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

ctf_error_coins

... 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.

TopographicOceans

Why it's upside down ! That' can't be the same coin

He kind of looks like a ghost - or maybe frozen in fear by what was happening to him.

morgandollar1878

That is a great pic. I love how you were able to capture the texture.

mercurydimeguy

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.

ricko

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

lkeigwin

Great images only work with great coins. Otherwise I agree with the sentiment above.

Lance.

CaptHenway

Great coin. You can't fix stupid.

Barndog

if you want to sell on ebay, you have to have more stylish images

ctf_error_coins

I just looked at the note the came back with the coin .... this is how they spelled Lincoln Pennies ....... Loncoln Pennzy

DaveWcoins

Originally posted by: mercurydimeguy

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?

AUandAG

so, here's where this thread is going:



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

CoinRaritiesOnline

Great images = bad sales.

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.

Sonorandesertrat

I think that I will start a secondary collection of the famous 'Loncoln Pennzy' coins. They may only be viewed after one has had a bottle of wine---that way, the spelling might look right.