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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manpace, post: 2345762, member: 77308&quot;]It&#039;s not just that the seller doesn&#039;t know what they are selling, it&#039;s where the seller does something to make it more difficult for buyers to know what they are selling.&nbsp; &quot;More difficult&quot;, not &quot;impossible&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spend a lot of time on Ebay and you&#039;ll start to see what slips through.&nbsp; Poor photographs, mispelled headlines, attribution errors, photos of obverse only - those are all conditions where the unusually attentive can get some bargains.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Misattribution happens a lot.&nbsp; For example, coins of Saloninus &amp; Lucius Verus are often mis-attributed as belonging to much more plentiful emperors.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gotten four or five of those for comparatively little.</p><p>- Coins with bronze disease are ignored by bidders, even when they are exceptional coins.</p><p>- Groups of coins photographed together, where a rare type is shown obliquely or partially obscured by another atop it.</p><p>- Coins with eccentric spellings.&nbsp; If the seller misspells &quot;Hadrian&quot; their listing will not show up on searches by interested buyers.&nbsp; Yes I believe that happened one time.&nbsp; In this group I include sellers listing in dialects that few coin buyers speak.&nbsp; Ebays algos won&#039;t do so well with more obscure languages.</p><p>- Coins sold by people who do not know how to sell them.&nbsp; Estate sellers &amp; dealers who specialize in modern coins may not know what information is most important to make obvious in the listing.</p><p>- Sellers with comparatively few transactions. I am always surprised how little attention sellers with fewer ratings get, particularly when some of the most flagrant fraud on Ebay&#039;s ancient coins are power sellers with great reputations.</p><p><br /></p><p>(If a transaction of this sort goes well I will often admonish the seller to spend more time attributing and generating high-quality photographs in their future listings.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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