A switcheroo

wybrit · May 19, 2004 11:33AM

** New update ** Switch is confirmed. Looks like it might have been an error by the seller. Still waiting for a reply.

spinaker2000 · May 19, 2004 1:15PM

Just hope he's not one of those low lifes that use stock photos.

theboz11 · May 19, 2004 11:28PM

Had that happen to me a few months back, He had two coins that he sold and sent the wrong one to both of us, we sent them back and he resent them back to the proper party, all worked out fine. Mistakes can happen on duplicate sales.

python · May 20, 2004 12:04AM

Wybrit, I hope it turns out well.

MacCrimmon · May 20, 2004 12:09AM

Could be a legit goof. I just came within a millisecond (for you engineers) of sending the wrong roll of quarters last week. I knew that I had inadvertantly swapped the rolls with the original polybags when imaging, but never corrected the switch. The box had already been sealed with that blasted fibre tape when I had the epiphany....

coinkat · May 20, 2004 9:56AM

hopefully this will work out

mongoose · May 20, 2004 10:32AM

This situation has some similarities with one that I encountered in 2002. I was always looking for inexpensive modern British copper, and found a raw one on ebay that I suspected would be Gem or very close.
It was a common date Ship 1/2d, a very nice one judging by the picture, and hence my willingness to pay twice book for a common coin. I look at many of these coins, but only buy the nicest ones.

I bid almost twice book value on this inexpensive copper because it had the "look". The coin I received was not the same coin that was pictured. Not even close to the same quality. I downloaded the auction pic, and saved it for future reference. Nowhere in the auction description did it state that the coin received would be different from the auction pictured coin. The coin I received was UNC, but nowhere near as nice as the one pictured on ebay.

To make the burn even worse, I then discovered that the seller was using that same picture on their website to sell multiple coins of the same date/denomination. I saved that website picture, again for future reference. I still have the coin marked in a flip, and the 2 pictures that had been used to sell who knows how many of that coin.

My biggest gripe was the fact that the seller never indicated that he was selling from a stock picture. I would have never bid on that coin had I known it wouldn't be the one that I would win.

My other gripe was that the seller charged me a percentage over hammer price to settle up with PayPal, and that was never mentioned in the auction... though PayPal was listed as a valid payment option.

A coin that I could have bought locally for $1 ended up costing me over $5 with shipping and Paypal juice.
Not much money, but much heartburn with the whole situation. I haven't bought a coin from that seller's ebay auctions or website since.

wybrit · May 20, 2004 12:28PM

The buyer contacted me today and wants to make right the problem. It is as I suspected (after doing some research on his previous auctions) - it was an honest mix up. End of story.

A switcheroo

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