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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2075781, member: 31533&quot;]I would say this is not a huge thing, depending on the item. Many eBay sellers are in a time-crunch to get the photos taken and up. They are generally not professional photographers and even if they are, the item photoed is not photoed to win any awards, it is there simply to convey the fact that there is an item and what it is basically. There are types of items that, even if watermarked, lose their saleability to a lot of people who simply will take the image and have their &#039;collection&#039; with images; these are people who might buy the item if that wasn&#039;t available. Watermarks can be taken off. Coins, obviously, are different for most... buyers want them in their hot little hands. But, still, doing the best photo of each could take a lot of time that is unproductive to gain a sale from some who will only buy if the pictures are great. Now that eBay and PayPal are buyer friendly, all it takes is to do a SNAD if you get the coin and it isn&#039;t what you wanted, especially if the pics were bad enough. And some surf ebay for poor descriptions, badly titled items, and bad pics so that they can cherry picks stuff from unwary sellers who post poor quality or bad pics. And knowing that bad pics can keep some away lowers the number of competitors for those. </p><p><br /></p><p>But you do have to know your stuff because if you operate on thinking you know more than most, you may not, and you may lose. But you do have a lot of protection from PayPal&#039;s and eBay&#039;s policies right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not put off by bad pics so much as I am with other things that give off red flags in an item&#039;s description or by the seller with the type of items he/she sells being completely different and bad pics/bad descriptions, and then suddenly a quality item appears and it is described very well with very great pics. Something could be very rotten in Denmark with that &#039;seller&#039;. But I probably wouldn&#039;t be buying things worth thousands of dollars on eBay (in most cases for non-professional sellers).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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