What's your opinion on this?

VonZipper

If you purchased a coin on ebay from a seller and the seller is still using the image of your coin with the exact same pcgs number to sell other same year coins, what would you do?

Placid

Be happy he thought your coin was nice enough to use as a example

Clankeye

That's an interesting question. From what I understand whoever took the photo has rights to it. Is the auction worded in any way that it would seem the buyer is getting the coin pictured? Are there more than one coin listed in quantity?

VonZipper

Placid- thanks good point.

Clankeye- they don't say you will receive this coin or another just like it,just hit me weird when I saw it.Now I just received it today and maybe they dont have any other pictures, but you would think they would show the one for sale this time. Thanks



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Placid

Oh that's not very good then. E-mail him and suggest he add the coin pictured is not the actual coin.

It might be considered bait-n-switch.

Clankeye

Yeah, for a coin like that you want to know you are looking at the one you are going to get. I kind of have a feeling that an honest mistake was made here. I've done business with these guys, and they seemed honest and pretty concerned with me being satisfied with everything. They have a lot of coins going at once on eBay. A mistake on the picture is very possible.

Russ

<< <i>I kind of have a feeling that an honest mistake was made here. >>



I tend to agree. My experience with them has also been positive.

Russ, NCNE

GAT

This is a common practice on eBay. I have E-mailed sellers questioning this practice and have been told they have multiple coins which are the same. I never bid on these coins and place the sellers on my no bid list.

Russ

<< <i>This is a common practice on eBay. >>



This is not a common practice with this seller.

Russ, NCNE

GAT

Maybe not common with this seller but I have encountered this often on eBay. There's a seller right now selling slabbed common Walkers that hasn't changed his pictures in weeks. They are always the same old green PCGS small slab.

VonZipper

Russ

This was the first dealing with this company and everything went fine, I value your opinion and I think I will let it slide as long as it isn't used for months then I might email them. Just wanted some feedback on what other people thought.My thanks to everyone who responded.

Clankeye

You should e-mail and point it out to them. Knowing this outfit, I'll bet they would very much like to know. It could save them a potential headache down the road, if a buyer wins the auction and then is disappointed because he thought he was getting a different coin. Point it out. You can't lose anything. They might appreciate it.

mnmcoin

Fairtraderz can be trusted, they just sometimes let things like this happen. Nice pickup by the way, 25 bucks is way too cheap for that coin.

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hughesm1

I'd be disturbed. First I'd email the seller about it. If it truly is an honest mistake than little harm done, but if not my future dealings with that seller would become very suspicious, if not stop altogether.

1jester

Welcome, GAT!

In my opinion, it is extremely dishonest and fraudulent to use any other picture than one of the exact coin you are selling. There are a couple of exceptions to this, in my opinion, already mentioned on this thread: 1) honest mistake, which should be corrected in the future. 2) in rare cases when the seller doesn't have access to a camera/scanner, etc, and CLEARLY labels that the coin in the picture is NOT the one he is selling. 3) occasionally to show comparisons, or otherwise represent a similar item (but everything should be CLEARLY labeled and described. I think all other uses of a different picture than one of the coin being sold clearly constitutes bait and switch, and/or fraud.

windwhispersintrees

Coin collectors are harmed by letting misrepresentations "slide." Report it to ebay, since it is fraud. Intentional or not, the auction needs to be corrected immediately.