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<p>[QUOTE="green18, post: 1455958, member: 10103"]You were lucky. Not everyone who buys from these TV show salesmen will ever achieve any kind of worth for the products they have purchased. I refer to the poor sods who bought colorized or plated State Quarters sets. Those sets, down the road, will be worth no more than face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was lucky too. The eagles that I purchased from one of the shows have appreciated significantly in value, but what if silver prices had remained at that contemporary level? My purchase right now would be 'under water'. You state that "They have always delivered what they said they would IF you listened carefully." Well, I did listen very carefully to 'Bob' and he told me that ASE's were very shortly going to become unavailable and you had to get 'em now or you'd miss the boat. "If you snooze, you loose", he said. My sin was in not doing my homework. I found out later that I had paid more than double the value for my purchase. I did learn from this experience, and have done research on all of subsequent purchases and I don't 'get taken' near as often as I did when dealing with Bob. </p><p><br /></p><p>Watching coin shows on TV should come with the disclaimer "prices you pay for products may (will) not be readily reflected in the general coin market and you should not purchase for investment purposes".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="green18, post: 1455958, member: 10103"]You were lucky. Not everyone who buys from these TV show salesmen will ever achieve any kind of worth for the products they have purchased. I refer to the poor sods who bought colorized or plated State Quarters sets. Those sets, down the road, will be worth no more than face value. I was lucky too. The eagles that I purchased from one of the shows have appreciated significantly in value, but what if silver prices had remained at that contemporary level? My purchase right now would be 'under water'. You state that "They have always delivered what they said they would IF you listened carefully." Well, I did listen very carefully to 'Bob' and he told me that ASE's were very shortly going to become unavailable and you had to get 'em now or you'd miss the boat. "If you snooze, you loose", he said. My sin was in not doing my homework. I found out later that I had paid more than double the value for my purchase. I did learn from this experience, and have done research on all of subsequent purchases and I don't 'get taken' near as often as I did when dealing with Bob. Watching coin shows on TV should come with the disclaimer "prices you pay for products may (will) not be readily reflected in the general coin market and you should not purchase for investment purposes".[/QUOTE]
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