National Collector's Mint is at it again, the bastards!

[mcscajun]

I just heard their latest commercial on TV, and it made me retch. They're cashing in on 9/11 with a five-year commemorative; once again, they're making the same sorry-ass claim of using silver "miraculously recovered from a bank vault found under tons of debris at Ground Zero."

http://tinyurl.com/krsf3

I plan on posting this to NYS Attorney General Elliot Spitzer. He went after them the last time.
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/



Edited to fix broken link, replacing with TinyURL link.

[liberal N proud]

1. Organizations running under the guise of being a national organization

while they bilk thousands of suckers of their money.

[BlueJazz]

2. The "Franklin Mint" pulls this kind of crap all the time on an....

...uniformed public.

"THESE BEAUTIFUL COINS, CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF WOODROW WILSON ARE MADE
WITH ONE OUNCE OF PURE PRECIOUS SILVER BULLION !!!!!!!

(Only $29.99 + $5.99 Shipping)

Silver is What?? 6-7 bucks an ounce?

[CountAllVotes]

3. Silver = $12.37

Hmmm !! :D

[BlueJazz]

5. Oh..Then their price would be $39.99 :)

[Nevernose]

18. Just 3 or 4 years ago it was around $3.50 or $4.00. Factoid:

Interesting factoid: Nevada, "The Silver State," is responsible for roughly 90% of the world's mined silver. And most of the mining interests are controlled not by Democrats or Republicans, at least directly, but by Canadianm comapny Barrick Mining, which also has ties to the Carlylse Group?

[mcscajun]

7. They take the high road compared to outfits like the NCM

Their stuff is overpriced and overrated in terms of any collectible value, but at least they are honest thieves.

NCM is run by lying scum that aren't above exploiting a national tragedy for profit.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Hey, now, they're not all so bad. I mean, look at how they've worked

to show the truth about trickle-down Reaganomics by charging $10 for their Reagan dime.

[Nevernose]

17. From "King of the Hill"

From memory, sorry:

"You have to stop painting your address number in front of my house."


"But Hank, I can't! You have no idea the lengths to which the Franklin Mint will go!"

[calico1]

4. I was surprised to see that ad again.

I thought a stop had been put to it. It's disgusting and shameful. What next? I'm surprised they don't claim the coins contain remains of the deceased. :mad:

[burythehatchet]

6. Good. Spitzer will be all over their scummy asses.

[elehhhhna]

22. Huh? Tell more!

[burythehatchet]

23. Eliot Spitzer

AG of NY, he is a rabid dog when it comes to screwing companies who screw us. He is a republican's worst nightmare.

[elehhhhna]

24. has he chased them before?

[burythehatchet]

25. according to the OP he has

although I'm not familiar with the previous action. I know Spitzer from his pursuit of the big players in the insurance biz. He's shagged them rotten as Austin might say.

[mcscajun]

27. Yup. He took 'em to court and shut them down for a while.

Unfortunately, not for good. Only so much you can do with these scurrilous companies who skirt the law, bending it but not totally breaking it.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/2004-10-13-wtc-coin_x.htm

[Initech]

8. Check out some of their other offerings (equally nauseating)

http://www.nationalcollectorsmint.com/category.jsp?path=-1&id=1699

[elehhhhna]

10. Is it the one w/ the flip-up stanging twin towers? HIDEOUSLY AWFUL.

[mcscajun]

14. That's the one. Their "creative" staff has no taste, either.

:puke:

[elehhhhna]

19. It would hurt to sit on that thing.

[Jara sang]

11. Are they one doing the "Reagan Dime"?

Fucking assholes.

[mcscajun]

15. Damned if I know...

...in the case of the "Reagan Dime", the morons buying those deserve to be ripped off. :)

[elehhhhna]

20. Sorta. The us dollar is now worth a Reagan era dime, anyway.

[tabasco]

28. That ad is fkking offensive.

Showing rotten Roosevelt fade out and be replaced by the shining REAGAN!!

:puke:

Old stupid people living on SOCIAL SECURITY are probably the ones buying those crap fake Reagan dimes.

[mcscajun]

29. Finally! I located the outfit responsible for the "Reagan Dime"

It's issued by a company even LOWER down on the food chain that calls itself the "Washington Monetary Authority".

Centennial Productions Inc., which is also known as Centennial Sports, Old New England Mint, Olde New England Mint and Washington Monetary Authority.

[TahitiNut]

12. How much do they charge ...

... to show little bodies leaping from the towers rendered in genuine diamond chips? :puke:

[elehhhhna]

21. actual bone chips from the site would be classier...

& they're still being found.

[cynatnite]

13. Someone told me these things do not appreciate over time

They said the value actually lowers. It was a guy I was talking to a few years ago at the VA and I had said something about how they're exploiting 9/1l.

[mcscajun]

16. Nearly all of these faux collectibles are just overpriced trash

that NO ONE will ever put premium on, nor will they ever see the inside of a premier auction house.

[PsychoDad]

26. That eagle

Looks like the eagle on Judge Dread's Badge :wtf:


Peace.