This isn't what I ordered!

Personally, I've never had coins switched on me (fingers crossed), but I've had coins show up out of the blue I never ordered! It turned out the original buyer had the same last name as me and the dealer mixed us up when labelling the package.

 

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The problem is not that mistakes are made; we all make mistakes. The problem comes when a dealer expects the customer to bear the cost or trouble of correcting the dealer's mistake or decides that his time is too valuable to correspond. There is a VCoins dealer who forgot to send me the coin I bought with immediate Pay Pal on two consecutive orders. Both times he apologized and sent the coin after being reminded. This is a hobby for me. Getting attitude or getting ignored reduces the fun of my hobby. I do what I need to do to increase fun and that includes not repeatedly ordering coins that may or may not come. Call me unreasonable. I will point out that earlier this year a dealer I have dealt with for 28 years made an error for the first time I can recall in nearly 100 transactions. I was taught years ago that it takes a hundred Atta-boys to offset one Aw-shucks. That means he still has about one credit remaining.

 

I have had it happen a few times. The most recent time I bought one particular RR bronze and the seller sent me another one. Unfortunately he couldn't find the coin I actually ordered so we worked out a deal for a partial refund and I kept the coin I ended up receiving.

 

This actually just happened to me today! A few days ago, I ordered volumes IV and V of the Ancient Coin Collecting series. I saw that Wayne Sales (who wrote them) was selling autographed copies on Amazon, so I sprung a few extra bucks and ordered them directly from him. He mixed them up and sent me volumes V and VI instead. When I sent him an email, willing to return VI (which I already had), he told me to keep it and that he would put IV in the mail on Monday. A real class act! In other news, I've really been enjoying reading this series...

 

I bought approx 300 ancients this past year for my collection. I have not had any wrong ones. Only one was lost. I have probly purchased the same value in other classes of coins... none wrong. Most purchases online.

 

Wow !

Q

 

Really, I've only bought "36" humble coins this year (so far) ...

Oh, and two brand new vehicles (*sigh*)

 

Now that's gotta be rare

 

Very lucky indeed.

 

Yeah, those needed Vehicky's can suck the life out of disposable income!