One thing that blows my mind,folk will bid their pay ck away @ eBay.I sold their 10years+ heard so many times or someone die, Bank won't let my ck go thru yet etc!!! I just won't sell on eBay since their 2010 rules change. ???????Before Web internet and H.a <-> eBay What was way your got your coins????????????
Nothing Spock !thanks for asking !!! I was hoping to hear this -> What Did you do to collect coins before the internet + all the web based shops.
Sounds like me!!!! but at times a time zone + a phone did help but then Sat phones were made, I bet I owe GSA a few bucks calling in bids from south America etc.
The old-fashioned way (by definition): searching change, buying rolls at the bank, and (very, very rarely) going to a local coin show. My older brother subscribed to one of the coin magazines, and we both bought some stuff from the classified ads in the back. I have faint memories of coins being offered for, say, "30 cents silver plus SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope)". This would've been in the late 60s/early 70s. I was mostly out of the hobby from the late 70s until five or ten years ago. Part of what got me back into it was a couple of incidents at CoinStar machines and on CraigsList; eBay is largely responsible for sustaining my interest.
One of my good friends also collected coins and his dad worked for Thillen's Armored Car Service. Besides moving money between two clients, they would also go into industrial areas and cash paychecks for people on the spot. They had a lot of currency on hand to do this, and he was always on the lookout for us, going through change when traveling from one location to another.
well for me it was just a case of life happening There is no way to undo that so you make the best of what you can and move happily into the sunset. Everything that has a beginning has an end
