Would you gamble on this?

Nice thing about Ebay and gambling on these is that for once - the buyer protection is on your side. As a buyer and seller I've felt both sides, and I've even been burned by it as a seller - being taken advantage of (junk returned instead of original - my stupidity let it happen).

I encourage gambling - and royally reaming the deceptive sellers with the Ebay buyer protection.

I did it last year with a 1912-S nickel listing. I was pretty sure it was a D, seller insisted in the ad it was an S. Pictures were blurry and I requested more pictures. Received excuses about why he couldn't get me more pictures (coin at his uncle's house - blah blah blah) and figured it was a ruse. Then he started in on a long story about how he didn't want to clean it and see under the gunk with the mint mark and he (although knew nothing about coins) suspected it would grade VF. It all smelled like 3 week old fish.

I decided to make an example of him, got the coin - it was a 1912-D as I suspected. I immediately filed SNAD, took pictures to send him and made a stink of it - hopefully deterring him from trying the stunt again.

He took what was a fair $10 sale for an honest coin and tried to spin it with lies. He decided to let me keep the coin and refunded my money. He also got bad feedback which he's actually written asking me to remove - stating that I bought a dime from him and was unjust in my feedback.

I say gamble - cautiously. If it's too good to be true, it usually is. If there's a chance - take it and use Ebay's policy to help clean up the deceptive sellers.

 

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Why don't you ask the seller for better pics. Personally I wouldn't waste my money on it.

 

My first thought was, "have you tried to contact the Seller for more information?" If he makes an effort to allay your concerns, is willing to guarantee authenticity, I might take a $10 gamble. In the absence of any additional information, I wouldn't support such selling tactics, even at $10. As it stands, there's way too many red flags. Jack

 

Assuming it's an auction. This one was a buy-it-now listing. SO do you take the gamble? Or ask a question and wait, so that someone else has the opportunity to take the gamble.