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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1586350, member: 28199&quot;]Interesting.&nbsp; Let me turn the tables a bit.&nbsp; What if several buyers started bidding thinking that smudge was actually an &quot;S&quot; mint mark and trying to cherry pick, and ran the final price up to $150.00?&nbsp; Are you then contacting the bidders asking &quot;What are you thinking?&quot; and advising them it&#039;s not what they think and you will not accept such a ridiculous amount for this lesser value coin, or are you simply accepting the payment, shipping said coin, and dealing with the fallout when the buyer realizes what they&#039;d done?&nbsp; And how will you deal with that fallout?<span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>The lesson learned here is to <i><b>PROOF READ</b></i> your ads.&nbsp; Too many people think with eBay that they can become big-time dealers just by opening an account, and find that when they act unprofessional by hurriedly typing the ad copy and posting blurry photos, then find a buyer who took advantage of that and cherry picked a coin, they fall back on the &quot;But...I&#039;m a newbie&quot; wail.&nbsp; Same as someone buying a coin they hoped to cherry pick because of said bad copy and blurry photo, find out it&#039;s not what they hoped, and sing the &quot;eBay Buyer Protection&quot; song. eBay is not a casino.&nbsp; There should be no &quot;gambling&quot;.&nbsp; Again, like someone else said, welcome to the real world.&nbsp; Business is hard.&nbsp; What you learned is to be sure of what you&#039;re selling, and proof read your ad before posting.&nbsp; Sometimes education can be expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I understand it, when you post an item for sale, and after the auction ends and someone wins, this creates a binding contract between the seller and the winner of the auction.&nbsp; Period.&nbsp; It does not open up the item for negotiation.&nbsp; He pays, you sell at that winning bid.&nbsp; Pretty simple.&nbsp; Unless you want to fall back on the &quot;Not responsible for typographic errors&quot; line, but it was you, after all, who made the error, so that wouldn&#039;t wash either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just looking at this from a hypothetical point of view, because, after all, you got lucky.&nbsp; I am curious as to what eBay would have said if the situation actually existed.&nbsp; My guess, they would quote the &quot;binding contract&quot; clause.&nbsp; They would not allow the newbie excuse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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