I just saw this.. I called FAST.. Gone!!! Dang!!! The Guy who answered was elderly.. Said he was sure what he had.. but they all went fast.. AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! CC Morgans!!! AT MELT!!! What!!! I am looking on CL more often!!!! http://boise.craigslist.org/clt/1573914814.html
I bet they went fast. Sounds like he knew what he had but did not want to be bothered to figure out what premium to charge. Maybe he purchased when silver was around $5/ounce. Oh well, next time you will get them. TC
Man That just kills me!! Nice guy.. we chatted for a few. but he kills me!!! With this one where I had the $$ to the other Thread day before yesterday on the 1853 Counterfeiting book.. where I didn't have the $$.. ( Sold for 700Something .. worth 30K!!! ) BAD WEEK!!
" have Silver dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes plus a miscellaneous round or two. Some are collectible (I know there are Carson City and New Orleans silver dollars that are worth extra and there are some uncirculated coins) but I paid spot for them and I want to sell them the same way. I will sell at the melt down price listed at coinflation.com on the day of the sale. Call for total numbers of each coin. 208-989-2600 " Uh huh.
Well He seemed like a nice guy .. I didn't see the coins.. Would not have been fooled.. I can hear a Silver dime from a mile away.. LOL I am in Idaho.. I know that you guys don't understand how someone could sell something like this.. But if you lived here you would know.. This is the Second time here I have been late to one of these.. I have bought stuff at auction here and turned it around the SAME DAY for 5x what I paid.. Idaho is BACKWARDS.. I am not from here.. So.. Shhhh.. I don't think they know how backwards they are.. I am making out like a bandit .. well sometimes.. One of my banks here had a guy bring in 100 in Morgans for Face.. ( Stolen I bet ) I personally gone into Banks for Halves and Got nearly 200.00 All Silver.. ( Who would turn that in.. Potato Head! ).. Yard Sales here can be great too..
For craigslist, you have to be extremely lucky and find the ad seconds after it lists, or be one of the people that scour craigslist every 5 minutes for key phrased listings. I only got lucky on craigslist twice...once I found my neighbor a like new weber smokey mountain cooker ($250 value) for $45 and for myself a new weber 22" one-touch silver kettle grill for $10. Nothing with coins though. -LTB
CT member Erin (Aggiecollector) told me he saw 2 rolls of 40% Kennedys for $20 each in the Greensheet. He called and they were gone. Then, I went to my coin club meeting last Monday and a friend of mine there tells me that he just purchased a roll of 40% Kennedys for 20 bucks from the Greensheet. LOL....he saw the add before Erin and got it. Here's the funny part, when he went to get them, the guy had already sold one of the two rolls. If you knew that these were way underpriced, why would you only buy one of them....
I think you guys missed my earlier post. A Craigslist add like that could be a good way of pulling a scam. Get a bunch of those unmarked counterfeits from China, list them selling at melt. Mention the CC's in passing, or maybe a seated dollar or trade dollar etc. You would probably get a bunch of suckers calling wanting to buy them. And you can sell them to EACH of them. Chinese pot metal dollars for silver melt. Sure some will probably catch on in which case you play dumb like you didn't know, and then just move on to the next sucker. Don't laugh, I bet it would work and work well. If I wasn't honest, I'd be rich.
I agree. I would create a grading company slap change into it and sell it on the bay - along with some unsearched rolls. Never used craigslist and never plan on it. I am sure some good deals are there, but not worth the risk to me.
Honesty is a form of Health I think Honesty is a form of Health. Some want to leave the most behind after they have exhausted all their other options. But does it make it a better place or is is just now a better place because you left it?
I agree with you on this one. I saw your earlier post and thought the same. Some people are completely unable to use any sense of skepticism when it comes to innocent little old people looking to dump stuff cheap. It never occurs to anyone that there's some old people just as rotten as a punk kid trying to rip you off. Con men are of all ages. To assume an add like this with no high quality pics would be real every time is just looking to throw money away, considering the millions of fakes that are in this country. And people that think they couldn't be fooled, actually could be fooled considering some of the fakes are made very well with the proper metal content. If they can melt a common Morgan and make a believable CC worth $200, why bother with pot metal? It's happening every day in China.
If the guy knew to go to coinflation for the current spot price, he knew enough to figure out what the carsons are worth and not sell them at spot
That tickled me, practically everyone wants to leave the world a better place, otoh I read once that Tiberius appointed Caligula emperor because he knew the character of the man and felt that he would be fondly remembered in comparison to his successor.
