Being a PCGS Collectors Club Member (that has trouble accessing any PCGS sites due to CAPTCHA Code problems but that's for another thread), I received the following email this morning: It looks pretty good until you get to the fine print which basically states: "If your we don't agree with the grade on the competitor's slab, it'll only cost you $10 but if it does, it's going to cost you regular submission fees". Is that a fair summary?
I can understand where you're coming from but it really only saves you if your coins do not crossover. Right? I suppose a follow up question might be, if I send in a Kennedy Half Dollar from 1971 and it crosses over, do I get charged the $16 Modern fee, the $20 Economy fee or do I cough up the $32 Regular fee?
Very misleading. I was thinking it was a great deal, until that part. Kinda like how ebay usually says "new lowest selling fees ever!", then in fine print says that they lower the insertion fee by a dime, and jack up the final value fee by about 10%.
That PCGS Ad is misleading. I think when I run out of coins to buy, I will reholder all my coins in NGC scratch-resistant holders if and when NGC ever runs a legit re-slab special.
So what's misleading about it? Nothing that is stated is incorrect. Nothing that is unstated applies. The fact that some don't bother to actually read an ad before buying doesn't make an ad misleading...it makes the buyer lazy.
Good point. I found the "$10 Crossover Fee Special" misleading. By looking at the ad it implies $10 to crossover not $10 only if it fails to cross and it seems to me that is the objective of ad, unless I'm misunderstanding. And yes, to not read the whole ad and commit to the special, only later to find out the submitter owes more money than expected is lazy. I still find the ad misleading.
The part that is misleading is the multiple places it's promoting $10 as the price, when infact that is NOT the price of the crossed coins, that is the price of the failed coins. Who said anything about people being lazy and not reading the fine print? I'm sure most people read down to that line, and the reaction is DISAPPOINTMENT. Why, because the ad is misleading!!!
No Duh! I remember one Dodge Dealer in Denver Colorado that advertised on TV, push pull or tow any TRADE IN and we'll give you $5,000 towards the purchase of a new Dodge! Every freaking car on the lot had an additional Dealer Markup, over and above the Window Sticker Price, of.................yep, $5,000!
Which is EXACTLY what the ad says. So, once again, what's misleading? Nowhere does is say that the 10 dollar fee is for coins which cross. The only way to be mislead is to only read the headline rather than read the entire ad...thus, laziness.
Would it be wrong to assume that since it's advertising for "crossovers" that the reader would expect that it means "crossovers"? As a quick example, the email "Subject" reads: PCGS Crossover Special – Only $10 That right there leads the view to "believe" that a crossover is only going to cost $10 which is the entire point of the thread.
I have been wondering if a peel and stick abrasion resistant plastic like that used on cell phones and other displays die cut to fit slabs would be accepted on resell. There is one that has a synthetic diamond coating that should stay clear for a very long time.
Never thought of it, but kinda great idea. You would need to put it in right after slabbing to keep in pristine, so coins that have passed from collector to collector would be less ideal candidates. The scratch-resistant NGC slabs seem alot better than the normal PCGS and NCG slabs, but I've only ever got one coin slabbed in one, and I didnt want to test exactly how scratch resistant it is. You can tell them apart by how "slippery" the special slabs are.
