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Message:: [QUOTE="Silver Striker, post: 182197, member: 1745"]Well, I really believe that these TV shop at home companies should not be in the collectibles business.  They are not preying on the collectors they ARE on the elderly and infirmed.  Most of whom find themselves sitting in fromt of the TV listening to all this HYPE.  I agree they should know better but they are lonely and mostly have no one to guide them on their purchases for the most part.  Who here would be purchasing these items?  Anyone here even thinking about pruchasing this Coin Vault 20th anniversary MS70 set? I recently went to visit my aunt and she and two elderly neighbors had been purchasing the statehood quarter and silver dollar collections from "Postal Commemorative Society".   She told me that she had been paying $50 per coin for the silver dollars.  Each holder contains one coin along with a cancelled stamp.  I am not a coin collector per se, but I cannot believe that these coins are worth $50 each in their condition.  My aunt and her neighbors were also purchasing the "Postal Commemorative Society" Statehood Quarters Collection that contain a P and D mint mark quarter on each page and has from 2 to 4 U.S. mint stamps on the reverse of the page. Each page cost them $16.95.  I now have these sets and there are 32 different silver dollars and 25 pages of the statehood quarters.  So in effect she's paid $1600 for the silver dollars and $423.75 for the state quarters.  While the coin panels look nice, I seriously doubt the true value of them with the coins and stamps. I believe I have found the parent company that distributes this stuff but their web pages don't show how to obtain them or contact their distributors. <a href="http://www.mbi-inc.com/stamps.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mbi-inc.com/stamps.asp" rel="nofollow">MBI</a> I don't know how they found the supplier.  I don't locate them on the internet and have not seen them on the TV shopping shows.  I imagine that it might have been from a magazine.  I spoke with my aunt again and she doesn't remember.  Her neighbor is still getting her quarter collection and hopefully I will get the name and address of the distributor.  I am hoping it's not a TV vendor, but looking around my aunt's home we found ton's of stuff she's been buying from the likes of HSN and QVC. It would be nice if the 24 hour a day NEWS channels would run a routine buyer awareness program to these TV Shopping channels especially regarding collectibles to help these folks who sit in front of their TV's most of the day. While at my aunt's home, my sister and I warned here to avoid these collectibles on TV and to start checking out prices at the local level on household items and such.  We had our notebook computers and showed her some price comparisons of some of the items she had purchased and how even Wal-Mart, Sears, Target, K-Mart, Kohls and Costco had the identical items at cheaper prices even after shipping and taxes were applied.  I'll admit that I rarely visited my aunt but now I'll be checking in on her more often, along with all my other aunts and uncles and make some inquires as to their using TV shopping channels to make purchases. I am glad I have access to this forum and others so that I've been able to learn some great information regarding coins and grading.  Too bad everyone doesn't have access.  BTW, my next visit to my aunt's home will bring here my old notebook computer and free internet access and some training on how to use the internet.[/QUOTE]

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