I wanted to share this. If you are interested in using NumisMaster.com, there is a deal going today. A VIP Club membership for half price. Regularly $50, for today it is $25. The membership includes: One-year (52 issues) U.S. subscription to Numismatic News (retail value $155.78) One-year of online access to NumisMaster.com with up-to-date pricing for tens of thousands of coins from around the world (retail value $79.95) Copy of the popular downloadable resource, U.S. Coin Digest Bullion Coinage PDF (retail value: $7.99) 10% off all purchases made through ShopNumisMaster.com for one year Plus, preferred access to special sales, early notification of new products at ShopNumisMaster.com, and exclusive benefits gained through partnership programs arranged by Krause Publications If this sounds good to you, you can follow this link. HERE I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in F+W Media or any other business entity. I just think this is a really good deal for my fellow CoinTalkers!
I've never found NumisMaster.com something I needed to pay for... NumisMaster.com already allows anyone to create an online account to do many things on the site without paying any fee. Does paying NumisMaster.com $79.95 let alone this discounted rate, get you anything more than what you can currently see online for free? In terms of certified coin market values, how is the NumisMaster.com price guide any better than NumisMedia FMV and the new NGC price guide, which are both free? Heritage Auctions accounts are free and you have free access to the Heritage Value Index, which is essentially the NumisMedia FMV through an HA portal. Also, registering an customer account at Krause Publications to shop their retail web site is free and allows you to subscribe to an e-newsletter (free) with all the same advanced promos and weekly updates linking to articles their writers post on NumisMaster, again, for free. Besides a wimpy 10% discount (I believe orders over $49 ship for free) all you are paying for in this offer is to receive their printed materials. Is that worth what they are asking? I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade and would love to hear how paid membership benefits those who do subscribe. These are just my observations and the questions I would ask before paying for this membership. For me, they offer too much for free already, so much so that it doesn't warrant the expense for most readers/collectors.
I'm not up on all these club memberships . I'm already a card carrying Collector Society member , an ANA member , a local club member , a TAMS member , and more. One can easily spend a small fortune with all these memberships.
Sorry for the confusion, coinman0456, its not a coin club, it is the VIP Club of NumisMaster.com. It seemed that my post was pretty explanitory as to what was included. I love NumisMaster, personally, and it surpasses the above websites because they don't cover foreign. NumisMaster, when you have the unlimited access, has darn near every coin ever made, photos of most of them, and fairly reliable market values for each and every one. I recommend it if you deal with very many foreign coins for values and ease of identification. Hope this helps!
But what about what one can already get for free from registering accounts with NumisMaster? What's the benefit of paid membership? Curious more than anything as they already give so much away for free.
I guess I've forgotten what the free account gets, but you get the price guides for everything. Also, something else I forgot is you can maintain an online inventory and the price guides update and will give an overall value for your collection. It makes for a really good collection management software. Fill me in on what the free account gets, cause I thought all you got was a photo and description, no values.
There are many things as mentioned above that come with basic free account registration. It may just be the 'values' and receiving printed versions of their publications that requires paid membership. I think everything else is pretty much the same and free. It is definitely decent for collection management for world coins, but that's free, apart from auto updated values.
Ok, thanks, that is good to know. Honestly, probably a paid membership isn't for everybody. There is no way I would ever pay full price, but this will be my second year at $25. For that price I like it.
So you don't overspend in the process of oversubscribing... A day later, but I thought I'd also add the following reminder for current ANA members, those also interested in Krause Publications and NumisMaster.com after reading this thread if you were considering signing up, the following from the ANA web site:
