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<p>[QUOTE="SmokeMonkey, post: 331367, member: 6459"]shop at home. their stuff is nice and real and they sell lots of slabbed stuff from NGC and PCGS but their prices are...NOT WITHIN THE REALM OF REASONABLE.</p><p><br /></p><p>and i laugh at the bullion being sold in slabs, like a ms-70 ASE going for 100 bucks. ok...if you're a slab ***** and insist on getting such an item because you really really really admire the artwork, ok fine. but to me its just bullion and yes its nice to look at but not worth paying more than 20 bucks for, PERIOD.</p><p><br /></p><p>they had nice looking morgans the other morning, a whole roll of them BUT...i know what they show and what you get arent the same thing. the slabbed stuff, sure, but everything else is a gamble.</p><p><br /></p><p>and their knife show is a riot, buy 15 bazillion knives in one lot for a mere 75 cents a piece! </p><p><br /></p><p>now i know this company and i know they dont sell jack unless they make a profit (and a steep one at that) and if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>i think my wife did the exact same thing. i didnt have the heart to tell her it was not worth it. but i do tell her very honestly about every other offer "yeah we can get that for a 1/4 of the price at (insert website name here) and at a better grade too."</p><p><br /></p><p>she generally leaves it up to me to make the judgement calls on this stuff. i just didnt know about the presidential dollar deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>speaking of offers...we got some for an offer for a 3 piece SBA slabbed set, 1980, supposedly graded MS-64 by some grading company called american alliance coin grading service (AACGS). and they want like 28 bucks for it. i loled and told her to trash it. they were also selling 5 proof dimes for like 20 bucks (newer roosevelts, a couple years old at best). i was offended by that one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SmokeMonkey, post: 331367, member: 6459"]shop at home. their stuff is nice and real and they sell lots of slabbed stuff from NGC and PCGS but their prices are...NOT WITHIN THE REALM OF REASONABLE. and i laugh at the bullion being sold in slabs, like a ms-70 ASE going for 100 bucks. ok...if you're a slab ***** and insist on getting such an item because you really really really admire the artwork, ok fine. but to me its just bullion and yes its nice to look at but not worth paying more than 20 bucks for, PERIOD. they had nice looking morgans the other morning, a whole roll of them BUT...i know what they show and what you get arent the same thing. the slabbed stuff, sure, but everything else is a gamble. and their knife show is a riot, buy 15 bazillion knives in one lot for a mere 75 cents a piece! now i know this company and i know they dont sell jack unless they make a profit (and a steep one at that) and if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. i think my wife did the exact same thing. i didnt have the heart to tell her it was not worth it. but i do tell her very honestly about every other offer "yeah we can get that for a 1/4 of the price at (insert website name here) and at a better grade too." she generally leaves it up to me to make the judgement calls on this stuff. i just didnt know about the presidential dollar deal. speaking of offers...we got some for an offer for a 3 piece SBA slabbed set, 1980, supposedly graded MS-64 by some grading company called american alliance coin grading service (AACGS). and they want like 28 bucks for it. i loled and told her to trash it. they were also selling 5 proof dimes for like 20 bucks (newer roosevelts, a couple years old at best). i was offended by that one.[/QUOTE]
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