Folks irked by Obama coins that are simply stickers placed on 50-cent pieces

katu.com ^ | 2/13/09

[DogBarkTree]

They thought they were buying a piece of history but many customers now say they were ripped off.

[goodwithagun]

They thought they were ripped off! Truer words were never spoken.

[grimalkin]

How appropriate.

[raccoonradio]

Obama coin con shortchanges collector

Her collection of presidential coins is impressive and something Tanya Thomas takes great pride in. Her latest purchase, though, has left her feeling short-changed. She paid The National Collectors' Mint a pretty penny for four Barack Obama coins, But she thought $75 was a small price to pay to add the 44th president to her collection. That is until her daughter brought them home after show and tell at school.

"The whole front comes off. Its just a sticker stuck on top of a regular quarter or regular Kennedy half dollar. Its just a Barack Obama sticker stuck on top", says Thomas.

While Thomas wasn't familiar with the National Collectors Mint out of New York, the Better Business Bureau is. The coin dealer has an unsatisfactory record with the BBB, because theres been a pattern of complaints and the business has not taken action to correct them. The web-based rip off report also lists countless stories of deception. Thomas says shes called the mint nearly a dozen times herself--to no avail. Our call to the National Collectors Mint wasn't returned, either.

As for the two-dollars worth of coins she paid big bucks for? They won't be going in this collection--. (what, NOT Pepsi? ObamaCola?)

In 2005, the mint was ordered by the New York State Supreme Court to pay penalties for misleading consumers about its Freedom Tower silver dollar. The company claimed the U.S. government endorsed the coin to commemorate the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

[indcons]

Bump

[MozarkDawg]

My Grandfather used to say: “A fool and his money are soon parted.” Boy was and is he right.

Not to mention P.T. Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute."

[Clyde5445]

LOL thanks I needed this post. It will keep me going all day. One born every minute

[johnnycap]

“Oh, the wonderful perfect symbolic beauty!”

-I know, it’s the perfect keepsake for their candidate. Just a two dimensional pretty picture stuck on the same old loose change.

[swatbuznik]

Hahaha! Maybe I shouldn’t mention this, but at my work I had to scan in a picture of the coin and made stickers. The guy took them and put them on tokens he made to sell. I thought that was amusing. He wasn’t too far from the truth.

[quintr]

snake oil

[bolobaby]

“Stop ripping people off...”

Wait - is he talking about the coin peddler or Obama. I’m *so* confused!

[Mygirlsmom]

Unfortunately, the people who knew exactly what they were doing in constructing the destruction of America will not allow a “do over”. We’re done for.

[raccoonradio]

oops, that should say “they won’t be going into this collection—maybe a coke machine”...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Perfect !

[HangnJudge]

[garyhope]

America, what a great country.

Everything is “only” (and usually) $19.95 plus S&H.

What a country.

I hope all the Obambi voting lower anal sphincter orifices buy lots of these $2 worth of fifty cent pieces with a sticker on them for $25. Shows how absolutely stupid they are and how politically perceptive they are.

Shows how mathmatically perceptive they are also. That’s how and why they can pass and love the “bailout” and “stimulus”. Pelosi, Reid, Conyers, Boxer, Waters, all probably bought several sets themselves.

[tlb]

>>>My Grandfather used to say: “A fool and his money are soon parted.” Boy was and is he right

The commercials are misleading so that’s a little overboard. This is just short of fraud.

Anyway it’s not just Obama voters. Lots of people besides these get scammed on collectibles. I wouldn’t even consider buying an autographed baseball except directly from the player after I watched him sign it.

[tiredoflaundry]

LMAO *snort*

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

How appropriate: A phony coin of a phony president.

[MosesKnows]

they were ripped off

Obama ripped us all off. Fifty cents will be the very least of your losses.

[musicman]

My mission EVERY time I go to the grocery store, is to act interested in the magazines above the "automatic belt" at the check-out line.

After looking at ONLY the TOP ones in each slot with the Obamassiah on the cover, I put them back in the proper slot, making sure that the top mag is the reverse of the way it is supposed to be, with the back cover now as the "selling point".

I'm guessing at least 60 magazines (a VERY conservative estimate) have been "rearrainged" this way by me, and I wonder how many of them and the ones underneath have had to be "recycled" by the idiots who printed them with the Obamassiah on the cover as their selling point.

I figure if enough people did this, and the mags with Obamassiah on the cover don't sell very well, and is losing them money, if they'll stop bothering to put his pic on the front of them??