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On 14/07/2023 at 23:01, HonestMoneyGoldSilver said:
Well said Lady Oberon
It's a pleasure to have you here. You'll find a few phillies frolicking in these woods including the buy, sell and trade section 😁
An excellent depiction of trying to separate a girl from her handbag 🤣
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On 14/07/2023 at 20:09, LadyOberon said:
Hello From The USA Everyone,
I'm new to stacking just since April of 2023. Although I've researched a TON before I began stacking, there's always going to be questions that need answers. I'm glad to have found a place with like minded individuals to share my thoughts and opinions with, and continue to be an active member of the forum.
My goal is to secure a future for my family. I believe that it's important for all of us to have some form of "insurance". Precious metals just happen to be mine 😁.
I have also set the goal to make women/girls aware of the importance of obtaining and retaining tangible assets. This number is quite small in comparison to males. I'd trade a Louis bag for silver and gold any day.
I wish you all good health and wealth,
LadyOberon
Morning. Trying to separate a girl from a handbag is like trying to separate milk from tea. Not happening. 😆
Good luck though. Welcome to the forum.
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20 minutes ago, MBTPSilver said:
Unfortunately there's no choice, it's a legal monopoly. You can't go elsewhere for official UK coins so the mint can do as they please. The best petition you can do is to stop buying the coins, and email Royal Mint with a polite, coherent message stating that the reason you're not buying their proof coins is due to the low quality control. If they saw sales on Proof coins drop by 25 - 50% then they'll start to take action.
The RM is like Apple. They tell the public what's best for them, and eventually the public agrees. One day we'll all be happy with dinged, scuffed coins as our resistance in expecting the RM to change will wither away and be replaced with a slightly foggy recollection that's something's not quite right, but we accept it anyway. Rather than companies reaching for the heavens and taking us along for the ride, they slam out the crappist denomination possible and have us exist in it.
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On 02/08/2023 at 15:59, paulmerton said:
I'm ambivalent about this but here's some more pictures.
I also returned a 5-coin coronation sov set, and the replacement - which had also been given an outward inspection due to my complaints about these ongoing issues - arrived with a half sov like this:
The quarter has a noticeable ding on it too:
And the other coins have frosting issues that the original set didn't have.
The set I returned in the first place only had one duff coin, which they refused to replace individually, so this is super annoying - especially at this price point. This is worse than being back at square one.
If I keep getting worse sets back even when they are explicitly double checking them before dispatch, I think my relationship with RM is close to terminal. They are not delivering the quality they profess to deliver, and haven't been for some time in my unfortunate experience. They can't even put things right when they get it wrong again and again.
I've bough cheap spanners in better condition 🙁
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Personally I can do without the stress and expense of proof coins. Fretting, not fretting, knowing, that your supposedly pristine coins will probably arrive looking like they've been on a construction site's conveyor belt underneath some rubble. Then you get to experience the abject disappointment and dread of musical chairs with the RMs swap out /refund/apology programme, where you're end up getting someone else's coins as a replacement that they disappointedly sent back, as they get yours.
Bullion all the way. Less disappointment. 🤣
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1 hour ago, katyc said:
I've found storage to be quite reasonable. A small box is about £9.50 a month in Leeds (that's if you buy 3 years up front - you get a small discount). But that's for a tiny box, the price soon goes up with larger sizes!
If you need a larger box, you can afford a larger fee! 😂
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1 minute ago, Charliemouse said:
2022 Memorial Quintuple Sovereign - PF 70 UCAM
Seems to be quintuple week for me. Thanks to @ST1986. Just the video for this one, since I did a picture of an identical quin a few months back.
Oh that's positively regal. I'd rather spend the evening staring at that than the telly.
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4 hours ago, Bigmarc said:
Scrap that, can't find any info on the company apart from someone called Sharon, doesn't seem to be registered to companies house.
I especially liked the rebadged Polynesian silver selling at four times spot and sporting unlicensed film tie ins. 😂
Think I'll stick to my John Wick continental silver. 😅
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15 minutes ago, Coverte said:
Lovely seating, the finest wines, Le Cordon Bleu Chef knocks up anything you want;
no idea what's outside, @James32 keeps the curtains closed 24/7 - we tried to open the curtains once when his private jet took him to his Monaco pad for the weekend,
but allegedly @HerefordBullyun who was allowed in once, and had some sort of accident, now for some reason the curtains wouldn't open at all and nobody has touched them since ....
Exactly how I imagined it 😂 that and Stephana decorating the place in antique silver piss pots 🤣
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On 01/08/2023 at 09:10, Skyfiller said:
I cannot see any way a modern press can accidentally produce this. It would have to mint a coin, then flip it over and mint that side against a new blank. Even if this happened it would be gold against gold and there would be nowhere near the definition shown?
From what I gather the RM are employing minimum wage school leavers who probably slammed this one out for a chuckle. I wouldn't be surprised if Charles has an added appendage sooner or later like the 1970s Topps Star Wars bubble gum card that came with a rather large metal doo-dah stuck on CP3O.
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Self deleted. Veering so far off topic I worm-holed into general chat.
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I've just been to Con'co to get my sov' replaced. They're having the one I took back appraised, although It looked like a duck and walked like a duck to me but who knows, maybe there's a huge switcheroo op going on and this is the tip of the iceberg. Probably not.
The fella that pocketed my gold was still on the shop floor today and walked past me on my way out of the place. I made eye contact but he was determined that he absolutely would not look at me, glance at me, point a foot in my direction, or even let a follicle on his head come my way. I thought he'd at least say "Oops. Sorry, I'm an idiot, I had things on my mind!" but no, nothing, not a sausage. It just made me wonder if it was an innocent mistake after all. Oh well, hopefully next time I need to ask where they've moved the chickens to someone else will be around, as I don't think this fella likes me very much.
Another thing, the store manager wasn't able to spot the actual moment the fella pocketed the gold on CCTV footage, so he must have been swift. Only him being challenged and retrieving the gold from his pocket was caught on camera.
My new pube free coin.
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9 hours ago, NGMD said:Great Post and Outcome. The real story will happen behind the scenes because it wouldn’t have been the first time with this charmer, but they don’t want to wash their laundry in public. Police, reputational damage, trading standards, press/social media etc
Gold is as good as cash and we should all be watching like it’s physical cash. A small coin worth £400 is easier to ‘Hide’ than notes.
Places like Costco should have two people dealing with Gold because they’re thieving fudgers alone.
The fella with a fetish for pocketing customer's items got off scot free according to management. No disciplinary action taken. Just a quiet word and 'OK. Level complete. Continue the game' as there's no proof he intended to keep the sovereign, even though he walked off with it in his pocket. Apparently that's completely ok to do. And if the customer complains, the culprit just saying 'I forgot it was in my pocket' is enough to make the complaint go away. A very annoying situation for me tbh. He'll probably serve me again today when I go back for my replacement. I'll write a sequel if he does. Maybe he'll be more successful this time and employ Jason Borne Tactics to squirrel my sovereign away. He clearly likes them, sticking it in his pocket the £@$%^Y&U*(*&^%$!
9 hours ago, Spyder said:Great outcome in the end. The tea leaf has probably been moved on or relocated to another store.
I get a feeling that buying a sovereign there, being in the middle of the store(1st I knew about this, being I have never been to one) and everyone seeing who is buying precious metals is something like going to the chemist in the old days and quietly asking about buying some durex, and the assistant shouting to the manager for all to here 'HOW MUCH ARE THESE CONDOMS'
You have to Marshall your own sovereign purchase due to the sale being displayed on their duel computer screen, one which faces the public, meaning everyone in the queue behind you can see all the details of what you're buying, and are happy to gawp at it. Then they have you fill in your name, address, phone number, and membership number on a form in full view of any nearby customers, some of which seem incredibly interested in what's being written down. So tactics need to be employed, like staring at people who are staring at your business and loud explosive 'Can I help you?'s directed at any customers who are clearly checking your form details for spelling mistakes and grammar, they're helpful like that, and others who seem to be captured by the gravitational pull of whatever gold you're in the middle of buying as the staff usually leave it on the counter while the form and payment goes through - and while all this is going on - now you have to keep an eye on the staff pocketing the gold! It's bog rolls and tins of tuna from now on, not worth the hassle buying pms there.
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39 minutes ago, flyingveepixie said:
Can't stand the place meself either to be honest. Last time I went (also at the behest of the other half) I said I wouldn't be going again.
She and the daughter both like it so they can keep it. I'll give it a miss.
One of the worst things about the place is that the trollies only really go in a straight line, so if some nutter is heading right towards you, and lets face it Costco is full of them, you don't have anywhere to go. Even if you stop you can't move the trolley to the side and let them pass so when the inevitable confrontation arises they treat you like you've just stood on their cat. And if you're meek with it and just park up somewhere hoping for a quiet moment to get past, every bugger notices and takes advantage. I like to think of supermarkets as films and some are better than others but Costco? Death Race 2000. Maybe Mad Max on it's quiet days.
Anyway, I'll stop waffling since its been resolved. Unless they change their mind and don't give me a new sovereign, Then I'm starting a whole new post about it lol
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3 minutes ago, ZRPMs said:
Put your foot down with a firm hand and tell him. "Get what you need from here tomorrow. enough to last they rest of your natural. It's the last time we're coming back."
I've not had a good history with Costco.
Once they were fitting new bases to a floor display stand and let one drop a few feet away from me. It made such a slap on the floor it nearly blew my eardrum out.
Another time a fella decided to grab hold of my trolley and go full on rage train with it for no reason. Nutter.
Then this. Been other things I won't post. I want to be able to sleep tonight 😅
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12 minutes ago, Paul said:
Sounds like you've got a positive fast solution by the manager
I had to fight for it. All he original offered was he'd pick up the bill after I sorted getting the sovereign appraised myself. I told him what I wanted to resolve the matter and he agreed. Nice enough chap though.
10 minutes ago, flyingveepixie said:At least you're getting a new sov and 30 quid for your trouble. Look on it as getting a sov below spot. It's a win win for you. 😄
I really didn't want sweaty-bollock-coin in my collection, fake, gen, or otherwise. Not my problem to assess it now. £30 is nice though. I might stick it towards another sovereign.
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The 5 Major Trends That Are Shaping Our Economic Future
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The main thing that's going to shape our economic future imo is full on chip in hand digital currency whereby we become the currency. Like walking debit cards scanning ourselves when we want a bag of potatoes. Or getting embarrassed when we don't have enough in the bank balance and we, not the card get rejected. Maybe asking the shop assistance to rescan our hand hopping we'll go through ok and realising we've become nothing more than a financial product ourselves. Maybe financial institutions will allow sponsoring where we can have their brand stamped on our forehead or we walk around in racing driver style jumpsuits advertising Natwest and Capital One for freebies and credit points.