Now I've seen Everything

[MarcB]

Everyone knows that College Basketball has the Final Four. Well now the Shop-At-Home Network is having Coinology - The Ultimate Coin Show Down. Who will be crowned Coin Vault Champion? The Coin Vault 4.

http://www.shopathometv.com/custserv/custserv.jsp?landing=coinology

 

[feeball]

I will take coin collectors any day over Don West screaming about finding some rare rookie card of a common player.

 

[MarcB]

I will take coin collectors any day over Don West screaming about finding some rare rookie card of a common player.

Me too, but answer me this (and yes I know a lot of it's taped). Are there really enough coin collectors in this country to justifiy them showing Coin Vault 15 hours a day?

 

[pabsungenis]

I will take coin collectors any day over Don West screaming about finding some rare rookie card of a common player.

Me too, but answer me this (and yes I know a lot of it's taped). Are there really enough coin collectors in this country to justifiy them showing Coin Vault 15 hours a day?

Actual coin collectors know that the stuff on "Coin Vault" is either worthless as a collectable (like all the "colorized" coins, which are considered damaged or defaced), or vastly overpriced (like sets of common as dirt Statehood Quarters, common-date Morgan and Peace Dollars, or proof sets from 1968-1994).

Coin Vault doesn't target coin collectors, they target coin speculators, and do so badly.

 

[BRNout]

The coin vault has some tempting pitches but, as pabsungenis pointed out, a quick look around the internet will reveal that you can buy similar coins for half the price. I suppose that there is a 'no muss, no fuss' quality about the way that they package multiple coin sets - good for a truly lazy collector.

However, when SAH (or anyone else) pitches those "colorized" state quarters, they immediately lose credibility with anyone who knows what they're doing! What crap that is! Sadly, the potential buyers are lower to middle income men aged 65+. It's usually the older folks with little money to spare who fall for that kind of nonsense.

Then again, QVC trolls the nation's trailer parks despirately seeking the uneducated shopper. They're no different. Personally, I wish that all of these home shopping channels would quit wasting electricity and go away. Heck, its 2007 - if you want to buy something just shop the internet!