Marketing Ploy: PCGS should slab CU Stock Certificates.

[braddick]

I think it would work. Make the Coin Universe stock certificates collectible.

Slab and grade them!

Wrap an American Flag around the holder and you've got a real winner.

[Guest]

Pat,

CU ( Communist Unlimited ) would never allow such a Marketing Ploy. Look how many people they have banned for use of freedom of speech on the forums. Just today someone came over here.

 

Coolcoin

[shirohniichan]

If the certificates were recovered from an area where people had been brutally murdered or were signed by ex-Presidents, I think they'd sell like hotcakes.

[keithdagen]

Maybe they could do a series of delisted NASDAQ companies. I have some WorldCom I want slabbed.

[mark]

Pat:

 

Your idea is funny!!

 

About 30 years ago I purchased 3 shares of Playboy stock to give to friends for Christmas because Playboy stock had a nude engraved on it. At the time, Playboy stock was selling for about $2.50 a share, so 3 shares were cheap. However, the certificate arrived after Christmas and it was 1 certificate good for 3 shares of stock rather than 3 separate certificates. But it had the nude on it! Well, I couldn't give the certificate away because it was too late and anyway I wanted 3 certificates. So, I hung onto it over the years. At some point in time, Playboy changed their stock so that the shares no longer had a nude on them. And, by so doing, they made my certiifcate a collectable! The last time I looked, a certificate with a nude on it was going for about $150...well above the value of 3 shares of Playboy, which today is $28.

 

Mark

[dragon]

braddick,

 

That's really mean poking fun at PCGS during their time of negative sentiment and upper management turmoil.

 

Dragon

[keithdagen]

Mark,

 

Do an E-Bay search for old stock certificates. You will find that many early certificates had scantily clad or nude women on them, if only allegorical representations. I believe that at one time, it was a requirement for the NYSE-listed stocks.

[mark]

Keith:

 

I'll do that! But I won't link to any pictures I find...I don't want to be booted off these boards a'la KK and others....

 

Mark

[IrishMike]

Why not just insert them in the comic books that they grade, seems fitting to me. Won't have to design a new slab and they could raise the price of submissions for comics.

[braddick]

There you go Mike! Great idea. I'd be a buyer of one share. Might look kind of nice hanging in my garage.