AD's LIKE THIS ARE SHAMEFUL and Hurt the Hobby
Garfield2022
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I wish eBay had some way to flag and eliminate ad's that are way outside coin price ranges. Possibly a program with some fixed percent above their average eBay sold prices that could prevent the listing or have an automatic disclaimer or warning applied to the listing in nice bold red print.
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Idiot or grossly misinformed seller looking for the same kind of buyers.
This happens here on the BST forum on occassion.
Interesting trivia:
That seller has as many feedbacks (26) as the OP has posts (26).
OCD much
All of the seller's feedback are as a buyer also.
Guess you’ve never seen the seller “dreamtrophy”s listings.
People can list items for as much or as little as they like, there is no board or panel one must get their pricing approved through. Lots of good honest dealers have items on their site that I think are stupidly high, I doubt they got approval through random people to do it.
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Yeah, his prices are absolutely insane. I don’t think he’s honestly looking to sell his coins. I think he’s just showing them off. JMO
Or you could ignore the listing and move on to the next one.
Just a thought...
Except it's shameful and hurtful and requires more top-down control to prevent it.
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I guess entering a price range for the things you want to see is out of the question, then?
I sent a note with how to research sold sales on ebay. Gave him a value of $5 on dimes and $15 on Ike (estimate).
bob
All I see are fishing lures?
Has he blocked you yet?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
"171 Antique Fishing Lure’s Lot" ???
It’s difficult to dummy-proof eBay. The good thing is, no one with a pulse will bid on these auctions.
Dave
people can ask whatever price they want for things, but the question is will that item or items sell at that price?
Why waste time with links when there are no really serious buyers for my coins?
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Why waste time selling in the BST when there are no really serious buyers for my coins?
They also make exactly the same error with apostrophe's. D'oh!
Here’s an xf 42 walker with obv pic only for only $2,327. Free shipping!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185566287033?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0Yudt7UBTqm&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=KDJF94HVQYO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
His coins are down, appears he took them off. Just the old fishing lures are still up.
bob
You mean like this? One of many.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385099755806?hash=item59a9bbf11e:g:xZEAAOSwl~VjFV1l&amdata=enc:AQAHAAAAkO1Ba+CbweqQ6AD4JxNVSkLA5gV2+NOpCDpXC26crey9zU1fbbl3T4KpOSRN7iIkIfJO9Xf3tE17PcdRkUJUFWXzQj5eVyddM5siAp5YZEhw72Sam5OOGjj8W5epRD8fK/RdoxRa2+Bg6Sa3HJX7wfxVhMjcjcpoRQ47efrHCFgSXemaNKiLsti7TXTYbFEO9w==|tkp:Bk9SR4iJzL7hYA
Dang! You better move fast on that bargain. HaHaHa
That would never happen around here…
Smitten with DBLCs.
I research sold sales quite often but thanks anyway. I also review feedbacks before I buy or bid on something and sometimes do still take a chance on a few folks that have a negative or two. Even if they have thousands of sales and lots of recent negatives I avoid them just because I don't want to be on that negative end. I'd rather take a chance on a seller with 50 positives and no neutral or negatives especially if they have been on eBay a few years.
Heck that could be an error as well since the mint forgot to put the luster on it! HaHa
I agree but there is one thing to overprice an item and another thing to take a moonshot looking for a sucker. I'm also pretty sure some people with some nice coins might way overprice and have a or make best offer do it to to come up first in the listings if a buyer hits the search for Highest Priced out of curiosity.
I'm just adding to my post count because I'm up earlier than usual. My one ounce coins are selling for under $25. On eBay ( in auctions). I should have Stacks & Bowers sell my stuff..... or this guy.
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
I reported it to eBay with the comment “If someone buys these coins there will be a refund request. The word “certified” is misleading; the cellophane packaging can confuse an inexperienced buyer. If eBay cannot force him, please ask him to remove his offers. Your policies allow honest sellers to trade, not to practice deceptions on buyers.“
I had to laugh at that "penny" descrip... "NICE AND RARE" ....that definitely needs grading!!
If you need someone to say “rare” you’re in the wrong marketplace.
As I have posted before, there are dealers who post and have asking prices that are two, three or more times higher than the catalogs or auction results. These quotes have nothing to do with market realities; it’s just greed. Yet, somehow, these guys stay in business. I don’t know how they do it. They seem to know how to tap into collector ignorance with a great image or a “gift of gab.”
My reaction is that collectors and casual buyers need to educate themselves. We can’t micro manage this. Some dealers stay in business by selling over graded and processed coins. One such dealer is often mentioned here. Yesterday I was surfing the Web looking for a semi-key date coin. I spotted one from this dealer. Surprisingly the coin was certified, which is unlike this dealer’s usual offerings. Oddly enough, when I looked at photos of the coin, my conclusion was that it had been recolored. Somehow this dealer had gotten his usual products into a slab.
The only way we can really stop them is if they start selling counterfeit and altered (e.g. glued on mint marks) coins. Otherwise it has to be market forces that puts an end to their nefarious ways.
@Garfield2022 Are you new to eBay? Sellers with grossly overpriced and overhyped coins are nothing new. Just remember "Caveat Emptor".
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
People can ask any price... Selling it at that price is the problem. Many overpriced items on ebay. Cheers, RickO
Let's not forget those extremely rare no mint mark cents.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=no+mint+mark&_sacat=31373&_sop=16
Steve
It’s ingenious that folk can inform themselves about half of a complementary set, then, cease to learn and proceed with confidence—knowing heat and unaware that it has an antithesis.
Are you kidding? I've been on there since 1999. I just have watched posts get crazier and crazier since then. I think some folks have no conscience and ripping people off is their work ethic. So sad! :-(
"Overnight courier"?
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Doesn't matter how hard you try you're probably not going to catch up with ricko! I wonder how many keyboards he's gone through to get 92,000+ posts. HaHaHa
Non-rural Ford Courier overnight?