So i was looking at a nice toned coin on ebay. I read the description and part of it said this: "This coin is from my colection, and I would have cleaned it had it not been for the toning. " Just...wow? lol
I saw an action yesterday that had a picture of an NGC MS64FB Mercury, the description was something like this: "The coin for auction is an ungraded MS63 Mercury, not what is pictured." I feel bad for whoever shelled out over $20 for it >_>
Actually, I would bid on an auction like this... because with eBay's new buyer protection policy, not only would I get my money back, but I would get to keep the SNAD dime.
Good luck getting ebay to even respond to you if you file a buyer protection claim. I filed a claim last year and i received an automated response saying i'd have an answer in 48-72 hours. Needless to say i filed another claim with paypal and went through that entire process and got my refund and ebay still had not responded. I ended up closing the ebay case because of the paypal refund, then got a customer satisfaction phone call from ebay about the ebay case
When I said eBay, I meant refunded through their cash cow (PayPal); any problem auctions have been refunded within 48 hours; this is especially true with items "significantly not as described".
I had a claim about a year ago. Ran into the same thing - opened a case with eBay, got tired of waiting, then filed a case with PayPal. I was told that the eBay claim took precedence over PayPal, and that PayPal was no longer going to handle claims for eBay items going forward. Has anyone done a direct claim through PayPal recently? Are they still pushing buyers into the eBay resolutions process?
I did one with paypal but it took about 3 months to get my money back. But i still got the money back
Well I ended up buying the coin lol. At least I know it's not cleaned by him! Shown here: http://www.cointalk.com/t157307/
