What do you call this

My coin videos are accurate! i don't quote prices or anything else. i just show what I find.

 

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Maybe you can help me understand something (but I'm 62, so maybe not) - what is the point of making "videos"? I simply don't get the appeal.

I get books, I even get still photos. But videos for just anything? Why? A video puts YOU in charge of how long I get to look at something, when who SHOULD BE in charge is ME!

 

So you're 62, just a young whipper snapper! I'm 71 and I taught myself how to make videos this year on an antique laptop because I wanted to share the errors I found with other coin collectors who don't have friends. Compassion for others helps too. Who knows maybe I will supplement my SS income somehow.Maybe I should be like most of the other coin videos and just publish other peoples pictures illegally. Please feel free to ask any further questions you like.

 

I, personally, don't watch coin videos. I value a close-up, focused still picture of a coin. I am not sure why I would want to watch a video?

 

Do you all really think that a book showing the coins I have collected would be more worthwhile than a video?
Who would buy a book showing raw circulated error coins?

 

You mean I can't get rich by selling my two 1961 red ungraded cents or the 1961 D's ?

 

With the fascination among newbs about errors and "errors which are not", maybe more than you'd think.

 

Punctuation will help break up those long sentences. It gets hard sometimes to seperate your ideas.

 

So much more fun to put in punctuation at the first opportunity and see if it makes sense. If it does, that was probably it.

"I have a roll of these. I opened at the touch. It feels sank. In looking it up they call it a borderline. Is this worth keeping and selling?"

Makes perfect sense. He has a number of these and they are in a roll that pretty much self-opens, since he just had to touch it to open the roll. They feel sank, so they must be kind of mushy or strange, maybe they have some kind of weird goop on them. He checked it out, and they are called borderline. He wants to know if borderlines are worth keeping and selling.

I would say yes, in some cases borderlines are worth keeping and selling, but not too many sank ones should be. I am not yet aware of any borderline catalog or such, so perhaps value might just have to be determined on a case by case basis. I would think real rarities or silver might find a buyer.

Hope that clears things up.

 

I once felt "sank". A little antibiotic cleared that right up. Maybe I could have floated had I found a piece of cork or part of a surfboard.

 

I wonder if the op means "incuse" rather than "sank".

 

Well what else are you going to do with all those Zincolns?

Who would watch a video? I've tried watching a few of the videos on youtube about coins they are almost universally poor quality and most of the ones I have seen are full of bad information.

And I'd rather see raw errors than slabbed ones, the slabs tend to interfere with what you are trying to see.

 

are you the maker of said youtube videos?

 

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I personally do not look at the videos maybe sometimes when I'm on YouTube but not that often. If you haven't figured it out on CT there's a lot of people that like to put other members down.

If I may make a suggestion take one a your videos and take some snapshots of the error. Post them here on CT and see what the same members have to say about it.

And if you still have that same coin take some still shots of your coin. I know sometimes when you take snapshots from videos you do not get a clear photo.

Since I personally have not seen one of your videos please post the link
PS I'm the same age as V. Kurt Bellman There's an acquaintance here that occasionally comes into the restaurant for breakfast, and he considers 62 being a young pup as the same as you. And he also considers 71 not quite there yet. And this man has earned the right to say that because he's 107 years old and still drives around in his good old Ford pickup. USMC60

 

...and yet I still can't imagine going to YouTube videos for serious information purposes.

 

Maybe I need to change that... Take up the hobby of actually providing good coin info on YouTube vids. So much there is done by people who are giving wrong info or are just ill-informed and don't want to admit it.

 

... and THAT is the biggest unresolved problem of the "democratization" of information on the Internet. The gatekeeper role has been abandoned and we get massive amounts of crap.

I hear that Apple is thinking of bringing back the YouTube app as a default on iOS, and that idea is making me very sad. It disappeared in iOS7, I think, and it has stayed gone, and I liked things that way.

 

Kurt your alternative is eBay lol Or better yet ask for photos of what you're looking for example do a Google search for coins photos with rim burrs. I counted 25 photos in that array I personally would not be considered a rim burr. But that's only my opinion for what it's worth.

 

At least with eBay, I can decide for myself how long I want to look at something (often not long at all). On YouTube, I'm being spoon-fed by some jabronie who may know nothing at all.

 

Kurt this is just me, but when it comes to eBay if I see someone advertising something that is not true. I do not hesitate to go to eBay's management and let them know that this individual has a deceptive ad running. You know they do have rules about it. And I've had a couple of ads actually pulled from their website for that reason.

Kurt they don't know about something unless you can inform them of it.
You know I found people do a lot of complaining but very little do anything about it.
USMC60 note. Kurt I also tell the individual on eBay if they'd like to verify that the ad is deceptive. To please go on a Google search for images for USMC 60 which I informed them that that is myself. I asked them to click on a photo that resembles what the seller is selling and actually read the description of that individual coin.Before eBay will pull a add you have to prove to them that it is what you say it is.Kurt this seems to work out quite well and eBay has accepted the fact and has a reference point to legally pull someone add for deception.