Coins scotch taped by ebay seller

Speedy's right - those coins need a quick acetone bath. Just remember, use the pure stuff from a paint or hardware store, not nail polish remover with lots of additives. After a quick dip in the acetone, rinse in deionized or distilled water, and allow to air dry on a soft cloth; then do it again with fresh acetone and water, and they'll be as good as they were before your seller packed them.

(I do the same thing Eagle Eye suggests, with junk mail addressed to my dear departed Mother, who passed on 16 years ago, but it still keeps coming. )

 

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Quite a few years ago I read of a case where somebody was putting advertising postcards on people’s windshields in a parking lot. The postcards were metered so the recipient could fill in their name and address and mail them to the advertiser to get additional information on whatever the advertised product was.

Some folks, miffed at having this unsolicited “junk” mail stuck under their windshield wipers, naturally mailed them back blank. The advertiser was incensed, and threatened to take legal action against anyone who mailed them back blank.

I was thinking that the appropriate response, then, was to fill in fictitious names and addresses and mail them back. That would meet the advertiser’s “requirement” that they not be mailed back blank, and would also waste even more of the advertiser’s time and resources trying to run down false leads.

Moral: don’t put your trash on my windshield !

 

ALL RIGHT BAcchus!

 

I was just kidding, of course. Besides the obvious issue of having to pay before you even receive the coins (and thus wouldn’t even know they were going to be taped), EagleEyed took the correct approach by understanding that the seller was just uninformed and not being malicious.

 

I've done the mailing junk mail back a little differently, it takes a little extra time, but hey, I feel better when all's said and done. I let the junk mail collect, open a bunch of it at once, remove all references to my name and/or address, then stick the junk mail into different reply envelopes. I.E. capitol one gets American Express junk mail, American Express gets lawn service junk mail, etc.

EagleEyed - I jumped into this thread a bit late, but I agree with others, no use blasting the inexperienced. If they had billed themselves as coins dealers, it might be different, but most folks just don't know.

 

You could tape the envelope to a brick, that should raise the postage cost a bit.