Chris Perkins

Ok. These things happen don't they.

Found you. I've got the original enquiry email (4/4/13) and it has a reply arrow next to it, but I don't know when I replied. The incoming messages get put in my archive folder and the sent ones get cleared out after a while, so I don't know what I replied either.

I really don't see what was obnoxious about my 1st post: "They all look like scrap to me, and currently the biggest part of my coin business is buying volume pre 1947 scrap. I don't think you're likely to get anything near those asking prices for those (apart from the odd novice who may come along). And I can't really speak for the foreign coins." Anyway, what's your surname and when was the email and I'll see if I can find it.

Perhaps there is the odd better-than-scrap coin among your coins, I got bored looking after the first ebid page. If you don't believe me, come back in here in six months and tell us honestly how many you sold at those prices? Sometimes they scan badly (higher grade coins) but generally low grade coins are easy to spot even in bad images. Post a few pictures here and users can respond with their best guessed grade. I have nothing against you posting here and showing us your ebid auctions. And you're also welcome to link to a website or your ebid auctions in your signature. Quoting: "not all of us have major businesses where we can buy coins from people as scrap grade them up and sell them at a massive increase at will in a completely unregulated industry some of us just have morals !" If you had any idea how hard I have worked, and how little profit I make on some coins (often after waiting ages) you wouldn't have said that. Scrap coins get scrapped, there are no scrap coins on predecimal.com. It's a waste of time trying to sell scrap coins individually. You clearly haven't got a clue, are a bit obnoxious and have a lot to learn. Not just about coins, but also how best to stay calm and not get rude for no reason. Take a deep breath. We really are a very friendly community here but fools aren't suffered lightly, and so far you are behaving like one.

Hmmm, the like feature has to be linked to a special kind of facebook account, that I haven't got! I was thinking about a better fb strategy for predecimal.com. What was that account you set up Dave? Perhaps we could merge and get the 'likes' etc to work.

They all look like scrap to me, and currently the biggest part of my coin business is buying volume pre 1947 scrap. I don't think you're likely to get anything near those asking prices for those (apart from the odd novice who may come along). And I can't really speak for the foreign coins.

I had heard that there was also a namesake at Manchester Uni. Not me.

Ok, but that means you'll have to let me know what you want beforehand as the system can't record a credit.

You buy it through Amazon? The sold number just crept up by 1, so I imagine that was you! Sometimes the printed version is also on Amazon, but as it's a bit scarce, people tend to ask silly money for it. I'll refund you the money for the failed buy. And I must also remember to remove it from sale.

Rich, it looks like you ordered your Standard Guide to Grading British Coins over predecimal.com, is that correct? I tried to track one down, but wasn't successful! I'm going to have to refund you I'm afraid. The eBook version is available, if that helps at all? (as epub or mobi via Amazon)

All excellent information to help me iron out the buggers for next time!

Bugger.

I had a unique lead pattern 1982 20p which was sent to the designer with RM letter dated Nov 1981. Based on that and the price it sold for, I don't think there is a chance of unique decimals raising much more than £1000 - £2000. The main reason is because the demand isn't there and nor are the collectors with the money, compared to the older material. The coins don't have any kind of almost mythical status like 1933 pennies and American rarities etc either, and possibly never will. Maybe in a couple of generations that will be different, and there are always people that seem to be able to afford and gladly pay well over the odds! With the gold 50 pees though, err, they are unique, but there are 29 of the bloody things! 29 unique 50 pees, each with a design as quickly bodged together as the next. The RM do produce very limited numbers of platinum crowns with mintage of sometimes just 150 pieces. They seem to 'sell' (assuming anyone actually buys them) for about £6400 each! Who on earth buys them? Seriously, where are the people that buy them? Anyone here ever bought one? Anyone know anyone that knows someone that has bought one? Perhaps they go to museums or into collections of super-rich people. Which is odd, because normally super-rich people are quite clever and would probably invest in platinum by buying it much closer to the bullion value. It would interest me how many of the 150 they actually sell, as the mintages the RM quote are usually maximum mintages. The expensive ones like that are made on demand. From experience, I find that the people that collect modern coins don't actually have any idea about coins and they don't usually have much money either. They have a subscription with the RM, they get them in the post and put them in drawer after looking at them once. Then they die and the coins get inherited by someone who contacts me, and I tell them that they are just worth the bullion value (which is often more than the pre 2000s coins cost because, luckily gold/silver has gone up quite a bit in that time), despite the fact that the original clueless purchaser paid 3x the then bullion value for them!

Looks a bit spammy to me. Are you real national-coin-depository?

Bugger!

Speak for yourself Dave. I'm a sophisticated coin re-ownership agent. Should be ok now. Is it?

Well that's just utter *&££&!%( isn't it! Have replaced the main infected file and my super hosting chap is looking into it.

There were other infected files on the server! The whole website has now been restored to the last good backup. The database was unchanged so that should mean that the posts/orders etc should have all remained intact. It should look fine now on every browser. As far as I can see, the hack was just malware - adverts, search engine promotion etc. Nothing harmful.

Could it be that due to the Russian incident that the cache of buttons, images etc has gone wrong? Is there a way you can do a proper hard re-fresh of the site so that it builds up the forum related things from scratch? I'm at a loss without a apple device. The file that was compromised is still in original proper state.

How is the forum now on apple devices? I found a file that had been manipulated to include a load of *&^£ and it looks like that was causing it. I'll ask my hosts tomorrow how on earth changing that file was possible.

There are various reports of Safari re-directing to Russian sites, but nothing current or in the last few weeks. Big coincidence that it's happening to a few people. Is there another way to look at websites that doesn't involve Safari of the IBP app? I assume that when apple device users access any website, it must first go through apple servers to access the others? If the apple servers somehow have the wrong dns information for predecimal.com, then it may well resolve to the wrong site. Another way to the same place is: http://www.british-coins.com/forum/ (sometimes that will re-direct to predecimal.com/forum/ , which probably doesn't help. Does it happen to all pages on predecimal.com and not just on the forum. e.g. if you try http://www.predecimal.com/selling_coins.php

Yes, someone else reported this earlier. I don't have any Apple devices either to check with. It sounds like it's a Safari problem though. Can apple users google the issue to see if it's happening with other sites....other forums for example. If it isn't, then I suppose it's possible that there has been some code inserted somewhere on predecimal.com that re-directs to the Russian, just for apple users. I'll look into it.

Exbrit is now 'fixed' with a manual email containing the epub file.

I know someone who knows the niece of Roger Waters. Those are the circles I move in.

I once had a girlfriend who's dad was in the same class as one of Deep Purple. You can't trump that!