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A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a CTU!
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Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:49 pmby henrysmedford
A member sent me a PM the other day that someone was using a photo of my coins from the Nightline story to sell the CTU on Ebay and they got a $164.50 for it. I am glad they got that much for it and now after showing the listing to my wife I look a little less nutty to her.
You can see the listing here.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/140898184356?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619&autorefresh=true
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:50 pmby SilverDragon72
Price seems to be high for a CTU. But, if you can get it, why not?
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:20 pmby MetalJunkie
Seems like a bargain if you think about it. I pay melt for 80% silver....so why not melt for copper thats 95%.
for the metal value its still a decent deal even if can be had cheaper elsewhere...
And you even made Canadian News
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:11 pmby RichardPenny43
Maybe the buyer paid that much cuz he thought he was buying from that nutty guy on Nightline.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:13 pmby Morsecode
If he runs it again, you should put one up for sale to coincide with his ending time, using the same photo. Would be funny if he complained to ebay about it.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:01 amby uthminsta
I had someone use my picture AND description on eBay... I wasn't quite as excited as you, Joe. I reported it.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 3:19 amby HoardCopperByTheTon
I had my pics and wording copied early on also.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:47 amby Tourney64
If you complain about the use of your photo, then the listing will be removed and it ill cost the user some EBAY fees. You might be able to get some royalties from the use of our photo.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:10 amby henrysmedford
The photo is of me but the owner of the photo is ABC news. Here is a fun one if you Google penny hoarder and click on images the photo of me is the top hit.
SafariScreenSnapz003 by
henrysmedford, on Flickr
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:51 amby RichardPenny43
Who's the guy in the second picture?
It looks like he has alot of pennies too.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:54 amby chris6084
RichardPenny43 wrote:Who's the guy in the second picture?
It looks like he has alot of pennies too.
Some mystery guy, some guy who is so amazing that he gets his own thread on realcent with over 450 posts.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:21 pmby TheJonasCollegeFund
I sent the eBayer a note about using Joe's picture. It seems he is a RealCent lurker and knows all about Franklin.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:52 pmby uthminsta
RichardPenny43 wrote:Who's the guy in the second picture?
He's a guy who CHOOSES to be second in the picture listing. In fact, he provides the search results by personally scanning every sing webpage on the entire internet every time someone does an image search. THAT'S who it is.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:29 pmby madman326
i caught that story on a repost from yahoo. it lead me to penny sorting, then to the copper cave, then to this site! after almost a year of just hunting silver, i turned my attention back to pennies. last week i searched and added several auctions to my ebay watch list. the one with your pic was one! and by the way, several others i have watched on ebay went for over $170. thanks for getting me into this great hobby, i can truly say it all started with that ABC story!
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:44 pmby uthminsta
madman326 wrote:thanks for getting me into this great hobby, i can truly say it all started with that ABC story!
This is pretty cool, Joe. Cheers to you.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:48 pmby RichardPenny43
uthminsta wrote:madman326 wrote:thanks for getting me into this great hobby, i can truly say it all started with that ABC story!
This is pretty cool, Joe. Cheers to you.
+1
Now we know the news story netted at least one new member.
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Tue Dec 25, 2012 4:49 pmby penny pretty
copywright that sucker! Have your agent call mine, well do lunch!
Re: A photo of my coins helped someone get a $164.50 for a C
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Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:48 pmby itsmerobbyb
Next we will see that picture on billboards everywhere.. lol