Wow! How about a Cheerios dollar to go with that milk?

I think its best if we don't go into this...let it drop.

Speedy

 

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back to the Sac itself, so the Cheerios sac will have all those slanted lines on the main tail feather like the picture or what?

 

My interpretation is that the Cheerios 2000-P Sac will have the tail feather details and a raised feather spine. The non-Cheerios Sacs have an incuse spine.

And, the Cheerios Sacs always come with a 2000 cent !

 

OK, Speedy. You're probably right, but hey, I have thick skin. It's too bad that some people have such short fuses sometimes when there's really nothing affecting them. Oh well.

As far as the Sac, Bacchus is right about the feather spine. Also, the tail feathers themselves are much more defined.

 

"P.S. I stand by my insinuation that lucky intentionally set his reserve so high that he couldn't possibly sell the coin in an effort to circumvent eBay's final value fees. Additionally, I'd be surprised if this doesn't cause him future trouble since eBay tends to be VERY offended when some tries to cheat them out of their fees"

again i did end up selling the coin thru ebay so - - i did pay the ebay fees - - it cost be about 70 to post it on ebay the first time because of the reserve and the it cost me another 58 for the final selling valuse thru ebay - - again if you dont know what your talking about dont talk at all - -

 

tanner the rude comments were not directed to you they were directed to cave stating that i should - get NARU's from ebay - when again he was assuming that i didnt end up selling the coin on ebay (and paying the fees) - like he is ebay patrol (by the way i did sell it on ebay) and paid double the fees for posting it twice and then finally selling - - and why is it any of caves business how i sold the coin - - i sold it for much less than my reserve - - i was only going on information that was presented to me i wasnt "using ebay as a promotional tool" and i guess cave should report me to naru's (whatever that means) as you can see caves post is gone as well (the one i responded to that offended you people) - -

 

Lucky,

I suspect that the person who told you to hold out for $6000 was hoping to inflate the price artificially, but that’s just a surmise on my point with no facts to back it up.

I was on another coin site and a dealer commented that his store was buying those coins at $2500, the same price you got.

I think you did fine with the $2500. I think a lot of experienced coin collectors were surprised at the value of this coin. I think a lot of them didn’t want to admit that something this modern could be worth so much.

I think if I were General Mills (if they’re still the company that makes Cheerios) I’d find some way to publicize the surprising result of the original promotion, and then run another similar promotion. I imagine they’d get a flood of buyers hoping history would repeat itself.

 

I don't know about 'worth' that much, and the longer I collect coins, the less I am surprised at just how much some people are willing to pay for stuff that doesn't appear 'worth' it to me.

luckybox,

As far as you and ebay are concerned, that is between you and ebay.

You sold your coin - good for you. You realized a hefty profit of 2500 minus the cost of a box of cheerios five years ago - again, good for you.

A lot of folks around here are going to balk at this sort of thing. I guess I'm one of them. But then again, I didn't buy your coin, so the transaction did not rely on my opinion. I think we can all agree that we all hope that the purchaser of this coin is very happy with it, since it appears you are very happy with your profits. Then it would be a perfect transaction.

 

luckybox, don't charge too quickly into the ring...all it would take is one of us reporting the transaction's details to eBay to cause some "ruffled feathers". It's not the nature of most of the people in this forum to do such things but no one is going to let someone else run over them.

Anyway, hope you're happy with the amount you sold the coin for. I read on another forum a thread about one of your losing bidders declining your offer and why. So, even though the coin sold for a great amount, when relatively compared to other modern coins of this type, I think the transaction caused a perception that tainted what could have been a really nice story. If you hadn't taken Mr. Braddick's suggestion and just outright sold the coin instead of putting a reserve, you'd been ahead of where you are now. Too bad.

 

I give this thread 3 more posts before it disinigrates into emotional backwash or strays total off the topic of coins......doh....with my post its now down to 2.

 

I'm sure it'll be locked down shortly and that'll be the end....now down to 1.

 

WOOHOOO!!! I'm the last theoretical non-emotional post!

 

Nooooooo ... now we're down to MINUS one.

 

"luckybox, don't charge too quickly into the ring...all it would take is one of us reporting the transaction's details to eBay to cause some "ruffled feathers". It's not the nature of most of the people in this forum to do such things but no one is going to let someone else run over them."

i still dont understand this -- - how could anyone possible "report" me to ebay - i put the oicn on it didnt sell - - i put it on again and it sold - - the coin wasnt sold off from ebay - - i guess that is what is making me upset - that you believe that ive done somthing wrong

 

hey luck- here's a little info you might be interested in, so you don't sound so uninformed next time. No one "get [sic] NARU's [sic] from ebay". NARU is an acronym for "Not A Registered User". To be NARU'd by eBay means to have eBay suspend your account.

Your quote, "like he is ebay patrol" couldn't be closer to the truth. I regularly sell on eBay (and am a Power Seller) and I am proud of doing things the right way. I along with a small group of eBayers regularly patrol the coins section on eBay reporting fake and misleading coins. EBay reviews our reports and (usually) responds appropriately, this make it safer for the average buyer there. So yes, I am eBay patrol, (along with a number of others) and I take it very seriously.

Finally you said, "as you can see caves post is gone as well (the one i responded to that offended you people)." You couldn't be more wrong. The post is still there and it is number 85 in case you want to go back and check.

I think you were off by a couple, but I'm tired of this thread so I'm doing my part to get it locked.


P.S. luck, I do have a real question for you, what was your purpose in coming to this board? You obviously aren't a coin collector and from your first post you acted like you had a huge chip on your shoulder, so what was your goal in joining our group? I guess I just don't see the purpose.

 

Reporting is easy, here is the link to report a bad eBay listing. But if you did sell to one of your bidders through the propper channels (presumably through a second chance offer) and paid eBay its FVF then you have nothing to worry about.

eBay staff couldn't possibly review all of the items listed there everyday so they rely on "volunteers" to sift through the thousands of listings and let them know when something isn't right. But like I said if you did everything through eBay then they will ignore any reports sent to them since they know the whole story. Your post seemed to indicate that you had avoided selling to your high bidder and I checked the bidders list and the bid of $2500 wasn't that particular bidder's highest offering. I know that eBay's second chance offer system allows you to sell something to the second, third, fourth, etc. highest bidder(s), but I wasn't aware that you could sell it to them for less than each particular bidder's maximum bid. Hmmm, I'm still not sure of that, but oh well, it really doesn't affect me anymore, it's eBay's problem, not mine.



edited for spelling...

 

Just to settle the ebay score... and don't ask me why I did it, because the answer would be along the lines of 'extreme boredom'... I ran a completed auction, and it all appeared as has been described.

After the auction - a 'buy it now' listing was created, and ended for the amount of 2500.00, oddly enough to a user that did not bid in the first auction, but was probably watching it... who can tell. In any event, ebay got their cheese from this trade.

 

ahhh, that explains why he "had to list it twice"! and it solves the problem I was having with figuring how he got a second chance offer to work when his claimed sale price wasn't a possible amount that he could have offered anyone as a 2nd chance offer.

hmmmm, strange indeed.

thanks, Rick

 

You guys just won't let it drop, will you?

I hope that no one starts a new insult thread now that this one is closed .