I thought WHAT a deal!

ttown · March 31, 2009 10:47AM

Was so exicted to see one of these that wasn't moon money. I could see someone coming in on this last minute and making a mistake. Was this a mistake or an attempt to sell an item for way more money than it's was worth. I'll let you figure out some of it from the auction and the coin (s) involved.

Ebay auction

Placid · March 31, 2009 10:51AM

I dont see whats wrong

SilverEagles92 · March 31, 2009 10:54AM

1822 CBH, PCGS VF35.

What are you driving at? Nothing strikes me as 'off' in the listing.

ttown · March 31, 2009 10:57AM

Look again and think "key" date.

fc · March 31, 2009 10:58AM

<< Look again and think "key" date. >>

i must be very slow today. i do not get it either.

pheh · March 31, 2009 11:04AM

Seller error I'm sure. It is listed in Quarters and I assume you thought 25/50.

ttown · March 31, 2009 11:04AM

Well for me and I think many others. It's way when you write a professional document I sure poof read my work many time but in the end I have other trusted person read it and give me thier thoughts. Your seeing the coin don't look at it.

fc · March 31, 2009 11:06AM

<< Seller error I'm sure. It is listed in Quarters and I assume you thought 25/50. >>

hm. i guess i am used to that. i look at the half eagle section a lot
and am used to seeing dollars, eagles, and double eagles in the
area. I think people choose two categories to stick it in or just simply
made a mistake.

pheh · March 31, 2009 11:06AM

<< Well for me and I think many others. It's way when you write a professional document I sure poof read my work many time but in the end I have other trusted person read it and give me thier thoughts. Your seeing the coin don't look at it. >>

why not way.

OKbustchaser · March 31, 2009 11:09AM

It is the "so-called" 1822/1...not really an overdate, but for years it was collected as one.

ttown · March 31, 2009 11:13AM

Well I must say that since the seller is new and he did list an 1830 in the quarter too is more than likely a mistake. The problem with the Internet and not having the coin in hand to see it's size can be a problem. Your in the bust quarters section scanning dates you need or need to upgrade having most of them. You see the 1822 and go to look at the coin skipping the detail at first to give the coin a scan. That's my normal method anymore after being on Ebay since 1997 and I still catch myself every once in awhile. The bust quater rarely have an 1822 or many coins in the whole section. So you think you know where you are and what your looking at in a PCGS holder. Had this auction been closing in say 2 minutes I might have kicked off a bid without much reading.

pheh · March 31, 2009 11:15AM

You wouldn't have read the 50C on the slab?

Placid · March 31, 2009 11:17AM

Point taken. I have done the same for coins with bins listed in the wrong catagory.
Its just not the same when you take a link right to the auction vs. finding it from a search result list.

ttown · March 31, 2009 11:19AM

I'm on dialup you can't screw around if you want something bad enough. The coins look the same and I'm a date collector not an Overton chaser. Actually I bookmarked this at work not having time to read about it and it had 17 hours to close. Tonight I came in and took a closer look and it's price. What a disappointment and I just got to thinking boy I need to watch out had I come in on this with a minute or two left I may have pulled the trigger.

Robb · March 31, 2009 11:20AM

<< 

<< Well for me and I think many others. It's way when you write a professional document I sure poof read my work many time but in the end I have other trusted person read it and give me thier thoughts. Your seeing the coin don't look at it. >>

why not way. >>

You're not your.

RaginsteveK · April 6, 2009 4:19AM

I'm the guy who was selling the CBHs (listed under quarters- never noticed it, until an acquaintance said: man, there's a ruckus goin on !).

The winning bidder for the 1822 VF35 IS GETTING HIS MONEY BACK (he thought he was buying a quarter)

I offered the same to the high bidder on the 1830EF45, as well.

The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to keep them, or at least one .
(I'm having a lot of trouble: trading vs collecting)

AskRaq · April 6, 2009 4:24AM

<< I'm the guy who was selling the CBHs (listed under quarters- never noticed it, until an acquaintance said: man, there's a ruckus goin on !).

The winning bidder for the 1822 VF35 IS GETTING HIS MONEY BACK (he thought he was buying a quarter)

I offered the same to the high bidder on the 1830EF45, as well.

The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to keep them, or at least one .
(I'm having a lot of trouble: trading vs collecting) >>

WELCOME to the RUCKUS BOARD!!

rgCoinGuy · April 6, 2009 4:31AM

That was a nice thing to do.

Flatwoods · April 6, 2009 4:45AM

Thanks for the ruckus.
It was kind of slow around here.

Oh yeah.

MisterBungle · April 6, 2009 5:04AM

Hi, RaginsteveK, and welcome!!

Glad the "ruckus" got you on board, hope you
stick around. This was a fairly minor ruckus
for this place, maybe we can come up with
something better.

~

GFourDriver · April 6, 2009 5:09AM

I made almost the same exact mistake not too long ago. I did a search on ebay for classic head large cents and found a really nice PCGS AU for an incredible price so I had to hop on it as fast as I could. So, I did a BIN and went back to admire my amazing coin only to see that it was a half cent. I felt like an idiot when I emailed the seller to tell him of my mistake who I later found out is an esteemed member of this forum. He was like.... didn't you see the half cent on the coin? It was not an easy thing to say that I hadn't but I learned something from it and any time you can do that, it's a good thing. The seller even left me a pos feedback which really surprised me but I thought it was a very classy thing to do. I still to this day doubt that he knows that I'm a member of this forum too, I was way too embarrassed to tell him I was. For all I know he may have made a mistake listing in under large cents as well.

doh · April 6, 2009 5:15AM

I don't see the issue...yeah the seller listed it in quarters, but if a buyer can't tell that's a half by the size of the coin and item title, oh and THE HOLDER, then he or she shouldn't be buying coins online. Some people are just really dumb I guess.

I thought WHAT a deal!

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