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    GEOCOIN TRADING, WANTS, OFFERS AND LISTS

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    Looking for a 2003 Oregon Geocoin. Can trade Germany, Alaska bronze, C4C personal, or California. I'm OK to trade two of mine for one. I am new to caching and woudl liek to collect at least one coin form each state I cache in. Oregon is the one I am looking for. email: greg.hillman@hp.com

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    Warning About Coins On Ebay

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    Again were back to the point of an individual that did something wrong. I'm sure it is not their business policy to do such a thing. In any event, what I am talking about with starting this post is that these malicious copycats get new dies made through a different manufacturer.

     

    In the case of taking possession of your design's dies, a customer is welcome to have the dies given to them. The reason why most manufacturers' typical policy is to keep the dies is that once the dies leave their possession the dies are susceptible to damage, especially in shipment. They are easily prone to scratches and dings that render the die useless for re-orders. Any small blemish on a die is a large blemish on the final product. Also, the shipping cost is enormous since the dies are large and very heavy. This now makes the entire coin order cost much more than needed. Then if you want a re-order, you now have to wait for the dies to get back to the mint making order take days longer than needed. If it is a matter of maybe having the coins made at a different mint for whatever reason, then you have to find out if the dies even fit their press machine. Most of the presses are custom made for the manufactures applications and how each mint feels what press design is best for production. Also, the other mint may not want to use the dies since some companies don't want to take the chance of possibly producing an inferior product if the die came from a low grade mint or die maker. Etc., etc...

    I actually would like this. I asked the company that made my coin if I could have the die since one side had the year on it and I wouldn't be minting more. I just thought it would be cool to have. They said they wouldn't do it. With a flat rate box at the post office only costing $7.70 no matter the weight it wouldn't cost that much to send it to the client if they weren't planning on minting any more coins.

    Limited Edition Geocoins

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    The thing about not letting a group order is that you'll probably end up getting orders from the group members individually. So it's a matter of having to package and ship one order or 30+ individual orders.

    This is the truth behind the thing. If you don't allow groups to buy, all those members will be ordering individually and you'll have a lot more shipping to do and a lot more payments to keep track of. I've even heard of people wanting to only sell to groups or at least sell to them first because it makes the process easier and someone else has to do the distribution work.

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