How is this Possible? Polished Morgans and all great reviews?!!

You gotta admit. The guy is smart. You don’t like the polished, cleaned, over-graded piece of snot you paid too much for? Return it, no questions asked. That hooks as many as his descriptions. Who would offere a no hassle return if the coins were’nt good, right?

 

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Exactly, I just dont get it, I did the same found many happy folks

 

Right, I assume he is just being honest that he knows they are junk, and if you dont like that send it back. People are most likely too lazy to send.
Makes you think, what am i doing looking for nice natural coins when actually all the premium is paid for nicely polished coins.

Literally, if I sell 3 morgans with natural tone and three polished of the same date and condition, which would turn more profit?

 

He is totally honest I will give him that. Just makes my stomach turn when I sell a nice coin for less than his polished Morgans lol

 

Please grade the coin on your own.
Ahahaha. There is no grade.

 

Maybe I should just start polishing my culls I buy. I Pay around $14-16 each, some cheap silver polish and get 25-50% profit. What a genius this guy is.

 

Honest is not a word I would use. Clear, forthright, descriptive, maybe. Birt there is nothing “honest” about what he is doing, which is ripping-off the terminally stupid. Didn’t your mom ever tell you not to mistreat dumb animals?

 

When the day comes and they take their coin to a shop and are only offered less than melt, then they will know they were taken.

 

Sad but true.

 

He gets the good reviews from ignorant people like me I bought a bunch of shiny peace dollars on eBay thinking how nice the coins were and the incredible details. The seller did NOT include in the description that they were cleaned. He had all the stuff you listed though, free returns, money back guarantee etc.. and tons of great reviews.

I received the coins and was super excited about how pretty they were. I promptly, like a good little eBayer left flowing reviews. Some time went past and Christmas was approaching too quickly. I was a bit short for a present for my wife and thought I would see about selling my shiny coins. That is when I learned about the dishonesty of some sellers and coin cleaning.

The coins were only worth their silver value. I was pretty irritated. I felt that it was paramount to fraud by not listing that the coins had been cleaned. However there is not any proof that the seller cleaned them nor knew they were cleaned. I believe he did but perhaps not.

Anyway, once you leave feedback you cannot change it. I believe this is one way that the positive feedback happens. It is left long before a problem is discovered and then it cannot be changed.

 

Was thinking about this. Last year I was asked to help a friend with a huge collection he inherited from his deceased father. The collection was truly massive. I went about carefully inventorying everything and opened one box..... Well, my initial reaction was an audible gasp. Stacks and stacks of mirror like Indian cents. My initial reaction was immediately changed with the next realization that they were all highly polished cull cents.

The man was an older and seasoned collector. Why he chose to polish all these cents is a mystery to me. I will say that even as culls they were certainly pretty to look at. While I would never condone polishing coins I can see why some folks may appreciate viewing a polished piece of history.

 

I cannot deny that shiny metal looks nice, and if they were the man’s coins, he has every right. This situation is a little strange because this seller is polishing in order to doop folks. In my opinion.

 

People cleaned their coins in the old days before it was known to be damage.
Coins get filthy, and they are proud of them and want to show them off.
So they cleaned them, and liked them looking shiny and new.

 

I could see polishing old and basically non-valuable coins to give to young ones as a part of history. Gives them something cool. But to sell them without identifying it is just not the right thing to do. But, once again, it comes down to did the seller even know that the coins were cleaned? Hard to know. If he/she did then selling them without listing that information is a pretty crappy thing to do IMO.

 

Back in the late '60's and the 70's, I had a friend that would buy common date Uncirculated Morgans (around $10 each or so) and the first thing he would do, would be to polish them to a high sheen. We told him he runt the value and now they were only worth silver content. He said he did not care, he was never going to sell them and they were his coins and he liked them bright and shiny.

 

Every one knows how dark and grimy silver war nickels can look, right? I bought about 10 on eBay once and they were in plastic holders, and though I could tell they didn't look as dark as typical war nickels, when I got them I realized they had all been cleaned and polished. A lot of the detail was gone. I wasn't even sure they were genuine at first. When I messaged the seller and asked why she cleaned and polished the coins, she said she didn't do it. She said she got them from her grandpa that way.
As many of you have said " Back in the old days ......"

I still have them and they're still bright and shiny in their plastic holders.

 

I’m not sure at least a few of his buyers don’t care. Sort of like the outfit that peddles artificially toned coins.

 

However, you can leave followup feedback, and there's apparently no time limit on this. I've used this to attach warnings when I found a problem only after leaving initial positive feedback.

Click on your own feedback number to view your own feedback. At the bottom of the page, below the list of feedback, you'll see links for Leave Feedback, Reply to Feedback received, and Follow up to Feedback left.

The first one gives you a list of transactions for which you can still leave feedback. The second one lists feedback you've received, and gives you an opportunity to leave a reply to each feedback. The third one lets you follow up on feedback you've left, whether or not the feedback recipient has replied.

However, you can only leave a reply or follow-up once per transaction. So you can't get into an extended back-and-forth with the other party. But you absolutely can leave a note expanding on your initial feedback, even if years have passed since you left it! (I just went to the end of my list, and got a chuckle from the eight-digit item numbers... )

 

Yeah, I've had to do that to a few knuckleheads before.

My pet peeve about feedback are the sellers who just absolutely refuse to leave/give feedback to anyone.
One guy, when I asked for feedback, said he had a "bad experience" with feedback before and therefore never gives feedback to anyone anymore.
Another one lied and said he "cleans up" his undone feedback once a month and I should just wait, and he would get to it. I waited and then checked his feedback "left for others" and found that he hadn't given anyone feedback in over 6 months.When I confronted him about it, he just laughed and said ______ off ! You know, that word you can't say on '50's TV??

Anyway, they sure didn't have a problem accepting the great feedback I left for them.

That reminds me : I need to check some bids !

 

Now that would be worth a followup comment.