Seller faux pas which have worked to your advantage...

Broadstruck

I was trying to use a 10% Off eBay Coupon on something $75 or more and glanced at my watch list. There was a token I was interested when first listed and I added it to my list and forgot about it. I noticed it had been re listed a couple times since and the seller started reducing it in cost each time. The original price was fair but I had no issues buying it at 2/3 off. Upon glancing at the title I noticed why it never sold as the seller misspelled the merchants name adding a letter that wasn't called for and leaving another out. Had it been spelled right it would have most likely sold within the first few hours when first listed but I'm not complaining.

lordmarcovan

Sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're the windshield, right?

Seller faux pas? Yep...

I know I just posted the coin below in the recent counterstamp thread, but it ended up being an unintentional cherrypick.

I had bought a coin from the same seller, then decided (through no fault of the seller's or even the coin itself) that it wasn't right for my collection.

Contacted the seller (a firm with multiple employees rather than an individual) and inquired about a return. Got a gracious reply in the affirmative and returned the coin.

A few hours later I spotted the colonial coin below in their eBay store and liked it. I pulled the BIN trigger, then emailed and asked the seller to deduct it from my pending refund on the return I had just shipped, as it was thirty or forty bucks cheaper than the returned coin.

Got no reply to that email.

A week or two passed.

No refund, no French colonial coin, no response to a second email.

Another week or two passed after my second email before I thought to further pursue the matter.

Finally I got somebody who apologized and sent me a refund for the BIN price of the French Colonial, not the coin I had returned.

But they sent me the French colonial, too. So I got the coin AND a refund, and it seemed the seller meant it that way, as an apology.

So I sent positive feedback and forgave the month long delay.

To make a long story short, I ended up owning the coin below for only thirty or forty bucks- the spread between its price and the slightly more expensive return.

(It had been raw, so I paid the PCGS fees after the fact.)

clarkbar04

I just bought this a few days ago, seller had an XF grade on it. (priced a bit high for an XF but not for this so I hit BIN without making an offer.)

I don't even have it yet, sellers photos.

Broadstruck

lordmarcovan, Nice pick up as corroded they range around a $100.

clarkbar04, If all XF's only looked like that as between the cellphone and poor photo that's either a super slider or a CH BU.

coindeuce

Bought a circ. 1889-CC once from a local B&M dealer who had graded the coin VF on the 2X2. Sold it as an XF-45 to a national dealer at Baltimore.

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