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Buyer complained that Silver trime is too small.

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  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Trime Auction

    I sold that junk trime for $5. Got this email last night:

    Dear photocoin,

    I bought this coin and I must say I am very dissapointed in its size. Your pics made it appear much larger than it actually is. Do you accept returns?


    -shoot231


    I just gave him the $5 back and told him to keep the coin. But, what a moron! >>



    Now you have 13 people mad as hell that you just gave this valuable coin away!!!! They're dying for another chance at this numismatic gem, but you dismissed their generous bids and just gave it away!

    Edit: Correction. There were only 2 people bidding, placing 14 bids. Looks like only one person will be ticked that you gave the coin away. The bidding sequence is also funny.

    This has to be one of the better Ebay threads this year, along with the "shot in head" Kennedy half for $7000.
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  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085
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  • frnklnlvrfrnklnlvr Posts: 2,750
    If the picture represented the actual size of this coin you couldn't even see it. Even a picture of a silver dollar at actual size would be too small.
  • JedPlanchetJedPlanchet Posts: 908 ✭✭✭
    Trimes are shockingly small - weren't they called "fish scales" when they circulated?

    Still, the buyer had some nerve asking for a refund, but it seemed like the right thing for the OP to give them back their money ...

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,838 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Trimes are shockingly small - weren't they called "fish scales" when they circulated?. >>



    Yup and that's why coin collectors have magnifiers and loupes. I hope some day this guy buys a $1/4 California fractional gold piece on eBay. He would faint when he sees it in hand.image


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  • atarianatarian Posts: 3,116
    I think this coin is a 1867.
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  • ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would send him $6 and tell him thank you, since you hated to sell it so cheap since Scarsdale Coin pays $10-$20 for these coins....LOL
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Thank god that bidder did not bid on a panama pill.

    Isn't that the smallest coin?


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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Send him some Miracle-Gro image
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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    Tell him to take his refunded $5 and buy (and read) an old Red Book!

  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<You might want to relate your story in all your future eBay offerings. As a bit of humor you could paste in a pic of a Green Pea with this disclaimer>>

    Brilliant idea, had me laughing, the whole pea thing image Quite possibly the dumbest feedback ever in the history of Feebay.

    How about an IQ requirement, if your IQ is below 80 please refrain from bidding.

    I just want to beat my head against the flat screen.
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  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm certain that I could have convinced this guy to keep the coin with a little education and history. It's only $5 and there are plenty of books out there where the guy should have known better. To start questioning about such things in the middle of a transaction is lunacy!


    Leo

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  • slipgateslipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭
    Send him this one...

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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hmm...maybe size does matter? >>



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  • If you'll notice, the 2 bidders had the same max bid. But the guy who didn't snipe it won because earlier bid takes it in a case like this. See, sniping is not always the best way to go.image
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