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<p>[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 1686111, member: 39084"]What objective reason can there be to continue doing business with this seller? You've twice been disappointed by him/her, and both times there is a putatively reasonable explanation, but the end result is the same -- you paid money and got nothing in return. OK, you'll receive a refund (have you, yet?) but consider this: a truly excellent bait-and-switch scammer would act <b>exactly</b> this way so as not to lose you as a future customer: apologize profusely, appear sincere, offer other (not quite as good) coins for your already-made payment, and finally, if all else fails, offer to refund your money.</p><p><br /></p><p>This situation may be as Doug describes in his response above -- that this seller is just a very incompetent/unorganized business person, doesn't know where his inventory is or whether or not his coins have been sold, sells on multiple venues, etc. -- and that is a reasonable interpretation of this sequence of events. But my experience in similar situations (not with coins) tends toward the more sinister conclusion that I first posted in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, I can't see any objective reason to do business with this seller.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 1686111, member: 39084"]What objective reason can there be to continue doing business with this seller? You've twice been disappointed by him/her, and both times there is a putatively reasonable explanation, but the end result is the same -- you paid money and got nothing in return. OK, you'll receive a refund (have you, yet?) but consider this: a truly excellent bait-and-switch scammer would act [B]exactly[/B] this way so as not to lose you as a future customer: apologize profusely, appear sincere, offer other (not quite as good) coins for your already-made payment, and finally, if all else fails, offer to refund your money. This situation may be as Doug describes in his response above -- that this seller is just a very incompetent/unorganized business person, doesn't know where his inventory is or whether or not his coins have been sold, sells on multiple venues, etc. -- and that is a reasonable interpretation of this sequence of events. But my experience in similar situations (not with coins) tends toward the more sinister conclusion that I first posted in this thread. Regardless, I can't see any objective reason to do business with this seller.[/QUOTE]
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