I was really misguided about the fun of collecting coins. According to Littleton, the fun way to collect presidential dollars is by buying them attached to stuffed bears. Are there grading standards for stuffed animals? Does NGC make bear slabs? 2007 Presidential Dollar Bears - the fun, unique way to collect the NEW dollar series! $49.00 Now $41.65
Most coins from Littleton seem to be overpriced, this kind of stuff only hurts their reputation, I think. I believe they even advertise in major newspapers, no?
I agree with you. Sure, they may run a special now and then but their everyday prices are insane. They have advertisments in our local newspaper every weekend in the coupon section. Yea, you can order those for a resonable price but then you get an envelope in the mail with 4 or 5 coins, maybe a common wheatie, a silver war nickel, a worn Merc dime and maybe a Silver Eagle. All of this for close to $40 dollars. This is what I got after I joined their Silver Dollar program once. I have absolutely no interest in spending $40 dollars for maybe $25 dollars worth of coins. A total waste of my time and money. Of course, this is just my opinion.
I did the coins in the mail thing, but I only did it because I thought it would be fun to see some new coins, if not maybe buy some of them if the prices were reasonable. They weren't, and not only that, I had to pay the shipping back to them. The only time I can see it being profitable is if they advertise a free coin with the first shipment, with which, for me at least, came with free shipping back. I made sure they knew that I was unhappy when I had to pay to ship it back.:loud:
Everyone is missing the point on this. The idea is to get the 1-6 year old demographic interested, thus building the foundation for a future generation of collectors. Of stuffed bears, at least. Hopefully the coins are well attached so that they can't be torn off and swallowed.
I suppose if I had a bunch of them to sell, I'd be telling you the same thing. Yes, but they're not "market acceptible". Don't doubt for a minute that they wouldn't, if they thought there was a big enough market.
