Cornishfarmer

The silver and gold markets show how rigged the system is, everything is exploding in price except for pm’s.      Boe saying inflation might get to 4% not sure what they are looking at.    Notice the Internet providers and electric started putting prices up by inflation plus 4%.      
food prices going up fast this will be the straw that breaks the camels back

I think your wrong, I expect the majority here are flippers. I know from the years you have been on the forum that you collect some very nice proofs but as at least one post near the start was asking for offers for their purchase.      The way the royal mint has gone in the last 18 months has encouraged this.    The 2oz Una silver was probably the last coin before the flippers moved in.      I’ve got nothing against flippers I’ve tried doing the same but when it comes to it the designs are so nice I can’t bring myself to sell. (If any one wants to offer on the three graces 5oz COA #1 I’ll listen!!!)
I really hope that the quality is good on these coins but with 10 coins and all that frosting I can see a perfect set hard to come by

When I saw the thread title "Dorset coin company", I wondered if it was about a "Dorset coin company", or The "Dorset Coin Company".
Folowed closely by the thought that if a TSF member was asking if Dorset Coin Company are trustworthy or reputable, then I might add my opinion that they indeed very honourable, and well -respected numismatists. In the past, I have dealt with them (mainly with Ernie, but I probably have spoken to Terry).
The actual thread, with the comment "Thanks for your money sucker. Ha ha" shocked me. No wonder some other TSF members queried how the previous conversation had been phrased. Being pedantic, he should at least have put a comma after the word money, but perhaps he was replying using his phone, which seems to make everyone lazy, and sloppy about spelling, punctuation, etc. 🙂
Perhaps Terry was having a particularly bad day, but even so, the comments are inexcusable for two reasons. The first because it's no way to talk to any customer, but the deeper reason is that it appears to reveal his true attitude to customers and collectors. Nobody with that attitude should be in the coin business.
When I did a Google search for DCC, their ebay shop was the first result, which is quite revealing. I wanted to find their website, but I guess ebay pay Google adwords to be able to hijack the top spot, and DCC's website is not fantastic; it loaded slowly with missing images, and it's my further guess that ebay is there main online sales channel, while their own website is of much less importance to them.
I took a further look at Google results, and found: 
"Dorset Coin Company dorsetcoincompany.com
Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience! © Dorset Coin Company 2020."
in 20th place, but their actual live site dorsetcoincompany.co.uk failed to appear in the first 5 pages (50 results), so might as well not exist as far as Google is concerned.
My third guess is that DCC discovered that it's easy to use ebay to market your products, and also that it requires considerable effort and expenditure to create a website which can compete with ebay.
I sure am glad that I took the view back in 1998, that we needed our own company website. We experimented with ebay years ago, and hated it for enough reasons to fill a book.
What seems to have happened is that unless a business has a fully-functioning, all-singing, all-dancing, website, then it might as well pack up and go home. The alternative is to delegate your online presence to ebay, Amazon, and the like. This applies not just to the coin business. Talk to anyone with a food take-away; if they are not using JustEat, Deliveroo, etc, they probably don't get enough trade to stay in business, so they have to pay maybe 15% to 20% commission to get sales, and that probably means they have to increase their prices to pay for it, which means that you, the customer, ends up paying more. The same thing applies to hotels on sites such as Trip Advisor and Booking.com. These sites also want hefty commissions for booking through their sites, and have T@Cs which debar the hotel from charging lower prices to direct bookers. I intensely detest this, and always try to book direct, but expect to get a better deal. Another example is review sites. While they are a good idea in theory, they are far from perfect, open to abuse, and they charge hundreds or thousands of pounds to allow companies to "manage" the feedback. It works a little like the old Mafia protection rackets.
My next thought is why @Leonmarsh enquired via ebay. I would have tried direct, and possibly suggested that as DCC would be saving (15%?) commission to ebay, they could pass it on as a discount instead. Of course, this does not guarentee a successful outcome. At least, buying from DCC, you could be reasonably sure the coin would be genuine...
... unlike https://atkinsonsbullion.com/gold/gold-coins/other-gold-coins/pre-owned-saudi-arabia-1-guinea-gold-coin, current price £339.13 although out of stock, where it seems you can be assured the coins will be fake "The photograph shows the type of coin you will receive, not the exact item.". The photos on ths page show a very obvious fake. I only became aware of this when @BackyardBullion posted a YouTube video
 BYB was very kind about Atkinsons when he discovered the coin was fake, and reported that the problem was rectified, although I would not have had such kind thoughts.
I looked at Atkinsons website at the time, and they had two pages for Saudi Guineas, one generic and one for the specific date. Both had the same photos which were of a counterfeit, although BYB's coin was a different fake. 
What surprised me at the time was that, weeks afterthe BYB incident, Atkinsons' website still had the same photographs of the same fake coin. It seems they had not thought to check whether the coin in their photos was genuine or fake. I have looked at the site and page occasionally since then, waiting to see if the would ever replace it (I have previouslly publicly commented about it). I checked again today, and have stopped being surprised that they still have the fake photos there. What does surprise me is to notice that more than two years have passed since the incident. (Where did the time go?).
I also just checked our website (not for images of fakes), here: https://www.chards.co.uk/1950-saudi-arabia-gold-one-guinea/1761 priced just under £370 (plus our additional postage charge!). It does say we are out of stock (actually it says "add stock alert" which I think we should re-word). Our photos are of a genuine coin (of course), all our coins are guaranteed genuine, and we do know the difference, and how to tell. The listing is for an ungraded "bullion" coin, but most of these Saudi Guineas are minty anyway. Just after the BYB video, we sorted through our stock of them, from memory about 20 coins, added them to our site, and sold them all quite quickly.
I may have upset two dealers with this single response, but c'est la vie! 🙂
 
 

Phone call this morning, steel up another £130/t putting another £3k on the shed, this is getting out of hand now.    Building Prices are rocketing and concrete getting hard to come by.      Can’t see that this can continue unless it’s government infrastructure spending.    The boom is getting bigger and when the bong comes that will make it even greater

Don’t hold me to it but noticed that on the royal mint site that when the coin goes to ‘sold out’ from ‘no longer available’ coins become available again. The 1oz is now ‘sold out’.     This happened last week when they released more of the 1oz, 5oz silver and the 1oz gold.   Just giving the heads up to anyone that might still need one

I heard from someone the other day that shipping containers have gone from £5k to £7k,    5 fold increase could be exasperating it a little.    What I can see is people taking the p?!/s at the moment they are charging more because they can.         The price of food is going up because farm gate price is going up at last. Got a few mates who are butchers and they said since Easter lamb sales fallen off a cliff because of the price

A bit of fun.  

For the next large TSF prize draw to advertise and bring awareness of the forum, which will be in around a month or two. Should we double the prize and have 2x 5oz silver bars up for grabs, 2 different winners each winning a 5oz silver bar. If you think we should then like this post. 

If this post gets 100+ likes we will give away 2x 5oz silver bars. (I have set this target deliberately low so that it is easily obtainable)

If this post reaches 200+ likes, we will add a small bonus  

@Paul I’m in the same boat at you, but I think it’s good not to be attached to them, I’ve got a fair few that I’d be happy to sell at any time at a few % over spot. Whereas I’ve got pandas, nobles, lunars pre33 that I wouldn’t like to part with but when the time comes that will be a harder decision and they have higher premiums that I don’t think will be achievable while selling on TSF.      So keep buying sovs

@Paul I’m in the same boat at you, but I think it’s good not to be attached to them, I’ve got a fair few that I’d be happy to sell at any time at a few % over spot. Whereas I’ve got pandas, nobles, lunars pre33 that I wouldn’t like to part with but when the time comes that will be a harder decision and they have higher premiums that I don’t think will be achievable while selling on TSF.      So keep buying sovs

@Paul I’m in the same boat at you, but I think it’s good not to be attached to them, I’ve got a fair few that I’d be happy to sell at any time at a few % over spot. Whereas I’ve got pandas, nobles, lunars pre33 that I wouldn’t like to part with but when the time comes that will be a harder decision and they have higher premiums that I don’t think will be achievable while selling on TSF.      So keep buying sovs

Can’t see it makes any difference to the coin, it’s not a scratch or a print. On panda coins have some with extra/less frosting and they are defined as different.   Can’t see how it would effect grade as it’s a minting issue not post minting issue. If I had one I’d keep it and enjoy knowing that there may only be 50 odd like it

Can’t see it makes any difference to the coin, it’s not a scratch or a print. On panda coins have some with extra/less frosting and they are defined as different.   Can’t see how it would effect grade as it’s a minting issue not post minting issue. If I had one I’d keep it and enjoy knowing that there may only be 50 odd like it

Can’t see it makes any difference to the coin, it’s not a scratch or a print. On panda coins have some with extra/less frosting and they are defined as different.   Can’t see how it would effect grade as it’s a minting issue not post minting issue. If I had one I’d keep it and enjoy knowing that there may only be 50 odd like it

I probably made a mistake looking at the proof gold, didn’t go for one because I thought the design would be too complicated for a small coin.   Went for the 5oz silver

That link is for the lion not the new 5oz completer coin

I’ll go for a black Ruthenium Brit.

I’ve got COA #1 for the 5oz silver three graces..... how much extra would that make it worth?

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Must be £1000’s!!! 😂😂😂

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