MustangJoni

Good work!

You can get a Stamps.com account free for 30 days. Get your mailing done, then cancel before they charge you the monthly fee (which is $15, but you get $20 in postage and a postage scale) You can then choose delivery confirmation, but I believe you pay the USPS price. I like this, because I could not figure out how to process my trades (where no money changed hands) through paypal. I was able to take my excel spread sheet and import it into Stamps.com. Then I just used my scale and was able to print address labels & postage. I didn't quit after the 30 days, because I do the mailing for TXGA and it is just worth it not to spend hours at the post office. And since I don't have access to that paypal account, I couldn't print from there anyway.

My only issue regarding this is that he did not say they were activated until he was asked. He can charge as much as he wants on these, and if someone wants them: Great! But I want to know if what I'm buying is activated or not. I have a better analogy than the one above (sorry 9key! LOL): It is like buying a new car and driving it off the lot. Nothing really changed about the car, but if you take it back to sell it to the dealership, the will offer you significantly less than you just paid for it. So when you activate a coin, you drove it off the lot. You can still sell it, but don't expect to get as much! I do wish you good luck with your sale!

The .14 is through paypal not USPS, I think. I have lost some hair over this as well. Didn't realize the cost to use paypal. So I am eating that. Well worth it though. I haven't shipped coins before but in my business we ship 100-120 FedEx and UPS shipments each day and the .14 seems cheap compared to gettting the call and not being able to do anything. By the time my coins get here in 2 weeks I hope to have this all figured out. The one problem I've had with delivery confirmation through USPS or Paypal is that it never works. I've tried it 5 times, and have yet to be able to check and see if it was delivered. The message I get a month after mailing (and verifying via email it was received) was that the electronic information had been received, but have never gotten any other message. So if it is .34 cents or .14 cents or free, I don't think it is worth it.

you picked a great one to start with!

http://geocoins.frankrijker.com/ Try this one

Yes, I don't know the coin they were trying to log, but mine was a Parrolet. All but one of my coins have pictures. I put a note up also, but because of the language difference, they might not understand it.

My last guess is Culver City, and it is a guess! LOL

Pasadena, CA

If someone wanted that coin, it could be worth a million dollars. Depending on how desperate they are for it. But to people who do not buy activated coins, it is worthless. They don't want it adopted to them, because they want it unactivated in their collection.

Augora Hills, CA

Okay, now I like #14 too!

Can't believe I'm first today! On Halloween, I got the Boo Bash coin and pin The DHenninger & Avroair's Road trip Coin Hazard/Perry County tour and a Tennessee Jed Poker Trip

#4 is still my favorite. I can't tell what #8 is.

Mine is my favorite! After that is the Little Dorkfish and the September Geocoin Club and Pin offering with the two towers.

I just buy coins that appeal to me.

Me too!

Or you buy your mailers from someplace other than the post office... even e-bay offers 100 #0 (6x10) padded mailers for around $20 including the shipping! so that is 20 cents per mailer. Staples, other office supply stores, and probably even your local hardware store sell them for less than 50 cents a piece. then drop your shipping to a more acceptable $1.50 That is why you are getting complaints about $2 shipping. I'm not complaning about your pricing or shipping charges, I'm just offering you the explaination, as most of the coin traders and sellers here do NOT buy their mailers from the post office because it costs too much. I have to agree with NSLP here. I don't think the coins aren't priced too high for the most part. I wouldn't even complain about the $2 shipping charge because it cost more that actual "postage costs" to mail a coin. But you could do better for yourself in terms of the cost of the mailers. You've got 37 coins for sale, and if you sell them all to different individuals, you are spending almost $50 on mailers! At the place I buy from, you can buy 50 poly mailers for $9.49 plus shipping, and it has never taken more than 3 days to get them. So you want to spend $50 or $10 - up to you. If you want a link to the person I use, PM me, and I will send you a link!

That is beautiful!

I am concerned about the various charity coins. While I feel most cachers have hearts of gold, there have been unscrupulous people take advantage of the community. I already feel burned by an auction, now there are a couple of coins. I'm sure they are on the up and up, but how do I know? And please don't think I'm talking about any of the coins listed now. But I see coins become more profitable, what is to stop someone from creating a coin, selling it as a charity coin, and keeping the money. We already had someone sell a coin and it was like pulling teeth to actually get it. Some people never got the coin they paid for.

I've never had to re-subscribe. I auto renews at the end of the subscription, unless you cancel.

I second that recommendation. It is the BEST club! :ph34r: I'll third that one. Affordable and great coins!

I'd like to get a GasCan coin. Here is my paltry trading list: http://cointracking.com/public/MustangJoni Edit to add: I am looking for a trade. I'm unemployed, so buying isn't an option right now! LOL

...nevermind....

why do we have two threads on this?