E-Bay 1-Liners

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Pocket Change, May 8, 2007.

  1. Pocket Change

    Pocket Change Coin Collector

    I thought it would be interesting to hear your best E-bay "pickup lines". These are one or two sentences that are supposed to get us to buy the stuff.

    I'll give my favorite three:

    1. These coins (usually wheaties or silver dimes, quarters) were found at an estate sale - they've been sitting in an attic for decades.

    Yeah, well so have everyone else's wheaties!!! What's so special about a dead person's coins?

    2. I don't know anything about coin collecting, but a friend of mine has entrusted me to sell his $20,000 coin collection. I'll be selling these lots over the next few weeks. But I don't know anything about this, so.....

    3. Here's my 1852 MS-70 Silver Dollar. I'll start bidding at $12,000. Sorry about the fuzzy, out-of-focus pictures, I can't take a picture for the life of me.......

    I think you get the idea. Do you'all have any to share?
     
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  3. Drusus

    Drusus Pecunia non olet

    Guaranteed authentic
     
  4. Indianhead65

    Indianhead65 Well-Known Member

    A beautiful MONSTER TONED or RAINBOW TONED coin. (I included a pic of one of these beauties. I posted this pic in another thread a while back.)

    An entire 5 pounds of unsearched wheaties!

    Lists @ $50,000 dollars in MS69
     

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  5. jaytant

    jaytant Active Member

    I don't know much about coins and don't know how to grade them (funny, how I have already sold 500 coins on eBay till now though!)

    This coin trends $7,000,000 :) (replace with random number)
     
  6. samjimmy

    samjimmy New Member

    ... Rare (when of course, it isn't)
    ... Frist Strike (OK, so that's not 100% their fault)
    ... MS70 (on a self-printed slab insert)
     
  7. satootoko

    satootoko Retired

    Guaranteed to contain at least two 1909S VDBs. :goofer:
     
  8. Pocket Change

    Pocket Change Coin Collector

    Ha! I think the USA could save a lot of money on the Witness Protection program. Just hide these people under all those piles of unsearched wheaties on e-bay!!! No one would ever find them :)
     
  9. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    :thumb:
    Lol, thanks
     
  10. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    I'm waiting for one of them in their haste to say, "This baby was just driven by a little old lady!"
     
  11. mikenoodle

    mikenoodle The Village Idiot Supporter

    Indianhead beat me to the punch... How can they know that they're all wheat cents if they are unsearched???

    I guess what they mean is unsearched by them, and even still they say unsearched when in order to sort them they had to be searched by someone!!!
     
  12. kiyardo

    kiyardo Senior Member

    Where do I start. I'm pulling these from eBay as we speak

    ONE LOOK AND YOU WILL SEE THIS ONE IS SPECIAL

    WHAT A STUNNING LITTLE GEM - A REAL WINNER

    ***Investment Quality***

    VERY HIGHLY COLLECTABLE

    RARE INVESTMENT GRADE

    The Most Awesome Coin Collection eVer offered on eBay!

    Buy With Confidence!

    Yes, Truly Mint State!!! Very Scarce in Uncirculated!!

    Please understand. There is no 71 or 70.1

    Oh wait, that was from something else. ahaha
     
  13. Indianhead65

    Indianhead65 Well-Known Member

    Exactly!!!! There are no unsearched wheat cents for sale anywhere IMHO. If you do happen to run into a lot of true unsearched wheaties, you're a very lucky person and I'd like to shake your hand and buy you a drink. Otherwise its alot of BS. No one in their right mind is going to advertise rolls or lots of wheaties for sale without searching them themselves. There are too many valuable key and semi keys to let go for a little bit of nothing. The only chance anybody would have had to get truly unsearched wheaties would have probably been back in the 1940s and 50s when you could still get full rolls of them at the bank for 50 cents. Even then I would say that there would still be that chance that some collector had already searched them. Unsearched Wheaties....gone with the dinosaurs!!!
     
  14. 900fine

    900fine doggone it people like me

    One of my favorites goes like this...

    "Satisfaction guaranteed ... no returns"
     
  15. Indianhead65

    Indianhead65 Well-Known Member

    How could I forget!! lol....Thanks Roy!!
     
  16. djbuna

    djbuna Member

    "Original bank wrapped" rolls!
     
  17. JeromeLS

    JeromeLS Coin Fanatic

    "This coin is a rare and valuable washington dollar which is darker than norma"l...I have seen so many of those
     
  18. Jim M

    Jim M Ride it like ya stole it

    NICKEL "ALMOST UNCIRCULATED"

    And to think its also ALMOST XF

    AND ALMOST VF

    In reality. VG
     
  19. asciibaron

    asciibaron /dev/work/null

    not the same coin as in pic
    good solid coin
    being that grading is so subjective...
    solid date, nice coin

    -steve
     
  20. acanthite

    acanthite ALIIS DIVES

  21. clembo

    clembo A closed mind is no mind

    There are SO many good lines out there. I've always liked(?) the estate sale BS.
    I don't know anything about coins is also a favorite when one sells nothing but coins but how about this oldie but goodie.

    "I've been diagnosed with (fill in your disease) and HAVE to sell my coin collection." Makes me feel bad for those that really ARE ailing.
     
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