Question on ebay listing title/pic
Azurescens
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If someone makes an auction of "1909 P Lincoln Cent" and says "the coin shown here is the one you receive", and it's say, a 1909-S VDB, do you get the coin in the title or the coin in the picture or do you just avoid these altogether?
Is it the seller accidentally making the wrong title, or someone trying to pull one over? Or an opportunity?
I was sifting through coins and saw a nice coin listed so I checked date and MM, it's a $450 coin, mislabeled as a few years earlier no MM and a couple hundred less value. The guy is selling like a hundred things from an estate sale so I can see a mixup happening.
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It could be a mix-up...or a scam. I sometimes mis-type the date myself and don't notice it until asked. I would email the seller and ask for clarification.
I say go for it
Is it a BIN?
Collector, occasional seller
No. It looks like others have overlooked it for over 6 days just based on the title. Stuff like this is why I always check pictures.
If you think it's going to be a RIP. They will probably cancel he sale.
I had a too-good-to-be-true sale cancelled after I did the Buy It Now and paid. In that case the seller listed an item for $2 when they probably meant $200.
There was no real recourse. They never admitted their mistake and just said that the item had been sold outside of eBay (as in a retail setting).
Whether a scam or a mistake, if the auction is not supposed to be for the rarer version as shown in the picture, you have no real way of forcing them to deliver it. If, on the other hand, they are improperly describing the item but the pic shows the actual (more valuable) item, then you can score off their incompetence or lack of knowledge.