Selling a mint sealed box on ebay question.
mackdriver
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If i sold a mint sealed box on ebay and the buyer opens it up to find nothing in it or the wrong item in it,can the seller be held responsible?What if the buyer is a scammer who switches items?How does the seller protect himself?
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What would the mint do if you contacted them and said "I opened my box and it only had 1 coin in it...but the invoice said 3" or something.
You can't prove there was only 1.
<< <i>I've wondered about that too.
What would the mint do if you contacted them and said "I opened my box and it only had 1 coin in it...but the invoice said 3" or something.
You can't prove there was only 1. >>
A friend of mine went to Nebraska Furniture Mart to exchange an item. He pulled up to a dock, they got him his new item and forgot to take the return. A week later he got an invoice in the mail for that item along with a picture of it in his pick-up truck at NFM.
So , he took it right back there. Think CAMERAS.
Mint employees are under close scrutiny. You can probably bet they (MINT) knows what is in the box as they watch the mailman from a satellite as he drops it in your mailbox.
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The other side is almost as scary, selling these sealed boxes to unknown bidders. If the bidder claims they got a box full of slugs, and paid with Paypal, odds are that Paypal will side with the buyer.
Given the prices that the sealed boxes of many mint products sell for, I am surprised it hasn't attracted more attention from would-be scammers.
Hoard the keys.
imagine the trail of accusations if a lead sinker box of 20th anniv SAE's has flipped a few times and discovered at a TPG. it's "too late" to open one fo these IMHO and do anything with them and lose money if you bought one for over 5K.
"No returns on Mint products. The coins are as received from the Mint."
To much danger of the person swapping out coins, etc. It has to be treated as if they got it that way from the Mint. With a sellout, would they send it back to the Mint??
Also, no returns because someone could theoretically buy my 5 coins, pick out the best one and send me back the other 4 for a refund.
As for scammers, we are all on the honor system. Considering the volume of ALL ebay auctions, as a percentage, it would seem to be pretty rare. Knock wood...