Littleton's Price Gouging- How to avoid It
Were going to take a break from the horrible coinage fails and talk about something else- Littleton Coin Company's constant price gouging. (Littleton please don't sue me, please)Manyard Sundman, the founder of Littleton, believed that expanding advertisements to the general media over sticking to collector magazines would push Littleton Coin Company to success. Which it did.Now, I firmly believe that Littleton is out to take advantage of the casual collector and rip every last dollar out of them. Take a set of 1880 O's graded F-8, for example. 10 coins come in the set. All of these coins are worth about $350. So Littleton decides to sell them for $800, calling them rare, and stating that we will never see them again. To add further insult to injury, their albums are around $25, and folders $4. What they don't want you to realize is that many places sell them for slightly cheaper. Barnes and Noble sells the folders for $3.50, and Wizard Coin Supply has both albums and folders at a surplus, much cheaper than Littleton. You can see how Littleton price gouges constantly, using buzzwords to trick you.The sad part is how they trick the unknowing. I mean, if collectors like us get scammed by them, it's on us because we know better. But they scam the general public into overpaying on coins that are worth much less. To avoid price gouging, look around. Ebay generally has better prices, and many other places have cheap deals on supplies.On yeah, Wizard sells Red Books for cheap. They sell them for normally around $10. But, the products (like a Mega Red I ordered one year) tend to come slightly damaged (I exchanged the book because I'm picky) but telling them to take care will do numbers in the care they place on your supplies.
