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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2221278, member: 36230"]With all due respect, ma'am; who are you to this person, and why should he simply take your word for it? Did you not think providing him with the result of your research was the reasonable course of action? Perhaps if you had simply provided evidence of your conclusions, he would have taken the claim of someone completely unknown to him more seriously. </p><p><br /></p><p>You may be exceedingly knowledgeable in this area, and truth be told, as much was said about you by someone I trust immensely, but the fact remains that the seller didn't have this luxury. While this may not totally excuse him from not looking further into it (if he, in fact, didn't and/or is not basing his belief on the advice of another) in less time than it took to start this thread you could've tried to educate and possibly independently prove to him why the medal is fake. After all, you said yourself that he "probably didn't know how to do the research", so wouldn't it have been better to help him truly understand why it's fake instead of just calling him "dishonest"? While certain it wasn't your intent, you're shaming someone who you've admitted to believing incapable of personally verifying information provided to him by a complete unknown. I'm sorry, but this approach simply doesn't make sense to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2221278, member: 36230"]With all due respect, ma'am; who are you to this person, and why should he simply take your word for it? Did you not think providing him with the result of your research was the reasonable course of action? Perhaps if you had simply provided evidence of your conclusions, he would have taken the claim of someone completely unknown to him more seriously. You may be exceedingly knowledgeable in this area, and truth be told, as much was said about you by someone I trust immensely, but the fact remains that the seller didn't have this luxury. While this may not totally excuse him from not looking further into it (if he, in fact, didn't and/or is not basing his belief on the advice of another) in less time than it took to start this thread you could've tried to educate and possibly independently prove to him why the medal is fake. After all, you said yourself that he "probably didn't know how to do the research", so wouldn't it have been better to help him truly understand why it's fake instead of just calling him "dishonest"? While certain it wasn't your intent, you're shaming someone who you've admitted to believing incapable of personally verifying information provided to him by a complete unknown. I'm sorry, but this approach simply doesn't make sense to me.[/QUOTE]
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