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E-bay seller bait and switch!!!

MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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I just received a coin in the mail today I bought on E-Bay. It was a low feedback user, but everybody has to start somewhere. First of all the coin came in an envelope with no return address, it came wrapped in newspaper and here is a picture of the coin in the auction and what I received. I have E-Mailed the seller telling him I want to return the coin, but thought I'd share here..

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Link to auction!!!
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you complaining that the one you got is missing the fingerprint? image

    Edited to add: Maybe he carried it in his pocket to the post office.
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    MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Man! What a difference! I'd be PO'd!
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    airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 21,983 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Man! What a difference! I'd be PO'd! >>


    Difference? What difference? I don't see a difference
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    jakemrjrjakemrjr Posts: 98 ✭
    wow, shipping these days really must wear down the coin. image

    Check out the nice rim ding in the coin he sent you.
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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazing what lighting can do when you take a picture...

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,515 ✭✭✭
    Uh, Marty, did you really expect to get a 1942 proof Walker in that condition for only $11.50? My hunch is that this seller either doesn't have a camera/scanner or is lazy and kyped the pic from another auction.

    Russ, NCNE
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    I want what the picture in the auction shows!!! BTW I have picked up some nice MS walkers in the $10-$20 range. I want the one with the fingerprint!!!! Everyone else has fingerprint coins, I want one damnit!!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    the desc. in the listing says "very good condition".
    I'd say that's about right!image

    I smell a BIG negative in willpittman's near future
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    If the seller sends me a refund, I won't neg him. Maybe a neutral, but if he does not comtact me, then I'll neg him, and have to take the retalatory neg...
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 21,983 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Amazing what lighting can do when you take a picture... >>


    Not true... notice the skirt lines... they're in the sellers picture, but not Marty's... different coin
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,515 ✭✭✭
    Jeremy,

    I think he was being facetious.image

    Russ, NCNE
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    PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,301 ✭✭✭
    Well at least you got a bargain on that $145,000 coin image
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    pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    lol...she mustve took a wrong turn and walked thru that hurricane before turning for your place image
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    SpoolySpooly Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭
    You have to love the rim ding! image
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    lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    The seller owes you the coin pictured in his ad or you money back.
    No BS about it.

    Ray
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    clevegregclevegreg Posts: 909 ✭
    Well, at least its the same date image

    I hope he makes right by you!!

    Greg
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    NoviceKrisNoviceKris Posts: 251
    Hmmm out of his big seven ratings he was only the seller once. And had lousy pics on that one item. No doubt he stole someone else's pic to post for your WL. He didnt list a refund policy but if he doesnt give you a full refund, threaten fraud to ebay because there is no way he can say the coins are the same. I wondered if anyone ever had the balls to do something like that, guess I know the answer now. Hope it works out for you. Kris
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    MrLeeMrLee Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭
    Well, he say

    << <i>VERY GOOD DETAIL! >>

    And I'd say that's a VG Walker. Really though, that's a pretty scummy thing to do. That has to be the worst bait and switch I've seen yet. I agree with Russ. He probably doesn't have a scanner and just "borrowed" a picture. He should refund the whole amount. Please keep us up-dated on what happens.
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    CoppernicusCoppernicus Posts: 1,764 ✭
    Marty - How do you spell F R A U D?

    Sorry about your loss - some ebay sellers should be drawn and quartered!

    Coppernicus
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