The London Mint Office - scam?

abbaeyes

Please stay away from the London Mint, I am talking through experience.
I sent off for the free penny in 2008-2009, can’t remember exactly, and then I kept receiving coins which I never wanted or requested. I wrote and phoned them to explain and requested they took my name off their database, I was assured they would, (luckily I kept all correspondence) and then on Friday 26.11.10 I received a 50p coin out of the blue.
I phoned them again and they came up with some lies that it was a database glitch???!!!!????
Does anyone know who I could report them to, or is it worth going to trading standards???
thanks

Browntoa

I'd write to them registered post stating that you have previously informed them that you are to be removed from their database and that under DSR (Distance selling Regs) you are treating the item as "unsolicited goods" and that they can , at their expense, recover the goods if they so wish

You may advise the sender in writing that you don't want the goods and say where they can be collected. However, a consumer is under no obligation to do so. Under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, it is a criminal offence to demand payment for unsolicited goods from a consumer. Any goods delivered can be kept, for free, by the consumer.

abbaeyes

thanks for that info, I have drafted a letter to them and will quote the DSR regulations.
Here's hoping I will never hear from them again.

anewman

Send it recorded delivery, once it has been delivered just leave them to it and let them send the court summons IMO (which they probably won't do).

Dawnrazor

The scam is paying £29.95 for a penny.

Slinky

Dawnrazor wrote: »

The scam is paying £29.95 for a penny.

Why drag this up? This thread is years old

Spartacus_Mills

Slinky wrote: »

Why drag this up? This thread is years old

Good point, well made.

madnumismatist

I am new to all this forum stuff, so I hope I am not breaking the etiquette anywhere, but I watched the latest Southpark, episode 2 series 16, and the next day saw an advertisement. The two events made me create a post which I copied below purely for entertainment purposes:


I caught episode 2, season 3, of Southpark and as the hipsters say these days ROFLMAO.

I really should not say that because, the episode covered something, as they often do, that is deeply disturbing.

Corporations preying on the less informed, elderly, and let's just those: "one brick short of a full load."

As the episode is described by Comedy Central:

"Cartman launches a gemstones network show and creates a very lucrative business. Stan searches for the real value of a piece of jewelry that was a gift from his Grandpa. Meanwhile, Cartmans lucrative new business preys upon an extremely vulnerable clientele."

Basically, a member of the cast receives a gift of jewellery from his grandfather. His grandfather had bought the item as an investment; an heirloom, after watching the television. He had paid "only" $6,000, because the guy on TV said it was worth "a billion" but "discounted for the next lucky caller".

Made of 14K gold, with semi precious gems embedded, and being a little garish, Stan decided to get the cash back using the local "Cashforgold" set up.

The first shop offered $10, the second about $15, even the local laundrywoman offered $20.

Outraged that his grandfather had spent $6,000 and he had received $10 back, young Stan seeks a reckoning.

First he assails the gold buyers, and then the gold sellers, then the gold producers, eventually arriving at an Asian sweatshop where young children manufacture the items.

As the program pithily ends, a flow model of overpriced jewellery melted into bullion, shipped to Asia, made into jewellery and shipped back to America to be sold to home shopping viewers.

Fantastic.

The heartbreaking thing is that, for the most part, it is accurate.

One only has to look at the UK television ad's for dodgy looking coins and collectables to realize how the scam works. It should be noted that these companies are multinational, multimillion dollar corporations making huge profits from peoples fear.

Just today I saw a full page advertisement in a national news paper offering £2 worth of pocket change for only £20 per month; plus shipping.

Don't delay because their pocket change may run out.

During 2008 only 2 billion, 181 million coins were made. That means just three coins for every single man woman and child on the planet.

Hurry, hurry, step right up for the elixir of wealth, oh and you get a nice box; with a key too!

The sooner people realize, these dodgy rarities, the better off they will be.

Rare coins are not manufactured; RARE coins are freaks of monetary history. That is why they are rare.

123jd

Do not buy anything from london mint..they are a massive scam. sadly my dad passed away last year and we found coins that he had been collecting which are worth nothing but cost him thousands of pounds..they pray on the elderly who think that they are worth alot of money, they had my dads bank details & kept taking money off him..even when he died they was still sending coins but because we cancelled his bank they sent us invoices of payment, i rang them and told them they was not getting a penny..please please do not waste your money on these useless peices of crap..

KiKi

This thread is from 2009...