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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8186912, member: 110350"][USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER], perhaps you're right, although I don't really see what you mean about the NAC/Leu specimen. Which part of the folds -- on the right?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, the MA-Shops example has its own issues, like the ding on the obverse at 11:00 and the scratch through the top of the legend on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>Plus, I do feel that I was deliberately misled, for the reasons stated above. [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] and [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER], isn't there a less ambiguous word in French that would have more specifically conveyed the concept that this was the same "type" rather than the same specimen? </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER], the very reason I picked this coin as opposed to the many other solidi for sale was the provenance. Maybe I would eventually get over the bitterness about having been deceived, but it would take some time. Even if the dealer came back and offered me a partial refund, it would have to be pretty major for me to change my mind!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=94602]@pprp[/USER], it doesn't matter that it was a retail sale rather than an auction. Once you commit to buy at MA-Shops or VCoins -- and especially once you've paid -- you're not entitled to simply "change your mind" and get your money back, without a good reason such as the coin being fake or a material misrepresentation in the description of the coin. Or its provenance. So yes, writing an "essay" was in fact necessary. Remember, I was making my case not only to the dealer but to MA-Shops itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8186912, member: 110350"][USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER], perhaps you're right, although I don't really see what you mean about the NAC/Leu specimen. Which part of the folds -- on the right? In any event, the MA-Shops example has its own issues, like the ding on the obverse at 11:00 and the scratch through the top of the legend on the reverse. Plus, I do feel that I was deliberately misled, for the reasons stated above. [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] and [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER], isn't there a less ambiguous word in French that would have more specifically conveyed the concept that this was the same "type" rather than the same specimen? [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER], the very reason I picked this coin as opposed to the many other solidi for sale was the provenance. Maybe I would eventually get over the bitterness about having been deceived, but it would take some time. Even if the dealer came back and offered me a partial refund, it would have to be pretty major for me to change my mind! [USER=94602]@pprp[/USER], it doesn't matter that it was a retail sale rather than an auction. Once you commit to buy at MA-Shops or VCoins -- and especially once you've paid -- you're not entitled to simply "change your mind" and get your money back, without a good reason such as the coin being fake or a material misrepresentation in the description of the coin. Or its provenance. So yes, writing an "essay" was in fact necessary. Remember, I was making my case not only to the dealer but to MA-Shops itself.[/QUOTE]
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