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

Just as well. The stock certificates come with real live fleas on them. Now you know...

 

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Careful with that, he may just be selling his BVD's.

 

Meh. I know how to kill fleas. Figuring out how to interpret Apple's or GE's corporate strategy is a lot tougher...

 

"Make insanely great products, charge out the wazoo for them, and don't make your customer a 'product' by monetizing his privacy for blood money from advertisers. Pay advertisers, don't invoice them." Next?

 

"Keep changing the company's core mission so no one knows what the heck is going on."

 

Not that you asked, but "Google's"

"Confuse everyone about what you're up to by adopting a blatant bald-faced lie as your motto. Say 'Don't be evil' while piling evil upon evil onto your customers' lives by not just 'compromising' your customers' privacy and security, but aggressively destroying both systematically. Wall Street won't notice. They may even like it. Keep repeating 'Our smartphone's cheaper' and Americanus Moronicus will beat a path to, well, a telecom's door."

 

If you want to see more ridiculous listings, check out Sullivan Numismatics. Look at these three listings. You'd think for these prices they were made of moon rock.

 

Those listings are almost enough to make me wish I had a job at the mint.

And fewer principles.

 

Well, "underground," however you want to say it, these groups that finally got their civil rights respected for the first time in their lives took it from there. We wanted equality for minorities and women, and we got it for them. In fact, some of us died for it for them. The trouble is, once those forces that rallied us and got what they wanted out of us were equal, they wanted more. I won't get political, but it was those forces that mobilized us, that messed everything up. We fools weren't part of that, Kurt. It was the forces behind my generation that messed everything up, because just being equal, like everybody else, wasn't good enough for them. And it still isn't.

 

I love Sullivan Numismatics. I have purchased excellent Mint Errors from them. The listings you have shown are true and very rare Errors. Almost unique. Believe it or not I agree somewhat with the prices.

 

Even $150 for slabbed blank 1943 steel cents? I don't even know where to look to see if that is reasonable

 

Seems like a good price to me.. Believe me when I say that after almost 31 years of collecting errors I can put a value on most of them.

 

A '64 Peace Dollar.... Cool!

 

Thats pink floyd

 

Just in case you didn't know... Jon Sullivan is the owner of Sullivan Numismatics and also a Consulting Editor for the error-ref website
He is a professional Mint Error attributor. The listings that I posted are from people who know nothing about Mint Errors


Here is his website - https://sullivannumismatics.com/

and http://www.error-ref.com/

 

I can't argue his credentials and I know who he is. But, just because someone has a good reputation in this esoteric field, it doesn't mean a critic of some of his prices are to be labeled as undignified ruffians. Sometimes, it can be better to step away and think more like an average customer. I know my comment wasn't the most educated (no disagreement there). But $7,000 for an off-center IKE? Even if someone had the money, why would they pay that much for that?

 

It is more than an off center Ike. It was struck on a Philippine peso planchet and is probably one of a kind. I wouldn't buy it because I'm not into collecting those things but if I were, the price may not be far out of line. Just saying...

 

I guess I just don't understand how they would even begin to assess its value. For example, why $7,000 and not $100,000 if it is a one of a kind? Or $1 million for that matter? But then again, why not $2,500? Unless it goes up for auction, you wouldn't really know. I totally get supply and demand. I understand it is more difficult to assess and appraise varieties. It just seems like those prices are a bit exorbitant. And some of his errors that I see at shows are 30-40% less. A 90% off center SBA MS65 with the last two digits of the date showing in an NGC slab was offered for $75. It was still there when they blew the horn to end the show after 2 days.