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Good for you! I use my 99% rule with most of Coin TV. Yes, those 99% are over-priced, but there is that 1% that are actual good buys and sometimes "steals". But you have got to know your coins and the prevailing marketplace for the coin at that time. Looks like you hit that 1% and it paid off! Congrats! Thank you for sharing!

 

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Why are you bringing politics into this? A narrow view point is telling yourself you served your country when you were just a pawn for the rich and powerful. Unless you drafted, i don't view military service as self sacrifice. Many if not all join today for economic reasons, but rest assurred they like to wrap themself in the flag. I'm all for the draft, incidentally. I hate Littleton, like i hate flea market dealers charging inflated prices. That was my point (and also to get baseball riled up as he usually stalks my posts lol). No need for anything else, but we can digress if you wish.

 

Thanks for your comment. I must disagree however that "anyone who buys off of Coin TV is being taken..." I have purchased from them all, but always have my 99% rule. Meaning that 99% of what you see on Coin TV is likely overpriced or an outright rip-off & scam. But it's that 1% I wait for that is actually a good buy or the product (coin) is very unique in some way. I say this as a collector and small dealer and have made purchases that worked out very well. But you have to know your coins, buying trends in the market (as a dealer), and yes, be skeptical of all the Coin TV shows out there. Some are better than others, and I have reviewed 3 shows/networks thus far, and hope I gave an accurate assessment given my experience watching and shopping with each of them. And more reviews are on the way. I have no agenda and try to be balanced. Just hope you enjoy reading and others may learn from them.

 

I don't even know who you are other than someone that comes across uninformed and now that last comment was classless as well for feeling the need to try and grind an ax against the military on this weekend of all weekends.

 

Nope. I will disengage here. I don’t have the luxury of staying up all night posting uninformed and unwelcomed drivel. You feel free to exercise your right of free speech. I’ll simply exercise my right to use my ignore feature for the first time.

 

Don’t give him too hard of a time @baseball21

I appreciate our military fighting to preserve our rights for all Americans, including those who use them to make a horse’s ass out of themselves in public.

Ain’t the USA a great place?

 

Of course you appreciate it, since you buy every argument from fox news at face value. Maybe try educating yourself in real history and politics instead watching baseball.

 

When I want advice from something like you, I’ll ask for it. If you want to continue this discussion, feel free to IM me. And don’t hold anything back.

 

Not everyone who "served" in the military is a hero, folks, and the idea that we all must bow down to anyone simply claiming so is a bit much imo.

When younger I had the honor of getting to personally know a number of disabled WWI and WWII veterans who truly sacrificed, both men and women, black, white, and everything in between. The idea that someone who received just compensation and never saw the horrors of battle is somehow a hero equal to that of someone who survived the trenches in WWI is just asinine. We now live in a country where hundreds of thousands of Americans, who fought only because their home was invaded and suffered immeasurably to do so, are viewed as trash yet all others are the heroes of heroes even if they've truly sacrificed nothing?

I'm far from anti-military and those who've made selfless sacrifices for the greater good have my absolute respect. Those who've served honorably even if not in battle also have my respect. Randy has my respect, but respect is something individually earned and shouldn't be passed around like candy once was on Halloween. Just my most humble opinion, of course.

 

I like how you guys start things, then when i start running circles around you, you report me.

 

I will when you do.

 

No one ever said they were. But if you had actually read the thread and how it came up because Randy was getting chastised for using Littleton to get some coins by deployed you probably would have known that rant was unnecessary. We are all aware you can find bad apples in anything

 

You do remember the old saying about what happens when we assume, right? Thank you for again providing it correct.

 

It would be a good idea for all to get back to the topic. Reporting a post(s) is not a bad thing to do. It very often saves others from getting caught up in a problem discussion later and having even worse happen. Also please remember that different countries celebrate their version of memorial day, but not on this date, so they may be clueless as to it. And the jumping to recent politics was against the rules! Jim

 

In fact, Jim, we have our war dead/military holidays all screwed up compared to the rest of the world. The one we celebrate today has a genesis intimately tied to our own Civil War, the one in the 1860’s, not the one that breaks out here regularly.

 

Please let me know the next time you see a reasonably priced item, even JUST ONE ITEM, on even JUST ONE SHOW, and I’ll gladly show you where and why I think you’re wrong. But having looked at your profile, I think we’re pre-ordained to disagree violently, because you’re into modern 70’s. I’ve never BOUGHT even one 70 coin, but I’ve submitted quite a few raw that got that grade.

 

When buying coins (or anything else) keep this tidbit in mind; ''when a person with money meets a person with knowledge, at the transaction end, the person with the knowledge ends up with the money and the person with the money ends with the knowledge''.

 

Yes, on the Sell side I lean heavy on modern 70's. It's a big part of the hobby, and can be lucrative as well. For my own collection, I lean heavy on graded Morgan's in the highest grade I can attain them assuming of course they have great eye-appeal. Would I buy a graded Morgan from someone on TV? No. Because I am sure I could find an equal or better example elsewhere for much less money. Now let's talk Modern 70's. When watching anything on Coin TV, I have my dealer hat on. And despite your disbelief (and you're not alone in believing this I've come to find here on CoinTalk) that there are absolutely no good buys on Coin TV, I have found them, albeit rarely. That's the 1%. It could be a very low pop coin. It could be one that is rarely seen or even better, an exclusive. How about a coin with a label that is unique and/or an exclusive and at a price that is equal to common labels? Works for me! I am happy and my buyers are thrilled. I have many examples of such purchases I made through Coin TV over the years that worked out well for me the buyer, and as importantly, my buyers. You can choose to be a hater. I'm just trying to inform and educate where many new collectors begin...Coin TV. THanks for your perspective.

 

The problem I see with HSN is that the shopping channel has many good deals on an absolute plethora of items. My wife, for example, gets top-flight cosmetics from them at a fraction of the cost of department stores. She also gets a regular shipment of some items, a very nice convenience.

However, such is not the case with their coins. For a beginning collector, the presumption of value — which HSN has with tons of viewers — does NOT carry over to coins. In fact, it is the exact opposite in many cases.

Those who continue in coins probably will pick up at some point on the fact that HSN is a lousy place to buy. But how many continue to buy on the interpretation of the network’s trust factor?

I don’t argue that it’s not the responsibility of each collector to become educated about the hobby. I get that. But in the meantime, a lot of buyers are paying far too much and putting themselves or their heirs hopelessly and severely underwater. It’s a black eye on the hobby, pure and simple.

 

Well there you have it then. NONE OF THAT “works for me”. I care only about two things on any label on a coin in my collection - the grade and the company (and a little bit when it was graded). I do have a few “special labels”, but they are ALL souvenirs. I don’t even care about the grade on those. There are no “very low pop coins” on TV. If there would be, their prices would be equally extravagant. TV time is EXPENSIVE, and it ends up in a coin’s price, EVERY TIME. By the way, if modern 70’s are “a big part of the hobby”, just shoot me now. Not MY hobby, they ain’t.