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THE WELSH DRAGON

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  2. THE WELSH DRAGON

    HEY Augustus

    By THE WELSH DRAGON,

    HELLO JOSH,
    JUST FOUND YOUR LETTER FROM OCT. IN MY IN-BOX. SORRY, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS EVEN THERE. I DON'T USE THE "CHAT BOARD" THINGIE, SO I NEVER LOOK THERE.I HOPE YOU'RE HAVING MORE FUN AT THIS HOBBY THAN ME RIGHT NOW. I REALLY DIDN'T THINK THIS WHOLE THING COULD GET ANY MORE FRUSTRATING, BUT AS ALWAYS, WRONG AGAIN!TAKE CARE
  3. THE WELSH DRAGON
    DAYS OF THE PAST, THE BEAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CUSTOMER.
    NOW, ALL OF THE SUDDEN, THE BEAR IS THE BIG COMPANIES THAT HAVE THE CUSTOMER CORNERED BECAUSE OF SERVICE OR LACK THERE OF.
    OR BECAUSE OF SPECIAL CONNECTIONS THAT OFFERES SPECIAL LABELS OR TURN-AROUND TIMES FOR THOSE "BIG DEALERS".
    MAYBE SITTING IN THE CLOSET SUCKING YOUR THUMB IS YOUR WAY OF DEALING WITH DISGUSTING FEES, SERVICE, AND EGOTISTICAL BEHAVIOR. HOWEVER, THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME.
  4. THE WELSH DRAGON
    FOR ANYONE INTERESTED, I AM SELLING OFF ABOUT 90% OF MY COLLECTION.
    I WILL BE LISTING ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM MY "CONTROL PANEL" PAGE ON EBAY.
    MY EBAY USER ID IS worldbirdcoins.
    IT WILL TAKE ME MANY DAYS TO LIST EVERYTHING, SO IF YOU DON'T SEE IT LISTED, JUST WRITE ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN.
    YOU CAN CONTACT ME THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, THROUGH EBAY MESSAGES, OR WRITE ME AT bkdeeds@yahoo.com
    IF THE PRICES ON EBAY ARE TOO HIGH, JUST WRITE ME AND MAKE ME AN OFFER.
    THANKS
  5. THE WELSH DRAGON
    This isn't fun anymore.
    Hey there Rick,
    Thank you for your offer on the trades, but I think I am going to just sell as much as I can being myself to letting go.
    I think that if I was to trade/buy any more stuff, I would just want to put it up on the Registry, and that is exactly what I want out off.
    I have been collecting for about 10 years now. I have been an active player on the registry for about 8 of those years.
    Over those 8 years I have added, deleted, re-added, re-deleted sets over and over. I would probably have around 200 more "First Place Ribbons" if I didn't keep deleting sets.
    I have dropped out of the Registry twice now, and this will be the third time. But i am pretty sure this time is it. I have went from U.S., to China, to Australia, and now to Great Britain coins. Through all those changes and all the research I have done on those coins, I have had countless problems with NGC and their serivce.
    Every time I started in a new country, I would have a new set of problems with NGC. Coins mislabeled, coins mounted backwards, wrong metal type...you name it. And as I got more and more ignored, I would just go into my "Control Panel" and delete everything.
    When I was doing Lunar coins from China, I really didn't think NGC could do any worst. I mean it was everything you could imagine, almost every order had something that needed fixed.
    BUT THEN CAME BRITISH COINS!!! Oh my God!! I don't think anyone at NGC as ever even seen a British coin. Over the spand of one year (all of 2011) I spent around $17,000 (just for information, this amount is about 1/3 of my take home pay!) on grading and had around 28 orders. Each order ranged from 15 coins to 40 coins. And in EVERY order there was a mistake by NGC. I was on the phone with them more then I was on Ebay.
    And almost every person I talked to had a tone. Like I was wasting their time or something.
    The final straw was when the "world coin expert" told me that a coin that I had in my hand did not exist. And, hold on you're going to love this part, it was graded by....yeap you guessed it, NGC!!!
    Now, the same company that graded a coin, put it in their population report, and had it listed on the Registry on their website and then said it does not exist, is the very same company that is telling me that PCGS is no longer acceptable. WHAT A COMPLETE JOKE!
    NGC is only about one thing, that is money. I have now realized that and I have changed my whole collecting goals because of it.
    My heart goes out to people like "Mr. Bo Jingles" and everyone like him because I know what it is like to find out that someone is playing you like a fool.
    I have so much more to say, but really, what's the point? You have two options, put up with it, or leave it. When the #2 in charge (Scott at NGC) tells you that some mistakes won't be taken care of, I guess that answers all the questions I have.
  6. THE WELSH DRAGON
    I'm sick of it, it's time to enjoy my sailing, build a greenhouse so that I can garden in the winter, spend extra time with the granddaughter and reading my Bible. Maybe take that money spent on coins and take that dream trip through Europe now that the Euro is crashing and travel there is cheaper than it has been in decades...lots of things to fill thye time I spent on coin collecting. Most of them will enrich my life far more also.
    I SAY AMEN!!
    I spent the better part of 30 min. today just deleting sets from my "Control Page". What started out as 4 pages, with around 122 sets, with 117 of those first place sets, is now down to just a few. Why? Because NGC dropped PCGS from the World Coin Sets? Hell no! Even though it did affect MANY of my British sets, maybe around 15 sets, that's not the only reason for such a turn-about.
    For the past 5 or 6 years I have been on the phone with NGC, trying to clear up their mistakes, more times then I could ever count. But I can tell you this, NOT one of those times, NOT ONE, did I ever feel like they turely cared about me or the mistake they made. No matter who I talked to, they all seemed to be in such a hurry to get me off the phone. I have already told the story about the so called "second in charge" flat out telling me that they are way too busy to be dealing with my problems. Which was funny, because if THEY would have labeled the coin right the first time I wouldn't have a problem.
    You always want to feel like you're a valued customer, no matter if you spend $50 or $50,000. Well I have been both. When I first started, I was the $50 customer. But last year I was the $18,000 customer. And no where in that time did I get treated any differently. Always like .
    So, I say AMEN to Jackson. It won't be sailing and greenhouses for me, but it will be something more rewarding then making NGC rich.
    As far as BULLY'S question. "As anyone put pen to paper and told NGC how they feel"? I can say that I have not. Maybe I should. But I have to admit, I don't think it would get any better responce then all those phone calls and emails I sent about mislabeling, mounting problems, population mistakes, Registry additions or corrections, or billing mistakes. I mean, if a company seems pissed that you caught a billing mistake where they over charged a customer $55, and then $28, and then $39.... then what makes you think they will care to hear from you about the "Registry"? Besides, are they so busy that they can't open a journal of one of their customers and read it? Even if it was just one or two journals a day. I mean, I work 8 hours, sometimes 10, at my job and I still find time to read/write some journals. That's because I care about what people are saying and about a hobby called "coin collecting" not a hobby called "making money"!