Alfred E. Neuman and the lazy poster
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The lazy poster is me. The company with the what-me-worry attitude is Vendio dba eBay.
I buy and sell mostly Barber dimes on eBay. I'm working on a "perfect" G-VG+ set and a
set of XF+ toners. I sell my dupes to finance upgrading.
The lazy part -- I use Vendio to upload my scans to eBay. I'm not very creative when it comes
to naming my files and thought "06" was an appropriate name for a scan of a 1906 Barber dime.
I Vendioed an "06" file (on 2-12) that appeared in one of my auctions that ran from 2-14 to 2-21.
The winner Paypal'd me almost immediately and I rushed his $0.30 coin to the post office.
On 3-4 I was uploading another batch o' Barbers. This 1906 dime is an original AU, unlike the dog
from the previous month. As I was uploading, Vendio informed me I already had a file titled "06".
Did I want to rename the new file or replace the original. I clicked to replace the original.
I posted the "new" 1906 on 3-5 and less than 6 hours later get an email from the gentleman
who had bought the dog, as it were. His complaint was simple: "The coin you sent me does not match the one in the photo".
When I checked the archives he was right. The scan showing his mutt had been replaced with the
scan of the AU. <sound of Jeapordy music as I figure out what happened>
I wrote to Vendio telling them what happened. Their response mainly emphasized the use of
singular file names. Fair enough I thought. But there should have been a warning that my act
of replacing one scan with another would also affect the archives. That suggestion was met with
a I'll-pass-your-suggestion-on reply that conjured up an image of old AEN shrugging with palms upright.
Was the problem mine or does vendio share some responsibility?
Steve "looking for a random number generator" Teagan
I buy and sell mostly Barber dimes on eBay. I'm working on a "perfect" G-VG+ set and a
set of XF+ toners. I sell my dupes to finance upgrading.
The lazy part -- I use Vendio to upload my scans to eBay. I'm not very creative when it comes
to naming my files and thought "06" was an appropriate name for a scan of a 1906 Barber dime.
I Vendioed an "06" file (on 2-12) that appeared in one of my auctions that ran from 2-14 to 2-21.
The winner Paypal'd me almost immediately and I rushed his $0.30 coin to the post office.
On 3-4 I was uploading another batch o' Barbers. This 1906 dime is an original AU, unlike the dog
from the previous month. As I was uploading, Vendio informed me I already had a file titled "06".
Did I want to rename the new file or replace the original. I clicked to replace the original.
I posted the "new" 1906 on 3-5 and less than 6 hours later get an email from the gentleman
who had bought the dog, as it were. His complaint was simple: "The coin you sent me does not match the one in the photo".
When I checked the archives he was right. The scan showing his mutt had been replaced with the
scan of the AU. <sound of Jeapordy music as I figure out what happened>
I wrote to Vendio telling them what happened. Their response mainly emphasized the use of
singular file names. Fair enough I thought. But there should have been a warning that my act
of replacing one scan with another would also affect the archives. That suggestion was met with
a I'll-pass-your-suggestion-on reply that conjured up an image of old AEN shrugging with palms upright.
Was the problem mine or does vendio share some responsibility?
Steve "looking for a random number generator" Teagan
Collecting XF+ toned Barber dimes
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New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.