BrumChris

With the help of some TSF members, which I will keep anonymous in order to help protect the community when investigating potential future instances, and some admin investigation...

We have today banned a new member who was found to be abusing/manipulating the trading feedback system to create false feedback on trades that never took place on TSF.

The decision to ban was also made as we also believed that this person could have posed a potential trading risk to TSF members. TSF prides itself on having one of, if not the, most honest online marketplaces for trading precious metals. This year alone there have been over 5046 new trade topics started, with many trade topics containing huge lists of precious metals items for sale. Many thanks for those members who choose to buy and sell on TSF. 

Please do see the following topic and re-read to remind yourself on some simple tips in order to help reduce risk as much as possible when trading on TSF:
 

 
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Love those Kooks!
This is the World Money Fair 2023 edition - 2000 mintage.
 

Some sellers are idiots. I bought a half sov back in 2009 and they posted it loose in an envelope with a 2nd class stamp...
Good job I'm honest.

I'd love a five but could only stretch to a double. Stunning coin. I also have the half. 
I may sell the half but the double is a permanent addition to my collection.

So much negativity!
Always whinging!
Think positive...
It saved you from having to send it back and complain!
I was going to add that if you had bought it from a well known Lancashire dealer, and perhaps also the piedfort, you would have had your coin(s) by now, without paying any extra, but I just checked, and it looks like we also have sold out now:
https://www.chards.co.uk/2022-five-sovereign-piece-bu-gold-coin/16890
Sometimes, we get multiple supplies via different routes, so it might be worth you hitting the NOTIFY ME WHEN BACK IN STOCK
just in case.
I see one of our "competitors" is also advertising them, but at £2750.
Still, that's a lot less than the scumbags on ebay:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155155358563
Price: £3,450.00 grEedy BAstards? Yes
😎

I bit the bullet a few months ago…..

Ebay Fraudster 2010keithr21 Revisited - Shop Name "Charity Aid The World Cares" Fake Charity?
I commented on this ebay seller very unfavourably only recently:
But he came back to my attention today, because our star photographer noticed he was using some of our high quality copyright photos "They are using a MOCK-UP image I did".
I have split his item listing into 3 screenshots:



Here is some of Doug's evidence:



I also commented further on another of  2010keithr21's many fakes he was fraudulently listing on ebay:
Where I showed his real name and contact details, as shown on his listing:
Keith Rutherford
13 Haynes Close
Newark, Tuxford
Nottinghamshire
NG22 0JA
United Kingdom
Hide contact information
Phone: 07812126715
Email: keithr21@gmail.com
His ebay "Shop" is in the name of Charity Aid The World Cares:

I suspect the charity is as fake as most if not all of the "coins" and other items he is offering for sale!
We will be taking action against him!
 

Your first coin is a goal, then your first tube, then your first x50, then x100, then x250oz, then you hit your first monster box x500oz.
I paused at x500oz then just buying cheapest Oz available hit another x500oz soon enough.
Then think I wish I had just stacked gold from day one
It's all little victories ! And disappoint

Following @Britannia47 s theme

A quick snap to remind me until I next see them. 😍🗄️🔒
Edit... Colour difference due to my lighting set up (or lack of) 

Email doesn't say. Best keep an eye on their website.

Woman logic,
Buying something that in all likelihood be worth double or more its price in less than five years = BAD   Buy an umpteeth pair of shoes, worn once, that will reside in the wardrobe until donated to a charity = PERFECTLY OK   

I doubt the next Great Engravers coin is released next Monday
They got to let the cow rest before it can be milked again   

Which is the best looking coin out of the 6 of them?
Anything to do with the colour?
Do the Royal Mint need any more evidence that gold sovereigns ought to look like gold, and therefore be yellow, rather than look like copper because they are red?
Perhaps this is s subtle piece of RM advance research ahead of reinstating some silver content, and rectifying the recent colour aberration?
😎
 

Picked up a full from Chards - I don't fancy the RM quality control process...

Never seen so much interest in an item since the "Diversity/crystal maze" coin launched last year 

RM are milking every release now.
I'm not sure about this series - half of me thinks it will tank, the other half thinks it's a sleeper and will shoot up in value in 5 or 6 years.

Have 2 gallons of diesel here.
Willing to swap for a doctors appointment.

its looking like bullion by post are taking pre orders for the bullion sovereign so seems like a bulliin grade will be issued. hoping it will be the arms version

Probably only raffling it cos they can't find a buyer for it 

Well, here is a quick update...
 
I decided to send it off for conservation and grading and NGC graded it as PF70 Ultra Cameo 😳. Talk about absolutely gobsmacked!! I am still in shock and how this purchase initially came about and how it has progressed.
Thank you to all who assisted.
 
 

Looks pretty uninspiring to me.

Looks pretty uninspiring to me.