Prices continue to be rather good from the coinsncards eBay store. Just wondering if anyone else has had a good buying experience & aftermath. J.T.
Too spendy for me, but some beautiful stuff and lots of good feedback. https://www.ebay.com/str/coinsncards
They've been discussed at length in these threads too: https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=367307 https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=387874 https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=362578 https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11466254#Comment_11466254 And this bit of feedback on one of their closed auctions that someone had graded after: I wouldn't feel confident buying from coinsncards given what I've read in all of the above.
Well, that's a surprise. Given the number and similarity of keys they're moving, I figured there was no chance they were genuine coins.
And they responded that a coin graded as "cleaned" by PCGS is very subjective and the coin would need to be resubmitted numerous times for accurate grading. If PCGS says it's cleaned, I think I'll trust their judgement on that, not this seller's.
That's because any bad feedback Ebay let's them remove as soon as they get it. It will not even count as feedback revision. In many ways Ebay is in bed with bad sellers.
That's rather infuriating, while I haven't sold anything in years, I did go through a rough patch when I had to liquidate some very nice watches, and I sold a bottom of the line 18k manual wind Patek to a "motivational speaker" in Australia, at a very amazing price, and he had the temerity to leave me "neutral" feedback because when he asked for the pedigree info, I told him what everyone knows about Pateks (if you are interested in them / a collector) to contact Patek for the run down and he was mad because I wouldn't do that for him. What an a...ole. That still irritates me, lol. I have always hoped that his name would come up at some corporate event I was involved with, alas no, he is not that successful.
Sellers are out there everywhere...incl on eBay if not mainly by sheer numbers...making their claims, assessments, and opinions about their raw coins for sale. That people...you/me, et al... disagree with their claims, etc., does not, in/of itself, make them "bad sellers" nor eBay a bad stage. But the reality is that it's much more incumbent on buyers to know what they're looking at and to ask questions, request more photos, do their research, ask for help, et al, before buying or if to buy, etc...but again, esp with raw coins. I wouldn't buy anything raw of any real value from anyone I didn't well know/trust or who didn't come highly recommended by someone I did...and well. Not defending eBay...they could/should absolutely do a better job policing their website for obvious issues of deliberate misrepresentation, fraud, and ultra-excessively inflated prices, and I don't like them anymore than many here on CT, if for different reasons than this, but the old tried/true advisory of "buyers beware" isn't about sellers.
some nice coins, i especially love the 1895 proof v nickel, wish it was in my budget, but at the moment i am cash light..lol i did bid on the 22 d cent
