... to put the year of the coin in the description? This should be the most obvious thing when you're trying to sell something is to give all the details you can, but so many sellers don't put this most basic information. I know I can send them a message asking, but that gets old after awhile. So many put up a blurry photo, a zoomed out photo or a photo of the reverse only. I want to shake these people sometimes.
I'm looking at the first 50 most recent Buy It Now listings for US coins, and 45 of them have dates. Of the 5 that don't, one is for cotton gloves, one for "Mercury dime from rolls", one for "Full date Buffalo nickel lot", one for a Fugio cent (reproduction), and one for "$1,790,000 Silver Package". Are you perhaps looking in a different category? I'm just not seeing the problem from here.
Generally I'm looking at Mexican and British coins. Sellers tend to frame the listing like "10 pesos Mexican coin" is all you'd ever want to know and don't bother with the date. I'm sure more people put the date than don't, but of the ones I click on because it wasn't listed in the title, probably half never mention it in the listing either.
Some examples: http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-BRASS-CIN...327?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415b4e3d07 http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-2-Mexican-5-Coins-/140572010999?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20babea9f7
Sometimes I dont put the dates because its just mainly bullion value so the dates dont really matter.
Another thing i hate anout ebay is that sellers whether they are experienced or idiots think that their coin is worth someing it is not. I mean take wheat cents for example. If a certain date and mint mark of wheat cent is redbooked at 5 dollars in ms65, you wont find a slabbed ms65 or that date for less than 20.
