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What are the Odds I'll Never see this Coin?

braddickbraddick Posts: 24,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
I bid and won THIS COIN on eBay a couple of days ago.
I paid, via Paypal right when the auction ended.

The seller is now NARU'ed.

Give me the odds I'll ever see this coin.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,617 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What is "NARU'd?"
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275
    That really stinks-I feel your pain on such a coin.

    What a cry-baby (the seller). He should have put a reserve on the coin if he didn't want to lose money on it-assuming that this is what happened???
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not A Registered User!! = NARU
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  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll be the optimist here and say 50-50.

    I don't see the tell-tale signs of negatives building up prior to NARU - maybe he just forgot to pay his monthly paypal fees or he didn't want to provide a copy of his drivers license or whatever.

    I'd give him a call and ask what's up if you have his number though.
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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭
    90% chance you'll see the coin. Why shouldn't he complete the transaction? He's been registered on ebay for 8 years, over 160 positive feedbacks in the last six months and no negs. He's gonna screw around on a $180 deal? Where else would he go? Doubt he wants to re-register and have a -0- feedback again.

    Joe
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That really sucks-I feel your pain on such a coin.

    What a cry-baby. He should have put a reserve on the coin if he didn't want to lose money on it. >>



    Why is he a cry-baby? I don't understand.

    I think that you'll see the coin - hopefully it's just a temporary suspension.
  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭
    99.6% chance you will receive the coin IMO.

    Joe.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That really sucks-I feel your pain on such a coin.

    What a cry-baby. He should have put a reserve on the coin if he didn't want to lose money on it. >>

    It's not that the seller will refuse to honor the deal -- it's that the seller got NARU'd.

    If it's just an administrative thing -- failure to pay fees in a timely manner or something -- they could be back as soon as the matter is settled. Given this seller's history, I think the OP will still see the coin. It doesn't look like the seller was NARU'd for being a bad seller or for perpetrating scams -- the OP wouldn't deal with that kind of seller anyway, most likely.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Very Good Chance you'll see it. Being NARU'ed has little to do with PayPal and if the coin does not show, get your money back. However, given the recent rash of EBAY inquiries, a lot of seller's and buyers are getting temporary suspensions for one reason or another.

    I recently had a seller send the wrong item and then he got NARU'ed shortly after I returned the item for a refund. Well, he's back, I got my refund and all is well.

    Good luck on whatever happens though!
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  • I give you a %75 chance of getting the coin. Hopefully he simply changed credit cards and forgot to update his eBay account info or something along those lines...
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    Maybe he didn't want to give ebay all his personal info.image
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think you'll get it.
  • BoomBoom Posts: 10,165
  • Same thing happened to me last week. I got my item, so I ain't scared for you.
    (Old man) Look I had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, “That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah”.

    (Priest) BLASPHEMY he said it again, did you hear him?
  • I agree with everyone else, I think you will see it. I have purchased items of ebay, paid and then the seller was NARU'ed. Everytime I rec'd the item.

    Given the seller's feedback score, I think there is an almost certain chance you will get the coin.
  • There are many reasons someone can be NARUd. Judging from his feedback, I am pretty positive you'll get your coin. Just because he got NARUd doesn't mean he's dishonest. You made the transaction and I believe he'll honor your transaction.

    Good luck to you.

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
  • johnsim03johnsim03 Posts: 992 ✭✭
    I agree, chances are very good that you will receive with no problems.
    On the other hand, the downside for you is next to nothing, if you funded
    your PayPal payment via a credit card. If the PayPal recovery procedure doesn't work
    for you, the chargeback with your credit card company most certainly will!

    John
    John C. Knudsen, LM ANA 2342, LM CSNS 337
    SFC, US Army (Ret.) 1974-1994
  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pat, I'd bet money you'll get it without any problems...probably a guy who "forgot" to pay his bill.

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    I wouldn't worry, I just finished up a transaction on a $900 coin with him. Bought it 8/2 and received it on 8/7/06. I highly doubt he is scamming you.

    Sad thing is I can't leave him positive feedback.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • As long as you own and paid for the auction before he went NARU then you should be okay... maybe you should try giving him a phone call.
  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like you'll get it. Looks like a lot of coin for the money, too -- and depending on how bad the damage is in hand, the "cleaned" part might not be the big deal it sounds like, since lots of those in PCGS, NGC, and non-net-graded ANACS holders have been cleaned too. A couple months in a Taco Bell napkin should revive it nicely image

    MD
    mirabela
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm sure you guys are probably right.
    It is one layer of protection though we loose as buyers when eBay does this to a seller.

    As far as the coin? It's going to be popped out of its plastic and placed neatly into a Whitman Type Set and should live happily everafter (that is... if it arrives).

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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think that you will get it within the next few days--being Narued is not always the fault of the seller--Ebay is very wierd and getting wierder all the time. Maybe he just forgot to pay his bill on time. JMHO-Please Let us know the outcome--Bobimage
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