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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1067574, member: 15309&quot;]If this buyer was a frequent scammer, it would be apparent from his feedback given over the years.&nbsp; He has been a member of E-Bay since 2003 and only has a feedback score of 148 which means he is a casual E-Bay buyer.&nbsp; Of those 148 transactions, he has left 4 negs and 3 neutrals.&nbsp; That number of problems seems high but not indicative of a scam artist.&nbsp; The only other coin he has purchased on E-Bay in the last six months is a 2008-W Gold $5 PCGS PR69DCAM BALD EAGLE for $370.&nbsp; He bought that coin a week before he bought the $20 Franklin Half from Pilkenton and he left positive feedback.&nbsp; Here is the link to the auction item.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rt=nc&amp;nma=true&amp;item=120654326353&amp;si=yLdHbS9IR5RXt%252BDjjOkSuDXLB50%253D&amp;viewitem=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rt=nc&amp;nma=true&amp;item=120654326353&amp;si=yLdHbS9IR5RXt%252BDjjOkSuDXLB50%253D&amp;viewitem=" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rt=nc&amp;nma=true&amp;item=120654326353&amp;si=yLdHbS9IR5RXt%252BDjjOkSuDXLB50%253D&amp;viewitem=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So you guys want me to believe that a casual E-Bayer who is buying $350+ gold coins is trying to scam $5 on another auction.&nbsp; That makes absolutely no sense at all.&nbsp; It appears to me that this guy has it in his mind that if he doesn&#039;t get perfection, he uses feedback to communicate his displeasure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not condoning his apparerent use of feedback extortion but then again, we only have Pilkenton&#039;s side of the story.&nbsp; And I should remind everyone that Pilkenton is the one who once wanted an E-Bay seller to hand deliver an item to him instead of charging shipping when he found out that he and the seller lived in the same town.</p><p><br /></p><p>You guys can think what you want, but my opinion is that if Pilkenton had clear photos and reasonable return policy, he would have avoided this incident.&nbsp; BTW, he has since included a return policy in his auctions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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