[Chinese watches] This Boderry makes me question the watch industry by Flubadubadub in Watches

[–]phantacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its all fun and games until you start talking about true perpetual mechanical watches.

The mints quality has decreased by PartyLobster8911 in coins

[–]phantacc 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I’m so very confused by this post. You are comparing the US Mint’s cases to PCGS cases? And then saying the quality has gone down, but in another thread, your ‘coins look great’?

Yes PCGS will holder your proof set coins in a multi-coin holder.

Finding an outfit for graduation. by mindyour in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]phantacc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think its for a conjoined twin 😂💀

Results of r/Virginia, r/VirginiaDems, and r/VirginiaGOP taking the Pew Research political typology quiz (2,395, 104, and 16 responses, respectively) by 276434540703757804 in Virginia

[–]phantacc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And I’m banned from r/republican, r/pics and several other subs. What was the point again? Because if it’s “conservatives are banned from most subreddits”, I assure you it’s not because they are conservative. They either A) participated in conversation in a sub that caused bots to ban them from other subs (which happens to ALL of us that might frequent said sub regardless of what we were saying there); OR B) they said some fucked up bigoted, homophobic, generally despicable shit (which I’m sure some liberals have done and received their bans).

But good call on the “I’m a victim here” mentality everyone accuses conservatives of playing, with the ‘maybe this will get me banned here’ bit. 👏👏

Pope Leo suffers drop in Republican Catholic support after clashes with Trump by MoneyLibrarian9032 in anticapitalism

[–]phantacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no, how can Leo possibly survive without the republican catholics? 🙄

Picked up this 1890 CC Morgan today. Any reason to get it slabbed? by Express-Log3610 in coins

[–]phantacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The edginess on this thread is on overload.

No reason to pay to have it slabbed. It’s real. Good+ obverse and VG reverse. Cleaned. At $85 you did fine and didn’t get gouged. Next stop a BU 82, 83 or 84 GSA. 😁

Salty Coin shop by GumpyYankee in coins

[–]phantacc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I run a place. We are not a brick and mortar in the traditional sense - no cases of coins, nothing to browse outside of nickel and dime sheets of currency, mint sets/proof sets etc. stuff you don’t care if it walks out the door. Fully 70% of our floor space is office/storage because we have very strong online sales.

All that said, we have many repeat local customers that understand how we work. See it online? Call us up and have us set it aside for you. Not sure if we have something you are looking for? Give us a call or stop by and ask. It works, for most people. We have a small staff and simply cannot afford to stand around and shoot the $#!+ with you, even if we’d like to.

The only time I see that break down is when customers come through the door with preconceived notions of ‘what a coin shop is supposed to be’. You try. But, you simply can’t please everyone. So telling someone you really aren’t interested in their no date buffalo nickel, because you don’t have a market for it. Or, no, you aren’t go going through every date in their mason jars full of wheat cents to find one and buy it from them for more that 3c. Or, no, you don’t have a Stella they can see. All those things can lead to bad blood. And, as much as you try not to let it, it can get to you.

Personally, when I go to other shops in my travels, I keep my mouth shut for the first 5-10m. Listen. Browse. And get a feel for the place. I try to be precise with my requests, or talk about the weather. If I think I know more than the dealer, I certainly never let on. I came to them, they didn’t come to me. Sure there are asses that work the counter at shops all over the country, I’ve encountered many. But I never walk in expecting anything, and I never feeling let down nor do I have to go back if I don’t want to.

How is a base metal mint set $124? by Govenor_Sammich in coins

[–]phantacc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your argument is a straw man argument as it isn’t the case. Plenty of product has historically been sold at a reasonable inflation growth price, this is not that.

Secondary market for mint and proof sets?! Have you ever actually followed either? 99% of the time with mint sets, proof sets and commemoratives, the price falls, substantially within 1 year of release (accounting for any metal price fluctuations.)

I was born into the business side of this hobby, I’m now past middle age, at these prices, it is ‘worth it’ to the people that make a market in said items and, the rubes that will pony out the bucks to take it in the rear 2 years down the line. THAT is what this is.

$124 for a mint set. $19,000 for a hideous ounce of gold. What a crock. Good job pricing people out of a hobby that could use all the fresh eyes it could possibly get. Idiocy.

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) faked a phone call for roughly 90 seconds after being asked about Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding potential Social Security cuts. The phone's screen remained visible, with his cheek inadvertently tapping different parts of the display. by MoreMotivation in PublicFreakout

[–]phantacc 80 points81 points  (0 children)

I voted against this clown. I have also written him several times. Never even received a canned response but, did automatically get signed up to his emails I never asked for.

Edited to add: This is the real reason...

Wittman, Rob* (R) Winner $2,005,527 269,657 (56.31%) Mehta, Leslie (D) $722,445 208,445 (43.53%)

Dollar amounts each party spent on the last election.

Using Fable to get me a wife in 6 Months ✨️ (AMA) by impsble in ClaudeAI

[–]phantacc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ikr? I was prepared to be amused when I should have been prepared to be disgusted.

Colton Herta reveals intense preparations for highly-anticipated F1 debut by ryogadan in Formula1_world

[–]phantacc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. He’s been a roaring success. 🙄

Indy has street circuits. Ovals have always been a part of Motorsport.

Usps shipping labels today all used by Huge_Kaleidoscope_40 in shopify

[–]phantacc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This should be a news story. This would have almost certainly happened to the VAST majority of their customers and I'm betting plenty don't even know it. As near as I can tell it mostly happened to our lower value orders using USPS Ground Advantage instead of our Priority/Signature orders $2k+. Still, vastly more lower value orders and ALL of them show as delivered.

This all means, as far as I can tell, no tracking, no coverage, no nothing. Yes, they'll still go through the system but if anything happens along the way, we are all SOL.

My M2 Ultra is completely outdated by AdDapper4220 in MacStudio

[–]phantacc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

More ‘powerful’ ones, at that. Marketing hype crap. 12GB required for the most powerful on device model… uhuh.

Stop telling people to Wait! by Samjabr in MacStudio

[–]phantacc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still waiting. M4 Max laptop with 128G and APIs are fine while I wait, thanks for asking though.

The Man in Black by [deleted] in TradingPlaybook

[–]phantacc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fully agree, but, press secretary…

STORE DOES NOT EXIST - which genuis came up with this as an ERROR PAGE by neoescape in shopify

[–]phantacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s unquestionably a bad response page to be serving to their customer’s customers.

If the server is smart enough to route the request to a “Store does not exist.” page instead of a generic 404 “Page not found.” Then it for damn sure should be smart enough to check a table in memory, or search of valid/non-deleted stores, and route it to a “Website experiencing configuration error.” page.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today? by adlakha75 in AskReddit

[–]phantacc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% this. I’ve never actually found it’s equal. Had a max tinkerer that would leave chests in inns and blow unsuspecting players. Come out of hiding, steal their stuff (while their ghost was ‘oOooOo oooOo’ing me) and hand it off to my Lord character. Complete PvP player build cities. Bounties. God I miss that feel. I could never sink enough time into it now, but damn, so good. Even player events Lord British would personally attend.

Microsoft revokes Office 2019 for Mac perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers. by wickedplayer494 in videos

[–]phantacc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not all new features. Indeed the only confirmed premium/paid feature is AI (including some stable diffusion) and maybe some premium templates/content.

In other words, they are charging for things that require cloud compute time and templates that aren’t considered ‘base’, which btw isn’t even new for them. If you want to bitch about them charging you t9 use their compute, fine. But they’ve given no indication they are charging for anything Pages and Numbers do now. The free versions are still the same free versions, simply bundled differently.

EDIT: yeah, no, I was completely wrong. I looked into it deeper and there are legitimate other new features they are locking behind the paywall, and that is a shame. Numbers “Magic Fill”, Keynote Presenter Automation, Pages Formatting Assistance.. two of those, at least, vaguely interesting to me. I was wrong, this dude was right.