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TwoSides2aCoin
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"you shouldn't be buying coins that you know nothing about. Stick with comic books."
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show me a picture of what you feel it should look like?
"I'm sorry you're not happy with the coin. Please return it and I will refund your payment."
Ask him to look at photos of real ones on legitimate auction sites and compare, then get back with you.
The FRAVDVLENT coin in question.
$28 & $1.11 s/h.
"Thank you for your business. This is how they were made. Please click the link to a web site,that shows other dollars,made the same way."
Looks to me like there was no room for a U!
Tell him that the ones with a U were only in special sets sold by the mint and they carry a huge premium. If you ever find one you'll email him directly to set up the transaction.
You have a very rare coin. Please send it back to me for a refund.
I would just give him a link to wiki or such (something that everyone knows) and call it a day.
bob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dollar
Vsvally, I jvst direct them to CoinFacts so they can see it's part of the regvlar design.
NO and NO! Why would you want to unnecessarily deal with a return given the current postal mess?
Such a strong strike throughout that the U was made into a V!
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Tell him/her to look at the pics on eBay and if it was fake then all of those listings would NOT BE ALLOWED on eBay.
Jvst issve a refvnd if bvyer retvrns it
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I would just explain that they used a V instead of a U and provide the resources he/she can use to see for themselves. After that tell them if they don't like the coin for some other reason to return it.
My spidey senses are telling me they are trying to get a free refund or even a refund plus keeping the coin. They might be counting on a seller not wanting to deal with it since it is a low value item.
Collector, occasional seller
I'd like to see him SNAD his way out of this one.
It could happen. I had a buyer do a SNAD claim for something just as silly and tell me (through the eBay message system, no less) that he made the claim because he didn't want to pay to return the coin. When I contacted eBay, they agreed the buyer was abusing the SNAD policy but I still had to pay the cost to return the coin to me.
bet ebay would find in buyers favor even though the buyer is wrong.
My first reply was " Seriously? Do you have a red book or the CoinFacts app ? "
Second reply was " please return for full refund, if not happy".
This actually happened to me once.
My response was almost identical to yours except I added: "The ancie Romans used "v" instead of "u" and the Mint used that script. All Peace dollars spell "trust" as "trvst"."
The buyer apologized and thanked me and I didn't even feel the need to block him. LOL.
I had someone SNAD me a decade ago on a 1975 proof set because they said: "This set is not original. It was clearly put together. It has 1976 coins in it."
Depending on how the buyer had responded to me, I might have done the same. In this case, the buyer is claiming "fraud", so my personal preference would be to not dispute the charge and just put the transaction behind me as quickly as possible.
Of course you could always offer and just say, "would love to have it back, silver is shooting straight up right now".
bob
Let’s assume for a second that the buyer really has no knowledge of numismatics. Why wouldn’t he do a quick google search and view images of what these look like before sending the seller a message like that? Or better yet, do the search before making the purchase.
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Well, the f-bomb gets thrown around pretty loosely around here also. It's as though people never make mistakes.
True dat.
I bet it was a non-collecting parent/relative looking for a birth year set.
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
Clearly you have not worked with the general public that much!
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
Seems like a good candidate for a Why Coin Dealers Drink thread!
Thankfully , upon further research, I received a gracious apology from newer collector, realizing he got a fairly decent deal. Happy new year.
Well that's good!
Collector, occasional seller
Yes that was mentioned to him but I said it was Latin, and all Greek to me. Left the Romans out of that one.
Accept the return --> Refund --> Block
My comment was TIC. I know that eBay buyers can use the SNAD excuse [justified or otherwise] in order to force a return.
While that particular complaint is one I haven't received, a dealer friend of mine got the same complaint a few years ago.
"Things that make you go...'hmmmm'..."
Did the buyer do the additional research without prompting from you?
Tell them to list it as an error on ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/error-1926-1-PEACE-SILVER-DOLLAR-Must-have-for-any-coin-collector-TRVST/393074225382?hash=item5b850cb0e6:g:Y20AAOSwbHpf6sOi
Wasn't it @ScarsdaleCoin who ones got a negative because a three cent silver was so small?
I got a neg once because the coin I sold didn't have as much silver in it (a world coin) as the buyer thought it would for its size.
edited to add... I didn't make any claims about the amount of silver in the coin.
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The funny ones I get are from selling seashells. Some of the shells I sell are tiny. You would be surprised how many people don't realize how small 10mm is. I've had several complain the shell is tiny and why I use such big pictures. After explaining that 1 inch is 25.4 mm I go on to explain all shell sellers use metric measurements and ebay requires a large picture or they will not allow the listing. Surprisingly(knock on wood) no one has returned one yet!
NOT nitpicking; trying to be constructive ...
1.0 inch = 25.4mm
Certain information 'sticks' after it has been beaten into you enough.
Should have told him about the ones with a Y on them.
Corrected....yeah they call that a BrainFart!