MonkeysUncle

Dirty lady! 😛

Don't forget the collection charge or the stepping into the showroom charge. The handling the door knob charge may be waived...

Well as soon as some mystical force reads my mind and knows I now have cash for 2 or possibly 3 Sovs the price will shoot hack up! Always the bloody way when I actually have money!

Well I can safely say I would be none the wiser if it were in my possession. Try flogging it to another dealer, one that can't seemingly be bothered to check stuff... oooh, I am naughty. I once part ex-ed a Nissan with a knackered gearbox to a dealer who offered a crappy deal and didn't bother to look at the car... 'til a week later. Caveat emptor!

James32? 🤣

Hmmmm, think this has all the hallmarks of a "dodgy dealer limited edition" special... In my youth I was a dogsbody for a dealer of what was then Austin Rover motor cars. Stuff that really wouldn't sell usually ended up with me and another bloke putting those stick on go faster stripes, a pair of front fogs screwed to the bumper and a sticker with some BS limited edition name to make mug punter think the car was special. Oh, and usually a few hundred quid on the sticker price which could be immediately taken off by the friendly salesman so the mug punter was enticed further along the path to getting his wallet out. Who could resist the limited edition goodness of an Austin Maestro 1.3 peasant spec. base model in rattan beige, set off by front fogs, a go faster brown stripe and a Warrior badge? Form an orderly queue now...

Having read that article I now understand why most of my Brits are "minty" as Mr C would likely call them. Namely they came to me from outside the UK... so our Yankee friends made them not the people of strange mother tongue. I have one "manky" tube, and that came from BBP so no doubt from Llantrisant.

Now I've seen this I can't unsee it... The Machin portrait: there's a slug sitting on the Queen's head!

Knowing the bay of they are genuine copies. Sometimes served with egg fried rice.

They can't afford a photographer, 'cause they've spent all their money sending out glossy bumph in the post trying to promote various bits of rubbish. They prefer said rubbish to be referred to as rare and valuable proofs!

But can a question be male but identify not as a male question but a female answer?

I was suspecting it had spent most of it's life hiding in a gravy jug. How many burglars target gravy jugs?

A people of colour list I think is the correct BS term. However if some melon identifies as a gender fluid 2006 model year Toyota Avensis I'm a bit lost on the terminology. I'm feeling the need to buy 2 or 3 Sovs with some spondoolies I should be receiving any day now but hardly any to be seen anywhere. And I don't want this modern red rubbish, I want banana coloured proper ones!

Now that's a definite ebay selling point. A rare matching pair of Scuff Privy Seal Chin Marks. They're not making anymore! Next batch she's copping for it on the kisser. Or the jammie doughnuts on her chops! Got to be 50 quid an ounce all day long!

Hopefully not a privy seal from the hamlet of Bell End. I was unaware any animals luved on the lunar surface, looks like Bezos and Musk have been beaten! Still think the Yanks never went there, they're generally rubbish when it comes to invading foreign lands. Mr Putin has a lot of catching up to do to match the Yanks!

Whilst in the US it is possible to stack silver at not too much of a premium in the UK it isn't. Now that dodging VAT by getting a chap in Europe to ship it over isn't possible there is in my opinion sod all point buying it as an investment. Ditto platinum. Why would anyone give up 20% + on day 1? Because they're fricking retarded is one answer! If you want to collect coins as a hobby then great, go for it if you brings pleasure. I have a metric shed load of base metal proof sets. I might get back most of what I paid but I bought 'em 'cause I like to look at 'em. And besides which, certain close relatives would slice parts off of my anatomy if I bought more old Italian automobiles. Coins I can smuggle in and hide more easily and I feel the need to waste my money on something. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll are overrated! As an investment only gold makes sense to me, and even then dodging "premium" stuff. It's not premium. It's the same as the none premium stuff. A PAMP bar contains nowt different to an RM Britannia. It's definitely not the same as paying a premium to drive a highly specified Mercedes as opposed to say a bargain basement Dacia.

I see the gentleman is running a business that extracts waste body fluids. Wouldn't surprise me if he bought off of a Chinaman for a tenner either!

Try the nice guy approach with them and take it from there is the best advice I can give. I've literally just done this with a glazier of my acquaintance as a 1.5 cm long scratch in the glass in one of 50 odd new windows in a building I had refenestrated a few weeks ago has made itself known to me with the sun getting lower in the sky earlier. Result is a new DG being made up tomorrow.

Maybe, just maybe, the boss man is a HG Wells man or a Whovian and is planning a bit of time travel to go back, make some, tuck 'em away and then flog 'em for lots. Bit like the Dr Who episode with all the Mona Lisa's - The City Of Death. Or if less scrupulous then get a chap in China to make some genuine fakes. I'll have a 1972 Sovereign please...

As RM goes it's not bad for a bullion coin. However I hate stuff like this. If it were me I'd give them a ring/ drop 'em an email, tell them you've got a crappy Royal Mint coin and although you know it's not their fault would they exchange it for you? They can only say no. If no take your future business elsewhere and dump the coin on ebay. I've only ever had good experiences with their folk, but your mileage may vary.

Not when you want to open or close the door it doesn't! A kilo of finest Umicore does the trick for me!

Correct. In order to combat inflation we're scrapping currency with immediate effect. Back to the barter system, you know it makes sense.

It's a free market, so a seller can charge what he likes so long as somebody is prepared to pay. Otherwise he ain't going to be doing much business!

Or it could be an individual or group of individuals trying to make it look like item X is worth Y. I'm not going to admit to having done that with esoteric hifi. No, not me Sell item to your mate/ yourself on another account. Yes, ebay does snag a fee, but hey, that's an "investment" if some nincompoop pays you £995 for something you stock piled a quarter century ago that cost the princely some of £99.

One prices things to hopefully make a tidy profit, observing market conditions, competitor pricing, stock availability and in my case if I consider the client a £%&@ who I would rather not darken my door again. So yeah, demand up, bump it up. If stuck with stuff that isn't shifting bump it down.