HSN Coin Collector Show Strikes again!

"Without her uninformed, overpaying actions, myself and my kids might not be interested right now in coin collecting, so in that regard I think it's a positive."

-I'm sure many people get into collecting this way, myself included, I used to get coins from my grandfather from time to time and never really got into them, but kept them...and he got them from Littleton, US Commemerative Gallery, etc. When we cleaned out his Apartment after he moved to a nursing facility due to his Alzheimers , we found tons of coins (and invoices for those coins) from these places, they just kept sending him stuff, quarters, presidential dollars, war time nickels, some morgans, etc, I think by then, he just put the coins in various places in his APT and just tossed the invoices, we found so many coins, it got me into collecting and now I have a pretty good collection that I will pass onto my daughter at some point (she is 4 now).

 

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all the coin shows are selling 2013 slabbed ASE's already. one show said that the actual coins will be available to the dealers next week and then they will be sending them in to be graded. they said that maybe by the 16-20 they will start shipping depending on if they have received them back from the TPG's. so they aren pre-sales without saying it.

 

Are there any Silver bullionist/coin collectors stupid enough to accept that?! Whoa.
Or is that the numismatic value (market) for pennies & nickels?

 

It was the coins real value versus what Littleton had charged for it.

 

You folks are assuming ANACS slabbed that 2010 or 2012 ASE and labeled it 2013. More likely they simply cracked a 2010 or 2012 ANACS slab, swapped in a label they had made up and resealed the slab. They do this every year. And if you had actually called them and ordered it you probably would have been informed of a "slight delay in shipping". The Mint tends to release the new ASE's during the first week of so and these folks have their shipment sent directly to ANACS for slabbing. They start receiving their brand new ANACS graded slabs within two to three days of when the mint releases them. (Believe me these big bulk orders go to the head of the line.)

 

@Conder101, agree, but it was the way they did it, hiding the date of the coin with the on screen graphics and not mentioning anything about delays or pre-sales, knowing the release schedule myself, knew they could not have had them on new years eve and to show a slabbed coin with 2013 and #X of 12,549 showed me they will do anything to sell a coin, which is fine, just own it.

 

It'd be funny if the '13 ASEs were very terribly struck and haphazardly handled, and none came back MS70. I know it won't be the case, but it'd still be interesting to see what they'd do.

 

He who is first out of the starting gate tends to do better. If they wait until they have them in hand they will find they have a much smaller market because the buyers have already purchased from the ones that didn't wait. People always want to be the first one to get something new, and they often pay a penalty for that desire. As for hiding the date of the coin with the graphics etc, what do you expect them to do? Letting people clearly see that it is a mock up holder would hurt their sales. It's called marketing. Do you also rail against fast food commercials because the sandwiches look nothing like what you actually receive when you order one? Does it bother you that the food shown on the commercials is actually completely inedible? Or do you just recognize it for the marketing it is and let it go allowing yourself to make an informed rational decision on lunch or the coin?

 

I wouldn't say it's inedible. They use real food in commercials, they just fancy it up so you can see all the ingredients and so it looks nicer.

[video=youtube;oSd0keSj2W8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8[/video]

 

The burgers are undercooked so much as to be inedible. They undercook them so they look juicier.

The rest of the burger is simply dressed towards the camera so you see every possible ingredient, but trust me you cannot eat the meat unless you wish to risk food poisoning. Oh, and also, the sesame seeds on the bun are glued on, so maybe you don't want to eat the bun either. They strip all sesame seeds off, then place them perfectly with a glue.

We sell to QSR's, and our PR agency prepared photos for us identical to how they do them for the QSR's.

 

Still seems technically edible to me, food poisoning and glue consumption not withstanding. But I catch your drift.

 

I haven't had a QP in years....now I'm hungry for one. LOL

 

I want to be a food stylist !:high5:

 

Another funny thing about it was that they are First Day of Issue and numbered (e.g. 2317 of 15,716),
and he was talking about how he had to buy x number of silver eagles to get that many perfect MS70 coins.

 

Dang, I thought they actually made the burgers carefully at commercial/photo shoots, but not THAT carefully

 

Yes I watched that show on New Year's Eve for as long as I could stand it. And it wasn't very long. It's always good for a laugh.

 

Tonight he has the ICG graded MS70 2013 Silver Eagle FDOI (Ltd Edition of 3,729).

 

Yep, and i think he has a 2010 in there...amazing...and comes with a priceless red oak presentation box