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Why eBay Coin Dealers Drink: Thank you for your helpful email

airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 3, 2019 12:11AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Email sent by someone not participating, while the listing is live:

JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research

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  • CollectorBonEZCollectorBonEZ Posts: 374 ✭✭✭✭

    I get messages like that all day long. It gets irritating and makes it hard to sell coins at decent prices.

  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow!! That really deserves a response from Napoleon...

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lmfao.

    Yup!

  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did you end the auction early, taking his generous offer?

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you're surprised by such e-mails you must be new to eBay. ;)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :D Those offers are from individuals that 'think' they are negotiators.... and they are clueless....Cheers, RickO

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gotta admit - the obverse is decent. :D

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    If you're surprised by such e-mails you must be new to eBay. ;)

    I never said surprised... very little surprises me on eBay anymore...

    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "My son needs that coin for his set but I have seven kids and can't afford you B.I.N. " is one I got.

    I can imagine what you eBay everyday warriors must see.

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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:
    I just had one today. Offered me $30 for a little gold foreign coin that I had listed at $65. I countered at $55 and told him the melt value of the gold was $55. He countered me at $42.

    Blocked.

    Life is too short to negotiate with those types.

    Keep in mind--this is a live auction, not just a lowball offer.

    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @airplanenut said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    I just had one today. Offered me $30 for a little gold foreign coin that I had listed at $65. I countered at $55 and told him the melt value of the gold was $55. He countered me at $42.

    Blocked.

    Life is too short to negotiate with those types.

    Keep in mind--this is a live auction, not just a lowball offer.

    No, I totally understand that. I've had that, too, on occasion. I have to bite my tongue to explain to them that auctions go the other direction.

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @airplanenut said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    I just had one today. Offered me $30 for a little gold foreign coin that I had listed at $65. I countered at $55 and told him the melt value of the gold was $55. He countered me at $42.

    Blocked.

    Life is too short to negotiate with those types.

    Keep in mind--this is a live auction, not just a lowball offer.

    Ah yes, 24 bids. Did you bother to respond?

    Collector, occasional seller

  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisH821 said:

    @airplanenut said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    I just had one today. Offered me $30 for a little gold foreign coin that I had listed at $65. I countered at $55 and told him the melt value of the gold was $55. He countered me at $42.

    Blocked.

    Life is too short to negotiate with those types.

    Keep in mind--this is a live auction, not just a lowball offer.

    Ah yes, 24 bids. Did you bother to respond?

    My only response thus far is that I blocked him. As much as I'd like to respond with something witty and/or snarky, the only thing I can think it will do is embolden him to find a way to mess with me for real, and I don't need to encourage the crazies to come out and bother me. Enough take it upon themselves without my prompting :D

    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:

    @DCW said:
    Did you end the auction early, taking his generous offer?

    Jeremy is way too smart for that. I’m sure he waited to see if someone else would offer $750.😉

    O Mark,,,you just crack me up !! B) I wake up when you come on line !

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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,644 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is like the guy who comes up to a table at a coin show and proceeds to pick apart a dealer's inventory while making lowball offers.

    Fortunately, it's a lot harder to take up a dealer's time while doing this online. I think this is a no-response delete, and shouldn't take more than a couple seconds to process.

  • specksynderspecksynder Posts: 26 ✭✭✭

    Had a guy like that last month - making offers lower than the current bid. When I pointed out the bids, he claimed the bids were only that high because I was shilling them up. Ooookay, now he's blocked.

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