I just fininshed watching some coin shows that recorded by HSN. Never once in any of those shows did they state the mint was no longer going to produce satin finish coins. One I remember in particular was a roll of Native American Dollars. They did stress the fact they were satin finish and only available in the mint sets, but no mention about the end of this type finish. To me this is really sad they would state this in previous shows and sell thousands of dollars of satin finish coins claiming the mint was no longer going to produce these. They were also claiming the mint had a press release stating this, and gave the mint's reason as too costly to produce. I wish someone would bring some action against these people. I'm certainly no lawyer, but to make this claim citing a press release that doesn't exist has crossed the line for fraud to me. I hope a CT Member that is a lawyer can elaborate on this.
Whether the magilla about the satins is true or not, the Feds probably told 'em to shut their faces......
I think that they should issue a public retraction of those comments instead of just going silent on the issue. It is not like they can ever deny it, those taped shows are a matter of public record. I am still not convinced that they do not have a special arrangement with the Mint given the fact that they have graded coins within a day or two or three after coins are released to the public. TC
Well, I did send HSN an email asking them if they were going to offer refunds to all those people that bought satin finish coins based on their claim. I should have asked for them to make the press release they have that no one else has seen public. I don't often say things like this, but I would encourage every CT member to email them about all this. They sell way too many coins at premium prices to say or do anything that even approaches a "gray area".
I agree, nothings changed. The Feds said shuddup, if we tell you something. I say 50-50 chance of no more mint set satins. Mezack said it on 3 different programs.
