Post some of you poor photo scores from Ebay....

relicsncoins

If you have the sellers photo that would be interesting as well.

Here is one. I paid somewhere around 15 or 18 dollars for this a few years back. The seller had this photo only and no photo of the reverse. NT/AT? Probably wouldn't slab, but very lusterous and mark free.

Seller's photo.



My photo.

metalmeister

Full Diamonds and NT
Nice pick up

drwstr123

I took a chance at $160.00....seller's pic:

Re-holder and my pic:

JamesMurray

I dont have a photo just yet , but probably the best deal i ever got was on a seated dime , out of focus fuzzy picture should have raised red flags but i kept getting drawn back to it.
In the end i wondered why if it were a poor condition coin would the seller have it in an air tite..that was part of my thinking , it bothered me there was no picture of the reverse as well.
I took the gamble and won the coin for well under $10 , it turned out to be AU in the 50's , a pretty high grade and was also a CC mint coin.Ive had other good snags but that was my best i think.

Rob41281

Sellers


My Pics

relicsncoins

My experience is, if the coin is in an NGC or PCGS holder with a poor photo, you may get an ok deal, but people tend to trust plastic. When raw however, the rewards are typically much greater, but of course the risk is also.

illini420

I bought this one when I was working on my type set and placing a lot of trust into numbers on plastic. This was the seller's only pic so I threw in a low ball best offer and it was accepted:



Here's my pics:




Ended up selling it for close to $1000 profit and it's now listed on eBay by a dealer for over twice what I paid last year, but with a similarly poor photo.

seanq

Seller's pic:



$9.99 Buy It Now later, my pic:




Sean Reynolds

MikeInFL

I don't have the seller's original photos, but suffice to say they were about 20 pixels in size:



This coin, my avatar, was graded MS 65 by PCGS and bought for roughly AU money.

relicsncoins

<< <i>I don't have the seller's original photos, but suffice to say they were about 20 pixels in size:



This coin, my avatar, was graded MS 65 by PCGS and bought for roughly AU money. >>



That looks nice Mike. I'm a bit surprised it didn't get a PL designation.

thisnamztaken

<< <i>I bought this one when I was working on my type set and placing a lot of trust into numbers on plastic. This was the seller's only pic so I threw in a low ball best offer and it was accepted:



Here's my pics:




Ended up selling it for close to $1000 profit and it's now listed on eBay by a dealer for over twice what I paid last year, but with a similarly poor photo. >>



WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!

WaterSport

Paid $9 for this one and it was just good enough to see what I needed to see. PCGS MS 64 RED 1936 DDO Type 2

WS

jonathanb

I mostly haven't saved the original pics from sellers, but this is one that I still have (still have the picture, the coin was sold last year):

MikeInFL

<< <i>That looks nice Mike. I'm a bit surprised it didn't get a PL designation. >>



Thanks for the kind words.

FWIW, PCGS doesn't label gold dollars with the PL designation, but if they did, I agree this one deserves it (probably more than the 65 grade, to be completely candid in my opinion).

Take care...Mike

PQType

FR02 pop 1/48 lowest

BECOKA

Guess I don't have any real e-bay deals. I do have some interesting before and after pics from Teletrade and Heritage.

relicsncoins

Here is another score of mine. It was listed as an UNC with very poor photos. I took a chance and bid 20 bucks on it. This is what I recieved.




20 bucks ain't bad for a proof indian.

seanq

I have to add my all-time best eBay rip. Seller's photo:



My photo:




Sean Reynolds

etexmike

I picked this coin off of the bay. Not a horrible pic by the seller


but this is what the coin looks like in hand.



Mike