eBay negativity?

Fair enough.

 

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Here's a quick story about the benefits of knowing sellers on ebay. Last year I noticed one of my favorite sellers was selling a 1937 Washington proof(pr66). It was the last proof I needed to complete my collection. I was getting ready to bid when the site shut down. I emailed the seller to find out he had a major family crisis going on. Well it took 6 months but he emailed me back and said he was willing to sell the proof if I was still interested. He made a onetime entry on ebay with a specific amount for a best buy offer(not sure how you do that) I put in the offer and the deal went through. The coin is awesome and I'm glad I waited. I'm even more glad the seller followed up with me because I had not seen that particular proof at any coin show I had been at. Getting to know reliable sellers is a key. Also there's one other rule--if a coin seems way too cheap--it's probably has something wrong with it,lol. Any person that has an expensive genuine coin for sale is not going to give it away.

 

I love EBay.
I have often thought about starting a coin shop, but where do you find stock? There is only one coin shop even close to me, but they are not the best. Others are nothing but old men behind empty counters, rooking grandma out of her silverware. No coins. Just an eagerness to profit.
EBay solves this by bringing thousands of collectors together, into the worlds biggest coin store. Any category has multiples of whatever a local store has.
Just be careful.

 

Roger, not sure if ebay still has this but I believe a sale
could be opened up to only certain buyers. Or he set up the Bin with accepting a certain amount with the idea you would get it but if you didn't, perhaps someone else would.

 

Ya, I agree it is good to know your eBay sellers. I recently made contact with one who basically only sold what I'm after - U.S. Air Force trade tokens - and they were for bases that don't come up often. Turns out, he's a collector selling off his collection because his kids aren't interested. He gave me some great tips, and confirmed that my "white whale" was going to be expensive, if I can ever find it. He said in his 30 years he only saw it come up once.

 

I've been selling and buying on eBay since 09/01/02 and I love it. Where else can you get the audience of so many buyers for hardly nothing. My handle on eBay is
haleystamps (917) 100%. I've bought a lot of coins there and sold a few and never a problem. I make sure to look at the shipping cost and the return policy. I don't buy if there is not a 14 day return policy and great pictures. I like to check the feedback scores and the ID history of the sellers I come across. You can have two identities at the same time and some have changed identities a few times, I wonder why.
I've checked out other sites and as long as I can get the deals and traffic I get on eBay I'll stick with them.

 

Agree with 712...I've mostly bought from Apmex and MCM and a few others, mostly for bullion coins < $250.

I did buy one of those White Tiger silver coins and I did have to wait A LONG time to get the coin (6 months or something like that). But the seller said they'd only ship when they got the coin and I knew it was very low mintage. Seller offered to refund my $$$ after a few months, too....they responded promptly and were still selling other stuff so I didn't cancel (wasn't out a lot of $$$ even under the worst case, too).

Eventually, I got the coin.

Ebay is great for checking real-time prices on coins if you have trouble accessing auction sites like Heritage. They tend to be a bit higher on price because of fees and stuff but it's a good approximation.

 

It's a love hate relationship. The buyer has more rights than the seller. Love it as a buyer, eBay protects my purchases. Had a customer receive his PayPal confirmed address, USPS confirmed delivery to the minute. Customer messages me, haven't received it, it is insured right? After 2 weeks of messaging, told him, please return the coin unaltered for a full refund. Can't deny the facts, package was delivered. He gives me a negative and adds "Very unhappy with items, customer service and results. Buyer beware this seller" Ha! Thought he never received it.
Report Buyer, saved all messages and info, but eBay could care less for the seller from a unjustified negative feedback. There went my 100% rating. No help from eBaynoattention.

 

Yeah. Love/Hate for sure. And I can see their point. If people don't get on to buy on the bay, who cares how many sellers there are. And if buyers get on and get messed over by sellers (which has happened to me), and eBay is not there to 'protect', then a lot of the actual good buyers will be off or unwilling to really spend.

And there are lots of sellers who seem to have found a really good niche for themselves and do well with eBay, even going so far as to have loss leaders (really cheap things they sell for a cent) just to keep up their scores. So they continue to get discounts from ebay on selling. And I am back on and loving having some free listings, because I can possibly sell with no downside other than the time I've put into it. I am finding I would rather, as a seller, have free listings (basic) in one category and just pay the sell fees to ebay on both the product and the s/h costs than to be paying upfront for the listing.

And if this 'saves' me enough to be starting back then I guess that's good.

Right now I have lots of things up, but few coin related stuff.

I guess there might be some formula that says more unhappy sellers are better than more unhappy buyers.

 

The problem on Ebay is not so much the "good" Buyer and "good" Seller who have a little tiff. That's very rare.

The problem is the SCAM Sellers and SCAM Buyers who are out to fleece people. Some of the biggest coin sellers on Ebay are knowingly selling counterfeits and pulling back on coins that they find out they sold too low (after the fact) and Ebay does nothing to them because they generate so much in fees.

 

Did you try calling and speaking with a person? Going through the automated submissions is guaranteed failure. If you attempted talking logic to a human and they STILL denied you, ouch, I don't blame your stink eye at ebay.

 

So I very courteously asked a seller if they would accept a price for a GSA Morgan Silver Dollar, I thought they were high. Very courteous and brief e-mail, nothing at all offensive or dismissive.

They replied with "Use The BEST OFFER" button -- which I must have missed (or maybe they added it after my 1st email).

So I tried to submit my bid...and I was BLOCKED !!

I e-mailed them back to ask what is up, but if I don't get a decent response, I wish there was a way to trash their so-called 100% positive rating.

You ask someone if they'd accept an offer and they block you ???

 

UPDATE: So they responded and basically said if I bid close to their asking price (they sent me some 5% Discount Window to bid) my
bid would be accepted/go through (and presumably win). Not sure what I'm gonna do........


"Please be advised that a bid of $575 will automatically be accepted. This item is top quality and priced to sell. Any further consideration would require a bid very near that amount. With the information provided if you are still interested you will need to reply to this email prior to bidding. Otherwise, I would like to thank you for your interest in my item."

 

I don't know all the back story here but if it were me, I'd move on.

 

I agree with this posting EBAY has a 100% guarantee refund for ALL BUYER'S !

 

It's basically what I told you. The seller does not have alot of stuff for sale, so it's not like he's getting bombarded by frauds bugging him and he mistook me for one of them.

BTW, upon reading it again, it looks like I have to e-mail them 1st before bidding.

 

Some members, and moderators apparently have a problem with these opinions being voiced. Because they agree these actions require blocking. Seriously.

 

Oh, I meant the potential coin purchase on eBay...unless that's what you meant too.

 

I was just hoping, as I have stated, to be told exactly what rule I broke to deserve censorship. Because I am prettttttty sure I abided by the rules. Even in 'Murica the police have to tell you why you're being arrested. I think a more accurate recounting of it would be similar to my other "warning" (also given in error, as it was discussed further through PM and concluded it was a misunderstanding due to 'typing tone-loss' yet never corrected or restored). Trigger happy moderatoring saves noone. If one read (which multiple forum members actually DID and agreed with) what was written rather than knee-jerk reacting with a spanking censoring, you would have concluded differently. But with so much riffraff to sort through I guess it's expected to just pull the guillotine lever every time rather than comprehend the poor guys story.