Ebay Coin Chat Room

bestbino

Has anyone visited the Ebay Coin Chat room and what is your opinion of it. ??????????

cladking

<< <i>Has anyone visited the Ebay Coin Chat room and what is your opinion of it. ?????????? >>



If any of these guys really had something to say they'd come to one of the
several real message boards. Not some hoity toity place where you have to give
them a credit card number just to register.


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K6AZ

My opinion is to stay away. Ebay rules those boards with an iron fist and stifles free speech. There are also a few idiots that habitate those boards that don't know the first thing about what they are talking about. Ebay also likes to suspend accounts of those who disagree with their chosen few.

IdahoGal

I actually found this board through a post on the eBay coin chat board...

Louis

<< <i>I actually found this board through a post on the eBay coin chat board... >>



Thats one thing eBay did right, glad you're here.

ccex

It's always been a waste of time when I've looked in there. eBay's rules prohibit discussion of anything controversial, and everyone there seems to go to bed early, after talking about each other instead of coins.

IdahoGal

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<< <i>I actually found this board through a post on the eBay coin chat board... >>



Thats one thing eBay did right, glad you're here. >>



Thanks!

bestbino

Well my experience was they seem to be more interested in each others kid's Soccer Game then Coins.
It felt like I was pulling teeth trying to get any information.
I am glad I found this place. I might actually learn something.

coppercoins

I spent almost two years going there every day, and while I do have my faults, I found that there are a number of people there who have serious personal problems that they like to take out on just about anyone, especially those who they have decided they do not like. There is a clique consisting of a short number of members, and if you are not a part of that clique or if you don't agree with everything that clique says, they ensure your experience there is a miserable one - and they have memories like steel traps - they NEVER forget grudges.

Best advice - stick with this forum. It is much more informative, a lot less personal, and stores messages long enough that people can actually get some use out of them. eBay doesn't archive their chat boards, so once you roll down to post #200, it's adios.

lordmarcovan

I started out there. It was my introduction to netiquette. I was one of the trolls there.

Well, maybe not quite. I did learn something from the people there, and a few of 'em followed me over here eventually.

But I like to post a lot, and that board is so slow-moving that I soon overwhelmed it and everyone there. Chatted their chatboard to death.

It's much nicer here, where there is room to roam and spread out a bit. Not even I can post to every topic here, let alone read 'em all.

There is a forum for practically all of my interests. And if I get goofy, there is always the Open Forum.

Spinynorman

A waste of time pretty much sums it up...

numonebuyer

I started out there and drop in every now and a again to see if anything has changed. That room pointed me here where I recognized a few others that came from there. Trying to discuss coins (especially Morgans) in detail in that room is very difficult. It does seem to shut down early every night, and there are a handful of regulars that make it their room.

On the plus side, it does provide help to newbies, so it isn't all bad.

oreville

I have probably been in that ebay coin chat room as long as anyone. The best way to describe that chat room is that it is schizo. Coppercoins explained it best when explaining that some never forget grudges.

Sometimes it can be very good. Very, very good. Other times, simply awful. On a given day, you don't know whach way it will turn.

I have met some great numismatists personally through that ebay chat room including lordmarcovan, purplescarf and pennyman, etc. I have chatted long hours into the night with coppercoins and also many others including numonebuyer and many others who have come over here.

One poster in particular was driven to stop drinking after 25 years when he endured the great PATINA debate that took well over 24 hours nearly non-stop.

I now have a lifelong friendship with purplescarf and pennyman who are both die-hard Democrats while I continue in my Republican ways!

I do pop in there to make sure my friend now called patina-patina has not gone back to drinking!

lordmarcovan

Oreville was one of the better ones I met there. Even got to meet him in person, later.

lordmarcovan

I had forgotten about the great PATINA wars.

numonebuyer

Oreville was the first person to chat with me when I was a NEWBIE.



Coppercoins (aka Cdstamps) and I had some really long conversations from time to time.



I agree with both of their posts. There are some great people on that board. I am happy to see that a few of them made it to this board.

stman

<< <i>Sometimes it can be very good. Very, very good. Other times, simply awful. On a given day, you don't know whach way it will turn. >>



Sounds like a marriage I was once involved in.