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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bromac4, post: 11202, member: 663&quot;]My experience with coins on TV is with our Shopping Channel here in Canada. There is a coin dealer from the Toronto area who comes to TSC every couple of months.I sometimes sit in front of the&nbsp; TV and yell at them - my family and friends ask me why I watch if I get so upset. My answer is that I love to look at the coins.</p><p>The thing they do that bothers me the most is that their information is often not exactly untrue but grossly misleading.The best example,I think involves what The Royal Canadian Mint calls &quot;Prestige Proof sets&quot;. These sets have been issued since 1971 and have been greatly improved in both quality and presentation over the years. A current issue prestige set sells for about $80.00. Here is what they do: they assemble a group of these sets most of them going back to the earlier years and sell them for a price that amounts to about $50.00 each. You are then led to believe that you are getting an $80.00 value for $50.00. What they don&#039;t tell you is that the issue price in the 70&#039;s was from $12.00 to $18.00 and that many of the earlier sets are actually selling at below issue price.</p><p>I asked a coin dealer what he&nbsp; thought of this and he said it actually helped him because his prices were so much better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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