3 Really Ridiculous and Very Sad Ebay "Mint Error" listings

As I may have indicated earlier, I've only ever been to Roots once, and I think I was maybe 6 or 7. Green Dragon has (most Fridays) maybe 3-4 dealers and a live auction, all with legit, if somewhat overpriced (the dealers, not the auction), material. They MAINLY hawk overpriced ASE's, because my "plain people" former neighbors have STILL never seen a silver coin they won't overpay for.

 

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You a stockholder in eBay's parent company, or what?

 

Would it surprise you to know I've never owned a Who album in my life, and that was entirely on purpose? I made it halfway through and turned it off. I can't make out the lyrics, and then I realized I don't care.

To me, the Who are tiny little creatures that only Horton heard, and from whom the Grinch stole Christmas.

 

So you're not a pinball wizard then

 

You're quite right of course. I used the "call anything an error", so as to at least draw some sort of line between the first two examples and the last, which was so blatantly fraudulent, in what I believe to be in a true legal sense. It would be nice if the definitions used to make a common language that all real collectors can use to interact, would not be violated . . . but I guess in this day and age anything goes in the pursuit of a buck.

 

No, I'm half surprised that Eddie didn't offer up something that went, "We don't need no education...", because that would be apropos to my present rant.

I've made no secret of the fact that I grew up as a counter-counter-counter-counter-culturalist, avoiding any and all behaviors "expected" of my generation to the maximum extent possible. And as I learned new ways to be opposite of everyone else my age, I attempted to adopt them, too.

 

I don't blame you, and there were a lot who felt like you. We were fools. Because that's what it took. You look at all the good that's ever come into this cockeyed world, that's how it came in, through fools who didn't quit.

 

You should do voiceovers for Apple Corporation "Here's to the crazy ones" ads. The copy was written by Steve Jobs himself. If you ever get the chance to hear him doing it, rather than the regular Richard Dreyfuss version, do it.

 

I can't agree more and could be considered guilty of the same behavior. Adding to your point, we have grown accustomed to force feeding others our litany of woes rather than finding reasonable solutions for all those involved. Society has gotten so used to having someone else solve a problem for them, that being "dumbed down" is only half of the problem, the other, just plain 'ol laziness. Honestly, even being new here, I see it in some of the threads posted on this forum and can completely understand why the more seasoned collectors get frustrated .

 

Are the 1909-S VBD minted that way as well?

 

Don't knock Pink Floyd!

 

Which way is that?

 

Never had one of their albums either.

 

At bottom, Kurt, it's just like the song says, we didn't take it when society put people down. What minorities and women did with their equality after we brought it in for them is laid at their foot, not ours.

 

Ooh, kinda harsh, ain't it? "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition", or Weinstein, or homicidal cops huffing aerosolized testosterone. The Boomer generation can rightly take considerable credit for breaking down de jure inequality, but it just went underground.

 

I'm more into CCR myself

 

Eddie, I hear you, and I believe you're sincere, but people like my sister, an unreconstructable hyper-"b word", donned the vestments of the true social change agents, and demands TO THIS DAY the fruits of their labors, but contributed and CONTINUES to contribute nothing more than a "reference platform" for unbearable whining. Annnnnd she burned more weed than a strip mall developer.

One of her daughters turned out okay, but the younger one is ten times the moron her mom is. She is a "professional educator" by trade. Any school district that employs her should have to pay ME taxes.

I raised a COMPLETELY different kind of kid. When my son joined me for HIS first ANA summer convention, Boston 2010, guess what he wanted to do on our one "free" night. Keep in mind, he was 15. We went down to Harvard Square, took in a wee bit o' street concert, and spent the rest of the night in the Harvard University book store, perusing the psychology and law sections.

 

I wondered if the labeled VBD coins are minted VBD instead of the correct VDB.

 

Not any more, as of last Thursday.

I still hold no position in any flea-market companies, as far as I know.

 

I'd be tempted to get one if they did. Not tempted enough to contribute to this guy's bottom line, though, nor the bottom line of the "offshore supplier" where he most likely buys them for a dollar or two each.