u/Embarrassed-Spare524

[Scammer?] Hi, I'm making pasta and meatballs today. Would you like to have dinner with me?

[Me] I assume this is a wrong number, and not some bizarre scam, catfishing or sex thing. Also, I can't eat tomato sauce.

[Scammer?] When did you and I start talking like this? I'm jus tryint ot understand why your talking to me this way. Don't you have my work number saved on your phone? Hmmm.

I get that this is a scam and that I was "talking" to an AI. I just got a somewhat similar text from a different number. But I don't know exactly how the scam would have worked. How the heck do they get anyone to give a credit card or something from that opening?

Significant mystery water outflow from the home. Constant. The main pipe in the basement is warm. All obvious sources checked, sinks, toilets, fridge, washer, dishwasher, outside faucets. Its less than those sources would normally sound like, but significant and constant. I'm stumped and going to call a plumber unless any of you all can help. Any guidance appreciated!

When my dad passed, I recovered my childhood coin collection, and Dad's mostly typically poorly thought out small colleciton. Talking 16 Bicentenial Ikes and things like that - spent those. Over the years, I had tried to take back my personal collection and he refused. I didn't fight him on it, but it was always an annoyance.

I've become interested, following the reddits, but I don't really know how to get back into it. There are no true coin shops that close to where I live. There is one that might have made sense once in a while, but I just saw that they are asking $100 for a NGC certified Morgan that NGC says is worth $55, so it seems like it wouldn't be a great experience.

A coin show seems like really taking the plunge, but I guess that will have to be the way? There is a monthly free one in Central Jersey attended by 75 dealers.

Any other suggestions?

This is a picture of one of two wax envelopes storing these. They are all unused, butsome seem to be sticking to each other and I'm not sure they can be separated without damage. I'm not sure this is even worth fussing with?

Any guidance appreciated

I have around 20 Canadian silver quarters, a bunch of Roosevelt dimes, and a bunch of Mercury dimes. Some of the Mercury dimes may have a bit of nusimatic value, since I collected as a kid and may have paid 20 or 30 bucks for a few of them. So I'll have to sort through the dimes. I doubt it will add up to more than a couple hundred bucks worth of melt.

I have a pawn shop I can get a decent pawn shop type price from - as far as melt value anyway. Should I just deal with them or is there a better way?

As a retired lawyer, I like to try to answer questions when I can. However, I've never been in small claims, and don't have insight into the following situation which comes up regularly:

(1) person believes mechanic screwed them;

(2) they take it to a different mechanic that supports them;

(3) the claim is not large enough to support paying the second mechanic to testify live at small claims.

In this situation, if they ask the second mechanic to stick their conclusions on the invoice in detail, the invoice probably no longer qualifies as a business record and should therefore be hearsay and not considered by the court. Technically, the hearsay rule should be enforced in small claims, but with small claims being less formal and often more flexible, and the application of the rule to this situation not being completely straightforward, I don't know how many small claims judges would exclude this type of evidence.

I usually tell people to give the "loaded invoice" a try in the belief that it will likely work at least some of the time. Thoughts?

I'm in NJ, but I'm interested in any learning on how this generally goes in any small claims court.