Living in Pennsylvania

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

My 2nd ex-wife's, brother's ex-wife, was married to a guy that spent much of his time in SE Asia arranging to have things made for the mint. When they gave up all pretense it wasn't all made over there, and people discovered collectibles ain't, the mint packed it in around here. Why keep an expensive facility going. They also were in trouble with the Southwest Delaware County Municipal Authority for dumping too much silver in the sewer.

Didn't the owner start QVC?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Didn't the owner start QVC?

Yeah, he did. He sold Franklin to a big communications company that was too dumb to see the market had peaked. When they finally caught on, they sold it to a guy and his wife for something like $150 million....then it tanked.