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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2167092, member: 27832"]Not true. There is no market for $500 low-res photos of this coin, or $2200 pairs of photos of AGEs. The <i>only</i> way these sales proceed is by deceiving the buyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Naive buyers will "win" these auctions, pay their money, and receive their photos. They will protest. The seller will claim that the auction clearly described what was for sale. eBay will side with the buyer. It's happened before; it will happen again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know whether the seller is behind this, or whether someone hacked his account. I don't know whether the person behind the auction thought (incorrectly) that he could get by with the "it was technically as described" argument, or whether he thought he could get away clean with the money before eBay caught up to him. In either case, he will fail, so it's a self-limiting problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2167092, member: 27832"]Not true. There is no market for $500 low-res photos of this coin, or $2200 pairs of photos of AGEs. The [I]only[/I] way these sales proceed is by deceiving the buyer. Naive buyers will "win" these auctions, pay their money, and receive their photos. They will protest. The seller will claim that the auction clearly described what was for sale. eBay will side with the buyer. It's happened before; it will happen again. I don't know whether the seller is behind this, or whether someone hacked his account. I don't know whether the person behind the auction thought (incorrectly) that he could get by with the "it was technically as described" argument, or whether he thought he could get away clean with the money before eBay caught up to him. In either case, he will fail, so it's a self-limiting problem.[/QUOTE]
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