A noteworthy experience
VarietyFan
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Fellow collectors,
I’d like to please share a recent experience that was enlightening and educational. I’m doing so because all too often we forget to appreciate those that care and treat others better than expected.
Recently I found three inexpensive but what I consider very pretty uniquely toned coins for sale on a little boutique site called e.scottcoins.com. The coins are 1951-S 1C graded ms 66 rb sn47671066 $30, 1954-S 1C ms 66 rd sn40936021 $30 and 1956-D 1C ms65 bn sn47671067 $30. I noticed that the 1951-S and 1956-D are in gold shield holders so I looked up the TrueView pictures and was taken aback. The pictures of the coins on the sales site were nothing like the TrueView pictures.
I chose not to buy the coins. I called the site and left them a message telling them how disturbing it is that they create and use such manipulated pictures. I told them they should be ashamed of themselves and especially since they toot their own horn about having accurate pictures!
Almost immediately I got a response from a fella named E.J.. He said e.scottcoins.com is his site and that he provides a money back guarantee that his pictures are accurate and unenhanced in any way. He also said he realizes talk is cheap. He said he’d send me the coins, free of charge. That once I receive them if I feel his pictures are at all inaccurate that he’ll pay the shipping and insurance to return them and pay me $40 for my time. But that if I agree that the coins look like the pictures he put on his site that I agree to send payment for the coins.
Of course I took him up on his offer. I received the coins and was both sad and thrilled. I was sad because I previously believed I was going to make an easy $40. I was thrilled because the coins were all I originally hoped they would be. His pictures of the coins are completely accurate. In fact if anything the images were over revealing of detail and the coins look better in hand than in his images. I love the coins!
Upon receiving the coins I wrote and expressed my appreciation for his ethics and behaving in a manner that, even though my purchases were minimal, made me feel valued and appreciated. I also communicated feeling very upset in seeing how inaccurate the TrueView pictures are. This is where, in my opinion, he not only showed a lot of class but (at the risk of embarrassing myself) taught me a lesson. He said PCGS does a fabulous job overall and he fully supports them. He said "they’re humans and even the best get it a little wrong once in a while”.
It was a refreshing and, in my humble opinion, noteworthy experience. Beyond being really happy with my little purchase I feel like I made a trustworthy friend and that always feels nice.
Here’s pictures of the two coins in the gold shield holders:
**1951-S TrueView **
1951-S from e.scottcoins.com
1956-D TrueView
1956-D from e.scottcoins.com
Thanks for the opportunity to share. 
Ken
Comments
oh! those are nice well done
Glad it worked out for you. Lighting has a big effect on a coin pic.😎