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<p>[QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 2071470, member: 58810"]no one said learning was fun. but there are good reasons these rules are here in the first place. see my link on post 52, to my locked down thread. guy sold me a coin swore up and down it was the original from the picture and surprise after i told him not to ship it to me he did anyway. not that i did but i think he would have been a seller worthy enough to send an empty box.</p><p><br /></p><p>but i digress. the point is that eBay is a market with rules that favor buyers, which has evolved from the misdeeds of venders. is the op a problem vender ? no but he now has to live with the shackles that others misdeeds earned everyone. I'm not saying there are not problem buyers out there I'm just saying that the prior abuses by sellers caused this new problem. the pendulum swung from one peak to the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>people here are quick to tell someone that they "deserved" to be ripped off by unscrupulous coin dealers and that it is the buyers "fault" for being taken advantage of. yet i hear nothing in the other direction here ever. I'm not cheering on a problem buyer. But my post uses the same coin talk logic used whenever someone fraudulently sells a coin to someone and then everybody and their mother (doug) start chanting "books before coins" and "you deserved to be taken advantage of".</p><p>it sucks, doesn't it? maybe we should all support the side that had fraud committed against it, not just the sellers of coins. just a thought.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>yeah good luck proving that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vegas Vic, post: 2071470, member: 58810"]no one said learning was fun. but there are good reasons these rules are here in the first place. see my link on post 52, to my locked down thread. guy sold me a coin swore up and down it was the original from the picture and surprise after i told him not to ship it to me he did anyway. not that i did but i think he would have been a seller worthy enough to send an empty box. but i digress. the point is that eBay is a market with rules that favor buyers, which has evolved from the misdeeds of venders. is the op a problem vender ? no but he now has to live with the shackles that others misdeeds earned everyone. I'm not saying there are not problem buyers out there I'm just saying that the prior abuses by sellers caused this new problem. the pendulum swung from one peak to the other. people here are quick to tell someone that they "deserved" to be ripped off by unscrupulous coin dealers and that it is the buyers "fault" for being taken advantage of. yet i hear nothing in the other direction here ever. I'm not cheering on a problem buyer. But my post uses the same coin talk logic used whenever someone fraudulently sells a coin to someone and then everybody and their mother (doug) start chanting "books before coins" and "you deserved to be taken advantage of". it sucks, doesn't it? maybe we should all support the side that had fraud committed against it, not just the sellers of coins. just a thought. yeah good luck proving that.[/QUOTE]
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