Sometimes, fantastic coin photography is a bad thing ...

... when a buyer says a coin does not look at all like the photos. Bad eyes, not understanding a brockage, or buyers remorse is my question.
Yes I know a coin can be photographed a thousand different ways.


Yes I know a coin can be photographed a thousand different ways.


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He kind of looks like a ghost - or maybe frozen in fear by what was happening to him.
The fact is that I used to sell off my upgrades with near effortless ease until my photography skills got better and I began providing quality, hi res images of coins. Now I sell off one to two coins per month.
Fact is the crappier the image the more sales I had, the better the image the less sales I have. And I have only had 4 returns in more than 13 years ...
Net-net, I'm going back to providing crappy images as I'm looking to sell off my duplicates and not own them forever.
Long live crappy images
I had a beautiful hi res image of $10 Indian in CAC plastic. Na da. No nibbles.
I then pulled the hi res image and replaced it with a front full slab and reverse full slab fuzzy image. Coin sold on first listing and buyer was ultra happy!!
Great images = bad sales.
Now that is funny... no reason to doubt you....but this is the first I have seen this idea
put forth.... and, you have history to support it... Cheers, RickO
Lance.
I am reimaging all of my for sale coins (upgrades) into bad pictures.
The fact is that I used to sell off my upgrades with near effortless ease until my photography skills got better and I began providing quality, hi res images of coins. Now I sell off one to two coins per month.
Fact is the crappier the image the more sales I had, the better the image the less sales I have. And I have only had 4 returns in more than 13 years ...
Net-net, I'm going back to providing crappy images as I'm looking to sell off my duplicates and not own them forever.
Long live crappy images
I had a beautiful hi res image of $10 Indian in CAC plastic. Na da. No nibbles.
I then pulled the hi res image and replaced it with a front full slab and reverse full slab fuzzy image. Coin sold on first listing and buyer was ultra happy!!
Great images = bad sales.
I wonder if the person who bought it didn't "have to" look at it. After all, both PCGS and CAC liked it, so why even look close at it?
If it looks good in a pic the buyer is unhappy because it's not better than he imagined.
But, if it looks bad in a pic then the buyer is stoked as it looks better than he imagined?
bob
I have not found that to be the case at all.
I will say, however, that if you have a really good coin a great image will help capture it in its full glory. If you have a bad coin, a great image will highlight every flaw and negative attribute.
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