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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 2336407, member: 15019&quot;]First off, I don&#039;t sell anything on eBay that I expect to do over $300 or so (though sometimes it does - darn auctions <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), so my experience may not apply much.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always had an open door policy where I accept all bidders. In 7 years I have had to refund 5 lost (or &quot;lost&quot;) items: one to Canada, one to Mexico, one to Israel, one to a US buyer that did a charge-back and afterwards vaguely admitted they felt that they paid too much. All of those buyers had plenty of good feedback and no red flags.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also had to refund a pricey multi-coin purchase to Russia when he claimed it lost after a month. The guy contacted me 3 weeks after he was refunded that the package arrived and re-sent the payment. The Russian guy was a new member when he bid on my coins.</p><p>Not drawing parallels or conclusions, just saying that stereotyping or being overly cautious may actually not be good for your long term bottom line. But I guess that depends on what you sell and you guys that use eBay for higher end stuff are more prone as fraud or mail theft targets.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I would in no way go forth with the transaction that the OP posted. It&#039;s possible that it&#039;s just someone that was looking for a specific coin, found it on eBay, didn&#039;t have an account and so they used guest check out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Possible, yes. Probable, no.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you collect coins and magically happened upon this place called eBay where you could find hundreds of thousands of coins and equally magically never heard of it as an internet using collector, I think you&#039;d create an actual account rather than have a one night stand with it. The logic (or lack thereof) with this is just another red flag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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