Another Folder Completed

THAT'S how they get ya!

 

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But they didn’t have all those tadpoles.

 

@John Burgess - thanks for the link!

I honestly don't know how to bring the price down to $6! Been looking to manufacture world coin albums in similar or the premium archive quality but the price!!!

 

These guys, like Whitman and Dansco, they do many other things besides the albums and folders, even book manufacture, so it's a side gig type thing as a time filler to make some extra bucks over the slow periods I think since they have all the equipment and materials. At least that's how I understand it.

I'd think you'd need to come up with something new or different, I don't think you can compete with what already exists. Especially considering they own the machines have the materials laying around, and have the employees that need to fill entire shifts doing something between their normal jobs of book manufacture.

 

Good advice John. I am not planning to replicate an existing product. I asked for a price to give me an idea of what the market is like.

I'm more interested to see if I can revive some of the premium world coin type set albums such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany etc which were last manufactured in 1960s. Prices are a bit wild as I've seen 100 - 200 usd for a used one!

 

Ah got ya now. If you were to do something like that I'd say go archival and charge a higher price for higher quality. Most of the world coin folders and albums are of poor quality material or even incomplete for what exists in the date ranges.

Dansco albums are like $40, caps albums are like $30-$50and then you got to buy the coin capsules also.
And if the old junk (I say junk because the materials in the old stuff was terrible) is selling for $100-$200, no reason a quality new product couldn't sell at the low end at least if it meets and exceeds the collectors desires and needs.

 

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I have 4 of the quarter albums, been putting quarters in them for years now, these albums give the coins a beautiful tone if left alone in them for a few years.

 

Buy them from hobby lobby and save a couple bucks and the shipping! When they have the 50% off one item coupon it's clutch.
Also gonna say I've had near zero toning from the Whitman old school folders with copyrights in the 40s and 50s. I've got coins in them for 30+ years now and nothings changed and I'm in high humidity south Florida and a smoker. Although my coins are in a spot I don't smoke in. Anyways, I like toning and my mint sets that are in OgP are all doing their things. Just saying those folders don't seem to be doing anything to the coins.