Free Vermont quarter offer legit?
Curtis Hoffmann
There's an ad on page 53 of this week's U.S. News, for a free
uncirculated Vermont quarter. The jist of the ad is that normal
people aren't getting access to uncirculated State quarters like they
were originally intended to, so the United States Commemorative
Gallery is offering a free quarter to people up until Aug. 30. All
you have to do is send their coupon in the mail, along with 3 1st
class stamps to cover postage.
Anyone else see this ad in other magazines? Is it worth the price?
Comments?
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J. Stone
it shouldn't
take that much to mail a quarter but some of the postage will probably go
towards
a price list.
Brad
>uncirculated Vermont quarter. The jist of the ad is that normal
>people aren't getting access to uncirculated State quarters like they
>were originally intended to, so the United States Commemorative
>Gallery is offering a free quarter to people up until Aug. 30. All
>you have to do is send their coupon in the mail, along with 3 1st
>class stamps to cover postage.
>
>Anyone else see this ad in other magazines? Is it worth the price?
>Comments?
I saw this too. So they are "giving" you 25 cents just for
mailing them 102 cents in postage. And they, IMHO, are trying
to make you think that much of the text is an offical release
from the mint. And are they putting you on a mailing list?
I didn't read the fine print to find out.
Brad
Fred Shecter
you can get a deal if you buy a roll - $10.00 for 40.
-Fred Shecter
Curtis Hoffmann <chof...@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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kenton@@nojunk.rahul.net
Curtis Hoffmann <chof...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>All you have to do is send their coupon in the mail, along with 3 1st
>class stamps to cover postage.
3 stamps plus 1 to mail them in is $1.36. A quarter is worth 25 cents.
You do the math.
Ken
Curtis Hoffmann
Doesn't say anything about a mailing list.
I did a google search on "United States Commemorative Gallery". One
of the links is to a guy that does pastel landscape pictures, and some
of his stuff has gone to a "corporate collection" called the United
States Commemorative Gallery.
http://home.kscable.com/doncoons/Vitae.html
The second link is to a cached (expired) story from the Rocky Mountain
News website. Apparently, one of their reporters smelled a scam when
the Gallery tried selling the North Carolina quarter for an inflated
amount, and he wrote up an article on them back on May 20.
I guess this answers my question - it's a scam.
Jerry
<kenton@@nojunk.rahul.net> wrote in message
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The 2001 Red Book lists the value of some statehood quarters as high as
$2.25
in MS-65 condition. I assume that dealers could also charge a sales tax
on the quarter as well, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
In this case however, I can't see a tax since it is free.
Jerry
Fred A. Murphy
On 24-Jul-2001, Curtis Hoffmann <chof...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> The second link is to a cached (expired) story from the Rocky Mountain
> News website. Apparently, one of their reporters smelled a scam when
> the Gallery tried selling the North Carolina quarter for an inflated
> amount, and he wrote up an article on them back on May 20.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Ab0B7KTR32U:www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_498465,00.html+%22united+states+commemorative+gallery%22&hl=en
>
> I guess this answers my question - it's a scam.
It's not so much a scam as a marketing ploy. They get names and addresses
of collectors for their mailings of future items for sale. Gee, what a
novel concept. A business that advertises their product and wants to have
customers who will buy from them again.
"Free"? Maybe not exactly, but have you ever read the small print on any of
the other "free" offers in *any* newspaper?
The newspaper that's quick to write it off as a scam should certainly be
willing to say how much they charged for the ad. Most coin dealers do not
take out large newspaper ads because they've very ineffective and quite
expensive. The ad that purposely looked like an article was approved by the
newspaper's advertising department, and they had no problem taking $1000 or
so from the advertiser to run it. Now that the advertiser wants to make
some sort of return on his $1000 investment, all of a sudden there's a local
dealer who can sell for less, because he's not wasting his money on big
newspaper ads.
It's a scam alright, and the name of it is "newspaper advertising prices".
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Jerry <je...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>The 2001 Red Book lists the value of some statehood quarters as high as
>$2.25 in MS-65 condition.
Do you really think they'll send you a MS-65 coin? You have a better
chance buying a few rolls at your bank and searching them yourself.
With the 99% that aren't MS-65, you can take out an ad in the newspaper
and give them away for 3 postage stamps each.
Ken