the label for at least 3 minutes before peeling the corners back with your fingernail, then rinse slab with damp towel to remove residue and dry with a paper towel. So far, no ill effects to the slabs or what's inside.
Where else would you like them to put the label ? You can't cover the coin, and you can't cover the grade. Over the hologram is about the only place there is.
Hunter, labels on slabs are a necessary and unavoidable evil. Dealers have to have some way to code the coins they sell.
Ultimately what matters is the coin. If you want to give Heritage a "rotfwl" moment, call and ask to speak with someone in charge and see if they will do that for you....Good luck!!! Reholdering is cheaper with NGC than PCGS and faster. Do you really think the next owner of that coin will refuse if there is a little damage to the hologram?
Good luck. I have tried to get companies to be responsible on much larger monetary issues and generally they take their sweet time doing anything.
I have to ask "Why do they need to put a label on them at all?" There's already a bar code on the slab. Use a barcode reader to read the barcode, and then add the coin to their inventory using NGC's unique ID. If they do that, they'd also have the added advantage of being able to easily reference information from NGC's web site as well. This is the 21st century and people are still damaging stuff by sticking hand written labels on things that already have a barcode? Anyone else see the lunacy in that?
Not everybody has bar code readers. Dealers put stickers and labels on coins so when somebody ask about the coin they can pick it up, look at their code, and answer the customer's questions. And it is much faster and easier than getting out a bar code reader and then accessing a computer to look up the info. People use what works and what works fast and easy - not what works slow and difficult.
Indeed. But we're not talking about "everybody", we're talking about Heritage: "The World's #1 Numismatic Dealer & Auctioneer". I think they not only have the resources to get out of the 20th century, but automating their inventory could quite possibly save them some serious coin.
