Haven't seen HSN Coin Collectors in a long time...

I was kind of bored earlier today and I noticed that I haven't seen Coin Collector with Alan Skantze and Mike Mezack in quite some time.
I looked at the program guide and it doesn't appear to be coming on in the next 7 days.
Has anybody seen Coin Collector on recently?

Here is a picture, just for the heck of it...Mezack loves his Red Oak...

 

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I havent, but I havent looked either but I keep seeing that one thats like a news report on the dollar coins

 

If you are talking about the Presidential Dollar coins than yes I've seen that one too. In fact, two different ads, one being with Mike Mezack.
Even though that these shows have overpriced prices and are annoying to most people, I still like watching, very entertaining, sometimes funny.

 

Indeed. I've watched quite a few

 

entertaining, sometimes funny, but unfortunately, I think that the biggest majority of their (Meszack's) audience is people like us who watch to be entertained and have no intention of buying. I think that the shows days are numbered. The Coin Vault web casted their shows over and over again on their site until just a week or so ago. I watched all the time, but I never bought a thing.

Personally, I think that their running out of dupes that will buy what they are offering. Unlike most tv shows, mere viewers are not enough for them. Sales drive everything. I think it's why we have seen a few items like GSA Morgans on those shows lately. Unfamiliar items (for most) that command a bit more of a premium than plated quarters that they can mark way up without drawing too many raised eyebrows. If they can work in right underneath the radar and sell you 85 or 90 of them at a $100 profit each, then it's a success.

They do the same thing with the ANACS graded FDOI gold , cents and quarters. Take an item with virtually no existing marketplace, overprice it, hype it as the "next big thing", and sell it to people who really don't know about coins. That's a formula that has been working for years. Unfortunately, the pool becomes smaller every time you sell one to someone who asks someone knowledgeable about their purchase.

 

anyone who buys gold plated golden dollars is an idiot. Plain and simple. I don't care what the ad says, never buy anything based on one person's recommendation alone. The New York Mint is always running these commercials talking about how the government ordered melting of millions of gold coins to sell $20 double eagles, but yesterday I heard one that said that the govt. ordered melting of millions of silver dollars but that a hoard had been found and they were offering them to the public first come, first served. Gleaming Morgan Dollars from 1921!!! What a rare find! :gag:

 

In my part of the woods the Coin Vault is the main one that's run on TV. I haven't seen that "coin king" guy, Mike Mezack for a long time. Yup, in these parts he is history, in fact his longtime sidekick Sean whatever his name is, is now on Coin Vault.

 

If it is the same show that I am thinking of, then I think that I have only seen it a few times a long time ago and I will have to admit that it did provide me entertainment when I see the ridiculous mark-ups on certain gold and silver coins. Unfortunately, it is not a laughing matter to the person that actually buys it from that TV program and later realizes that the local dealer will not give that person anywhere near what they paid for it on the TV program. It might be a lesson learned but it can be an expensive one.

 

Can't believe we've seen the end of them, unless they've run out of suckers. Probably just some down time, waiting for their new batch of 70's Parks Quarters and bullion.

 

as far as "The Coin Vault" goes - Robert Chambers, Shawn Leflar, and Scott Houk continue to litter the vast wasteland of cable television with their overhyped, overpriced coins. They recently stopped webcasting the show and my only guess as to why would be cost considerations.

It may very well be that this venture will go down in flames and it wouldn't be the first incarnation of this same program to do so. They have been everywhere from Shop At Home, to ShopNBC and now CSN presents The Coin Vault. Eventually it seems, there is not enough profit in the coins that they are able to sell, even at the hyper-inflated prices they charge, and the venture either goes belly up or goes through some metamorphosis and re-emerges in some other place looking and sounding very much the same as it was before.

I just wish they'd air it here someplace. I never bought anything from them (mostly because I know something about coins), but I loved the entertainment.

 

My mom bought me the state quarter bears from one of them LMAO.........told her thanks but dont do it again............few months ago se brought me some "new" pennys and other coins that got sent with the pennys from littleton........Once again thanks mom but dont do that again........LOL

 

my friend gave me 2 sets of westward journey nickels from them, one plated in gold and one in platinum. i couldn't refuse a free gift, he got it as payment for someone that owed him money. i told him never to take coins without asking me first. because the nickels were not worth the $100 that the person owed. they said they were worth $500. the nicest thing about them is the holder they came in.

a few months later he gave me all these large gold and silver covered $2 bills. they were in currency holders and each had a cert with them, but in my opinion and the coin dealer i go to, they are not real money. what is even worse is he was told they were worth $300! he got $150 in face of them and figured at worst he would get his money back.

although he didn't directly buy from them, he still fell for there junk twice, and i imagine that some people will never learn.

this is the same person who got 3 orders of the hsn $500 knife sets. he thought he could sell them at the fleemarket and make money. he ended up with around 5,000 knifes and ordered a few more packages because he thought he could sell them if he got more.

 

I can't stand watching this idiot because he likes to talk with his mouth wide open.

Chris

 

Him explaining every time that proof is a method of manufacture used to get me every time. He'd say the same thing over and over again it wasn't even funny, of course, some people may be watching for the first time.

Mezack, to me anyway, seems to be a true numismatist, but I honestly can't tell how much he knows as he only spews basic information. I like him though, he is entertaining to watch with Alan Skantze.

"Maybe there is a special graduation, birthday, or funeral coming up and you don't know what to get. How about the gift of silver!?" - Alan Skantze

The whole show draws in me time after time and I never have the intent on buying anything, everything they have ever had, except for maybe one item was overpriced. If the show, for whatever reason, is going to be cancelled, then I am a bit saddened. NBC has their own version of a coin show, Coin Shoppe, and that one is pretty good, it used to feature Robert Chambers in 2008, I believe. Now they have some other dude, and he seems pretty knowledgeable, he's nowhere near as annoying as Chambers though.

No matter what anybody says, HSN Coin Collector is a very entertaining show, and I'll miss it if it really is gone.

 

Coin Shoppe features the always affable Paul Hollis who from everything I can tell sounds like he's reading Mike Meszack's scripts. They both spew basically the same information.

I remember a long time ago (probably 15 years ago) there was a VCC (Video Catalog Channel) and they would sell rare coins like 1877 IHCs in G for way over inflated prices, but at least what they had was interesting and you could learn something from it. Of course, they didn't make it either, but if I were to have a choice, I'd rather see that.

Or just listen to a podcast... lol

 

Rest assured these guys will never go away.Its simply a matter of cnbc or hsn having cheap air time available.Thats why they are on at 2am thru 4am.I love to watch these shows.I dvr them because I laugh for 2 hours.
As for losing business?? nah look at the price say for 12 lincoln cents from 2009.They tell you the price say 99.99(a hundred bucks) and tell you we only have 1500 left.DO THE MATH.Thats 150,000.00 for one item.These guys are trillionaires.
Was just sad to see the coin vault go.Chambers was a sterotype hillbilly.Kept me in stitches.

 

It's like looking at a train wreck. You don't like it, but you can't take your eyes off of it. You're right, I haven't seen them in a while. Who is the other coin guy with the country accent?

 

I used to use them as 'white noise' while I tried to sleep at night. Not only have they stopped their webcasts, BUT they WERE working with the ION network, also, till recently. They bought a 3 1/2 hour block on Sunday nights....then it went to 2 hours, 1 1/2....now they aren't even on the network. Perhaps they HAVE sold as much of their overpriced, overhyped crap as they can....perhaps people with too little knowledge/too much extra cash figured out putting together a set of NGC MS69 Modern Commem halves wasn't the 'investment opportunity' they were trying to make it out to be.

 

Dish Network carries Coin Vault on channel 225 three or four days a week..........once in the afternoon, twice at night and once in the early AM hours I think.

Chris

 

You mean I gotta get dish network just to watch??? hmmm that might be an option