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So I sold my first WI extra leaf quarters on January 25th. Here, in part, was my listing (item number 3954621402):
"All of the major coin publications, websites, and blogs have been abuzz with word about these fascinating errors, and the mainstream media is beginning to pick up the story.
More importantly to collectors, the two main 3rd party grading companies (PCGS and NGC) have begun to recognize and designate these important new errors. And the main industry periodical, Coin World, is reporting this week that the 2006 edition of the bible of American coins: A Guide Book of United States Coins (commonly called the “Red Book”), will recognize both the upper and lower varieties! Not a single other variety has been recognized by the Red Book in the history of the State Quarter program.
This four-coin set contains one each of the 2004-d “extra leaf high” variety, the 2004-d “extra leaf low” variety, the standard 2004-d without extra leaf, and even a 2004-p without extra leaf. That’s the complete set of business strike Wisconsin quarters.
The US Mint has recently released the 2004 quarter mintage figures, and Wisconsin has a surprisingly low mintage. In fact, in the six years that the State Quarter program has been running, only Maine has a smaller mintage!
With low mintage, excellent condition, extreme rarity, and demand literally in the millions, these extra leaf quarters are set to become the most important collectible coin discovery in fifty years."
And here is what another eBayer has for their current listing (item number 3956314942):
"All of the major coin publications, and websites have been abuzz with word about these fascinating errors, and the mainstream media is beginning to pick up the story.
More importantly to collectors, the two main 3rd party grading companies (PCGS and NGC) have begun to recognize and designate these important new errors. And the main industry periodical, Coin World, is reporting this week that the 2006 edition of the bible of American coins: A Guide Book of United States Coins (commonly called the “Red Book”), will recognize both the upper and lower varieties! Not a single other variety has been recognized by the Red Book in the history of the State Quarter program.
The US Mint has recently released the 2004 quarter mintage figures, and Wisconsin has a surprisingly low mintage. In fact, in the six years that the State Quarter program has been running, only Maine has a smaller mintage!
With low mintage, rarity, and demand literally in the millions, these extra leaf quarters are set to become an important collectible coin."
There is a subtle similarity, no? Would that make you mad?
"All of the major coin publications, websites, and blogs have been abuzz with word about these fascinating errors, and the mainstream media is beginning to pick up the story.
More importantly to collectors, the two main 3rd party grading companies (PCGS and NGC) have begun to recognize and designate these important new errors. And the main industry periodical, Coin World, is reporting this week that the 2006 edition of the bible of American coins: A Guide Book of United States Coins (commonly called the “Red Book”), will recognize both the upper and lower varieties! Not a single other variety has been recognized by the Red Book in the history of the State Quarter program.
This four-coin set contains one each of the 2004-d “extra leaf high” variety, the 2004-d “extra leaf low” variety, the standard 2004-d without extra leaf, and even a 2004-p without extra leaf. That’s the complete set of business strike Wisconsin quarters.
The US Mint has recently released the 2004 quarter mintage figures, and Wisconsin has a surprisingly low mintage. In fact, in the six years that the State Quarter program has been running, only Maine has a smaller mintage!
With low mintage, excellent condition, extreme rarity, and demand literally in the millions, these extra leaf quarters are set to become the most important collectible coin discovery in fifty years."
And here is what another eBayer has for their current listing (item number 3956314942):
"All of the major coin publications, and websites have been abuzz with word about these fascinating errors, and the mainstream media is beginning to pick up the story.
More importantly to collectors, the two main 3rd party grading companies (PCGS and NGC) have begun to recognize and designate these important new errors. And the main industry periodical, Coin World, is reporting this week that the 2006 edition of the bible of American coins: A Guide Book of United States Coins (commonly called the “Red Book”), will recognize both the upper and lower varieties! Not a single other variety has been recognized by the Red Book in the history of the State Quarter program.
The US Mint has recently released the 2004 quarter mintage figures, and Wisconsin has a surprisingly low mintage. In fact, in the six years that the State Quarter program has been running, only Maine has a smaller mintage!
With low mintage, rarity, and demand literally in the millions, these extra leaf quarters are set to become an important collectible coin."
There is a subtle similarity, no? Would that make you mad?
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<< <i> C'mon, baby. You know the boy can WRITE
no offense meant. i don't think it's uncommon for people to 'borrow' verbage from web sites and publications to provide technical or verifiable info for their auction descriptions. Those kind of descriptions i really wouldn't have a problem with someone "borrowing" from me.
If i spent some time describing and wording an auction from my own knowledge and experience, and then someone used it, i might be more inclined to have a problem with it.
On the other hand, if i had sold an item, and had no more to sell or for sale, i might just ignore it and consider it flattering.
it can be looked at both ways i guess.
Have you decided what you might do about your situation ?
I guess that should make me feel bad. No one wants to steal my stuff
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Have you decided what you might do about your situation ? >>
I hadn't really planned on doing anything about it. I mean, I could email the person, but it's not like I could force them not to use my words. I guess I'd be more pissed if I was running several auctions for the same thing, and that person was making me compete against my own verbage. In fact, that scenario would have played out tonight had I not re-written my own copy, auction 3957581845.
And it did take some time to write the copy, to check it against the sources, etc.
I put my eBay ID on the images I used in my last auction, but you can't really do that with words. Although...I wonder if you could use a copyright tag at the bottom?
--Severian the Lame