Ebay Slabs

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Aunduril, Nov 4, 2018.

  1. JeffC

    JeffC Go explore something and think a happy thought!

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  3. JeffC

    JeffC Go explore something and think a happy thought!

    You can also get them from Littleton at $6.95 for a pack of 5, which works out to be cheaper than the ebay link.
     
  4. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    I do get those, the "OWL" coins look better in them. 2016 OWL BW.jpg
     
  5. Aunduril

    Aunduril Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the info, but the reason I was looking at the others was for the white background. The coins I would be putting in there would look better in the white vs. black.
     
  6. JeffC

    JeffC Go explore something and think a happy thought!

    Wow - they have 'em in Octagonal shapes? They look really cool.
     
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  7. LA_Geezer

    LA_Geezer Well-Known Member

    I didn't want to expose myself that much but...

    I moved to Louisiana almost 40 years ago. Prior to that, my career in academic publishing had me coming here to visit potential authors at some of the colleges here. Having my first experience with boiled crawfish then, I soon realized why these little mud bugs are so popular here, and I soon volunteered to visit here regularly.

    Some time after I had moved here—maybe ~20 years ago—Chinese crayfish started appearing in local grocery stores. Restaurants jumped on the bandwagon, too, since the cost of these foreign critters was and still is such a bargain when compared to locally harvested crawfish. Of course, the Chinese stuff carried names familiar to native Louisianians, like Boudreaux's or Fontenot's. Soon after, news items started appearing on radio and TV news that reported the local seafood industry was suffering as a result of the drop in the commerce.

    How can you blame your average customer, though? He/she walks up to the cooler and sees one package priced at $15.95 with another sitting right beside it for about a third of the price. We're not taking about brand loyalty here, most native shoppers know that the best crawfish come from an area in southwest Louisiana, so, if anyone looks, they're checking packages to see where in Louisiana the packer is located. BUT, as it turns out, the Chinese have thought of that, too: they've established their own packing plants in that area of Acadia; if you don't check for specificity of origin, you lose. It's not that the sewers in China are any more unhealthy than the ditches around here, but it is that if I were to buy these Chinese imposter crayfish, I am affecting my neighbors' ability to earn a living.

    Sorry for the rant, but this thread isn't about coins anyway, it's about a cheap product from China. No telling whether that product passes muster, it's more that I live here and my neighbors get preference over someone thousands of miles away.
     
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  8. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    No offence taken.
    No but they fit just nice.
     
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