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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2104377, member: 46237&quot;]If all buyers were honest, sure. The problem with this is that allowing returns makes it so that buyers don&#039;t really <i>have</i> to inspect the photos properly. They can just count on the return policy to cover them if they don&#039;t like/want the coin for literally any reason. Likewise a buyer may take a gamble (better condition, rare variety, etc.) on a coin knowing they can simply return it if the gamble doesn&#039;t pay off. Then of course there are nightmare stories about dishonest buyers returning nothing, returning a different but similar coin, or cleaning/damaging the coin and returning it for a full refund.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say you sold a coin for $100 and offered free shipping, as eBay likes to push you into doing (and really you have to to remain competitive). Well when your buyer decides to return the coin, you end up refunding them the full $100. Of course the Post Office didn&#039;t ship it for <i>you</i> for free, so now you&#039;re out your shipping costs just so the buyer could look at the coin. On top of the listing/seller fees you pay to eBay and PayPal already, you don&#039;t necessarily have much room to begin with to eat wasted shipping costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I list all my auctions with no returns. If there is really a legitimate problem with the auction and it&#039;s my fault, the buyer can still SNAD it or contact me directly and I&#039;ll make it right. There&#039;s nothing sinister about offering no returns on your auctions. No returns doesn&#039;t mean the buyer can&#039;t do a return, it just means they can&#039;t do a <i>frivolous</i> return.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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