The old switcheroo was pulled on me

As does mine.
If everything goes well, I will give him positive feedback. I'm glad that this was a good seller, and I wasn't the one to tarnish his feedback, instead, I recommend him as a seller.
I've never had a mixup, I mark all my packages carefully if I have more than one up for sale, and I double and triple check before I make any markings and finalizations, but I can see how it can happen with a HUGE inventory.

 

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Speaking of human errors while selling on eBay: I accidentally re-listed an old un-sold lot of IHC's and within a couple of days unknowing re-listed it again. It was a shock a little while later to find that the 2 lots of identical coins had been won by the same bidder. Man o Man o man, talk about customer service going into overdrive. I apologized so profusely and gave him a lot of better dates and grades IHC's for FREE as well as the (1) original lot that I accidentally sold to him twice! Thank goodness he appreciated my forthrightness and gave me all positive feedback.

 

Lucky you!
Mistakes happen to the best of us, but on eBay, with all the horror stories, and different things people have experienced, you always have to second guess if the seller/buyer really is a 'good' person.
Glad to know things worked out for you! :thumb:

 

i am very glad it worked out for you. especially with all the bad sellers on there.

 

I was going to say you sure are roasting the e-bay seller for what could easily have been (and apparently was) a simple mistake.

Be very careful from jumping to conclusions about someone you have no direct experience with. There are very many (the majority, IMO) good and honest sellers on eBay and we should be careful from painting with too broad a brush.

 

p.s. T$, I'm glad to hear things are working out.

 

I don't believe one can easily make generalizations about ebay sellers. However, I will take the guy with 100% over 1000 feedback score any day over over someone who is in single digits. There are many known big name national dealers who have fine reputations in the industry who have been kicked off the Bay for one reason or another.

I always shudder at the folks in single digits who buy a big ticket coin, a lot of the time they will flake out.

 

That may have a lot of truth to it, but everyone must start someday. A lot of people don't bother to start until they have time on their hands. I much prefer dealing with a hobbyist than a professional "store". In fact the only time I ever felt taken advantage of was by someone with a eBay "store". When I have contacted "newbees" with questions about items, they have always given me the best info they could, and seemed truly honest about it. When I have contacted "dealers" I have gotten responses like "We don't really know, this is a consignment item" or "Grading is subjective, we do not stand by the grade" and especially dangerous are those "No Returns Accepted". But that's just me.

 

Have you heard from the seller yet? What's up?

 

He heard a few posts back. Evidently the guy made a mistake, got the coins mixed up and was going to make it good.

 

Hmm, thought I checked all his posts and didn't see that - guess I missed it. Thanks

 

Still waiting on contact from the seller, apparently he received the coin 4 days ago.
http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSIn...nquiry.do?origTrackNum=9107785091401610509984
If no contact is made today, tomorrow I'll drop him a line about it.

 

At least you know that if you paid with PayPal you will get a refund if not the right coin. Likely, he just mailed the right one ?

 

As we all know, on eBay, both happen, the switcheroo and mistakes. I've had what I believe to be the switcheroo happen twice, both times when I won the auction at what I believe to be a very low price, the most recent I'm dealing with now. I won a roll of coins at half the going rate and what I received was not the roll in the auction, it's probably worth half. Anyway, the seller claims he sent the wrong roll and will mail out the correct one today. We'll see what I get.

 

No he said he would just refund my money. I told him I was okay with that.

 

That makes me suspect that he didn't have the coin in the first place. If it were me, I would avoid doing business with him in the future.

Chris

 

If the seller is R&I in Encinitas, you can be sure that this wasn't an attempt to rip you off. R&I is a major dealer and an authority on cameo coins. My dealings with them have always been on the up and up and I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone. Their coins are not cheap, but (IMHO) not outrageous. It may take longer than you'd like to get things made whole (especially if the US Post Office is involved), but eventually things should get sorted out. Keep us informed.

 

Definitely sounds like a con game. Hope you're going to share the sellers name with us (after you get your money back).

 

Refund was issued today, and positive feedback was left both ways.

 

I have to disagree due to a major seller of anything can accidentally send the wrong orders to the wrong buyers. Rather than having the buyer who is thrilled because they received the wrong coins that far exceed their expectations , go through the hassle of mailing the coins back , a smart seller would just take the hit on that sale and do a total refund to the other buyer that received coins that were far below what was advertised. That way you have the best chance of all parties being adequately satisfied.