Mine are: 1. Poor photos. I've seen poor/blurry photos on $10,000 coins. If your gonna sell a $10,000 coin, why not invest $150 on a halfway decent camera? 2. Loosely using the term "rare". A 1913 Liberty Nickel is rare. A 1964 Jefferson Nickel is not. What are some of your pet peeves?
Easy, high shipping. Why is it $5 or more to ship one tiny a** coin? I avoid listings when the shipping is excessive. Over priced coins in BIN is another thing I detest.
I agree with both. I think a lot of overpriced bins are just dealers fishing for a sucker. I dislike free shipping. Say a coin is $4 with free shipping. The seller pays $2 to ship it. Now if you buy 2 with $5 free shipping, the seller probably pays an extra 25 cents, but you pay double, since you don't get a break for combined shipping.
Sellers that offer a "Make Offer" option along with their BIN price, but won't accept any offers below their BIN. Like they assume I'm going to offer a higher price than the BIN or something? Guy
When the coin is 99 cents, or 1 cent, and shipping is 13.00, I dislike losely using he term rare to, only 3,000,000 minted, and only 700,000certified, makes their 1964 graded au 50 by IGC, worth 50.00
I'm not joking. There was a $10 item with a "make offer" button. I offered $7.50, the seller countered with $9.73.
The high fees that sellers have to pay EBAY and Paypal. I can send coins to great collection and they do all the work of selling the coin and shipping the coin for half of what it cost to sell on EBAY.
Ebay fees aren't that bad. Most auction houses use a 17% fee that is passed on to the buyer. Buyers adjust accordingly. All an Ebay seller has to do is adjust their pricing to reflect the fees. Simple. Guy
1. People who list all their coins with adjectives like "Beautiful! Must see! L@@k!!!! Fantastic shape!" and then you look at the coin and it looks like it was run over in the parking lot a few times. 2. As mentioned, high shipping fees. 3. People who put no description of the coin, but a 2,000 word description of their business philosophy and all the things they will or won't do. Then they have all these graphics that clutter up the page as I look in vain for their combined shipping discount. 4. People who don't give the coin's date and only show one side - the side without the date, of course. 5. People who write in ALL CAPS. 6. People who won't combine shipping.
Fyi, the photos are blurred on purpose in some cases because they stole the pictures from other auction listing or google. Because they are fruadelent listing (some kinda of paypal scam), ship you a counterfiet item or just lazyness.
1) WOW!!!! LOOK!!!! (Get a life.) 2) Tilted images (Hi there. Am I suppose to tilt my head through the computer screen?) 3) $6 shipping for a $10 item. (Anything else? Donation to your kid's college fund?)
These are all good ones. One of the biggest ones that bug me is on key date non-graded coins. A lot of them try and self grade and charge AU Price for a VF Morgan. I run into this ALL THE TIME while i'm trying to finish my Morgan CC collection.
Oh, cant forget the this one. Sticker guy! When i've searched U.S. coins I have to scroll through countless listings with stickers all over the holder the coin is in. Damn I detest that seller.