I..HATE...this kinda stuff...but...a "trust" issue..??

topstuf · May 13, 2005 9:19AM

ebay seller with well over a hundred feedback and 100% positive. Previous sales in the 60-250 range. All positive. A few from a multiple buyer. Member since 2003

NOW.....a couple thousand dollar coin.

Any advice? "When in doubt, don't?"

I dunno.

Nice coin though.

streeter · May 13, 2005 9:27AM

2 large =sight seen coins. No exceptions.

longtimecollector · May 13, 2005 9:29AM

My first sale on Ebay was a $1200.00 + coin........ get a return privelige and go for it

ColonialCoinUnion · May 13, 2005 10:02AM

I recently bought a $3000 coin from a seller with 99.9% positive feedback, but most of his other auctions seemed to be in the less than $100 range.

My sale turned out fine, but I was concerned about. It is prudent for you to be as well.

If you get a return priviledge, pay by paypal, etc., I'd say its worth the risk as long as there are no other reasons to doubt the seller.

topstuf · May 13, 2005 11:35AM

I haven't heard back yet, but I also asked if he had any .....NON.... ebay refs.

roadrunner · May 13, 2005 11:45AM

Tuff situation, and eventually if you do it often enough you'll get scammed. But the odds are probably low. I recently had a similar situation with a guy who had sold computer parts and coins under $100. Bam.... then he put up an early NGC holdered 09s VDB in 65RB that looked like a 66 RD. I just didn't have the guts to trust him. I sent some emails to feel him out and he seemed to have the right answers: he was a collector starting to sell some of his early holdered coins. I bid on a nice better date MS65 early holdered silver dollar and won it for $560. The coin was a killer and I turned down offers of 10% higher as soon as I got it. Guess I shouldnt' have passed on the Lincoln.

I'd say feel out the seller and do what you can do to protect yourself. But there is never any shame in passing.

roadrunner

topstuf · May 15, 2005 7:40AM

I'ze out. The bids coming in are from zero or low feedback bidders who buy 99 cent gizmos.

I smell ..... shill.

No refs outside ebay.

Just doesn't SMELL right.

I can wait.

topstuf · May 17, 2005 2:25AM

Ahhhhhhh...... suspicion is so sweet.

I sent an email to the winning bidder (who sells lots of coins on ebay) to tell him I was an interested buyer if he was going to resell the coin but was "chicken" to deal with the seller.

He responded that it was indeed a scam.

Ahhhhhhhh.......

topstuf · May 17, 2005 8:35AM

Just gets better'n better, don't it? Just heard from the successful bidder that he......LUCKILY..... got an angel email from a police department informing him that the coin had been sold BEFORE.

And the buyer never got the coin.

The 1st (as far as I know) seller is NARU now.

I hope those "angel" cops use their wings and fly over to the ...latest.... seller and have a little TALK with him.

Scary stuff. My contemplated bid would have been less than 20 bucks under the winning bid. I would have gone to 4200 or so. Eeeeechhh....and ....I.... might not have got a call from the PD.

I..HATE...this kinda stuff...but...a "trust" issue..??

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