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They haven't done anything so far. The tracked letter was signed for by one of them at 11:32 am yesterday, and I didn't even get so much as an acknowledgement afterwards. It doesn't take long to make a payment to someone's bank account - a 5 minute job at most. Am I being unreasonable in expecting this to have been done by now? I'll call them tomorrow. If I don't get any joy, I'm lodging a complaint with paypal, as it was one of those where the buyer pays 2 weeks down the line, although the seller gets the payment immediately. This is quite definitively the last time I ever buy from them, regardless of what they have in stock.

Sent you a PM.

Just received this quality e mail from Spink:- Dear Friends and Clients, You will have received numerous similar emails in the last few days from all your main providers of goods and services. Like all other emails, this is to confirm to you Spink will operate in full compliance with all health and safety recommendations, and that your safety and the safety of our staff is of paramount importance to us. However, we realise that many of our customers are currently confined to their homes, or soon will be. We also understand for those who are confined at home, in addition to spending quality time with their loved ones, quite a few will spend more time with their personal collections to try to take their mind away from the current Covid19 crisis and its trail of desolation. Also as most of you already know, our SpinkLive live auction platform and e-auctions are widely acclaimed as best-in-class by many collectors. If you have not yet tried it please download it from the App Store for Apple and from the Google Play for Android. This is why we have decided to continue our auction program for as long as we can. Even if confinement in London or New York is ordered for all its population, we will do our best to continue to operate from our homes. The bright news is that our Hong Kong office, which was severely affected two months ago, has continued to operate efficiently through the crisis and things start to look better again there. So, there is light at the end of the tunnel when people follow the sanitary instructions to protect the community. The auction rooms might be a bit less attended than a few months ago, but it will just be a continuation of a trend, which has been present for many years as room bidders in many auctions now account for less than 10-15% of the successful buyers. So, our next auction, The "Dubois" British Commonwealth Collection of Stamps and Covers will start on 18 March at 10 AM at Royal Philatelic Society, London (HQ). AUCTION CALENDAR British Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction | 24 March | 10 AM (GMT) Prof. Yih-Tzong Hsu Collection of World Banknotes | 7 April | 10 AM (BST) World Banknotes | 7 April | 12 PM || 8 April | 10 AM (BST) Charity Auction of Bank of England Notes | 8 April | 5 PM (BST) The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale | 14 April | 2:30 PM || 15 April | 10:30 AM (BST) British Borneo Stamps and Covers | 16 April | 10:30 AM (BST) Orders, Decorations and Medals | 22 April | 10 AM (BST) Feel free to contact our specialists by email or telephone if you want to discuss some collectables you might wish to sell (after sorting some duplicates for example), or to get a condition report on a lot coming to auction, or simply to have a chat about your area of collecting because you are just suffering from the “social distancing” now imposed on many of us. Finally, I would like to thank all the staff at Spink who are dedicated to providing continuous service to you over the next few weeks, months and years. Hopefully, without interruption. You might find us too optimistic, maybe it is in our DNA, as within a month of being set up in 1666, Spink had to face the black plague and the Great Fire of London. Please stay safe, follow the rules, so together our communities can defeat this nasty virus as soon as possible, and we can all go back to what is the spirit of life, human interaction and new adventures. Yours truly, Olivier D. Stocker Group Chairman & CEO ____________________________________________________________ We are here to help, please contact us at concierge@spink.com SPINK LONDON 67-69 Southampton Row | Bloomsbury | WC1B 4ET | United Kingdom STAMPS | COINS | BANKNOTES | MEDALS | BONDS & SHARES | AUTOGRAPHS | BOOKS WINE & SPIRITS | HANDBAGS | COLLECTIONS | ADVISORY SERVICES | SPECIAL COMMISSIONS LONDON | NEW YORK | HONG KONG | SINGAPORE | SWITZERLAND

I have asked for them. My e mail was as follows:- I forgot to include the 70p cost of the jiffy envelope. Never mind. It'll be interesting to see what their response is. On a separate note, I have never seen the town so deserted. In the post office, I was served immediately as there was no-one else in there.

All sensible stuff. I did like this tongue in cheek contribution:-

His test came back negative.....the devil looks after his own.

Well that's a relief ......

Not yet - the incubation period is not up. On a pragmatic level, just because you have contact with someone who tests positive, doesn't inevitably mean you will get the disease yourself.

Job's a good' un

BREAKING: The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

At first glance MS62 seems overgraded. But would need to see in hand. Certainly not got much eye appeal - IMO any rate.

Heard back from them now - they've apologised and offered me my money back or a credit note. Fair enough

It is a very nice looking coin.

Well it definitely won't go out of my head again, Ian - that's for sure !!! I still haven't had an e mail reply from Ingram. I'm wondering how long to give it before I call them.

Obviously really likes F90's.

Thanks Ian. Any thoughts as to what that protrusion is?

Old Walter Gabriel.......

I won't be impressed if I don't also get back the £9.00 paypal fee, which was on top of the price of the coin, and if I'm not also re-imbursed for the next day tracked delivery postage payable on returning the item to them. Although given their track record at royally pissing off others here previously, I'm not holding my breath.

I needed a decent F114, as my current one isn't that great. So, despite a poor pic through a slab on their website, I ordered one described as GEF. Even though the descriptive bit of the slab was not included in the photo. Took a chance, but wish I hadn't. The coin arrived today and clearly shows that the dies are described as Gouby R + r, which is a F115. A F114 is R + p. Idiots.

It's interesting Bob. Hiram had the two F90's in his collection, the first of which went on 12th February, also at a DNW auction, for less than half the price of the latest one. The first one did have a bit of a ding from obverse to reverse, but otherwise wasn't too bad. At any rate, I wouldn't have thought it was worth just half of today's offering, which is sub fine, but issue free. £5,500 hammer, and off the top of my head calculation wise, a bit over £7k with the premium.

Anybody here get lot 103, the 1877 narrow date penny at today's DNW auction? It went for £5,500. Didn't expect it to make that much.

Very clever - love it.

Rather pleased to have obtained a 1918H penny with a fully struck up breastplate and reasonable hair detail. It's very difficult to find specimens with a good strike to both obverse and reverse. This one is otherwise only about EF, with a tiny trace of lustre in the legend, but it's the rest of it which appealed to me. My previous one was not as good, and has been consigned to the oddments drawer.