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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 3029333, member: 89393&quot;]Hmmm, I bought one advertised as a 1963 proof set still sealed about 2 months ago, but have never opened it. In my own defense, the outer envelope <i>is</i> rather worn as if it may be 55 years old. It would be too late to do anything about this, and the price was OK.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not related to the above, there is a coin seller on eBay who sells some pretty darn good looking coins. All of his listings are &quot;Buy It Now&quot; with free shipping, AND he has that &quot;Make Me an Offer&quot; on all of this listings. I have made offers on some 30 of his listings, usually calculating a 15% discount on each of them, and usually making offers on about five coins at a time. I always wait until the day before his listing ends, too, so it&#039;s not as if I am trying to pull something over on the seller. If there were others who thought his prices were fair, or if there were some buyers making offers of only 10% discount, most assuredly these items would have disappeared. None of my offers have been accepted, and no counter offers are ever presented. The point is, I guess, that the seller really does not want to entertain discounted offers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been tempted to ask this seller why he or she has the &quot;Make Me an Offer&quot; option on the listings; my offers amount to as much as several hundreds of dollars on five or six coins, and that ain&#039;t hay. I have relented because he may put me on some list that forbids me from doing business with him or her.</p><p><br /></p><p>That happened to me years ago when I bought dozens of coins from a seller who neglected to put all of my purchases in the envelope he sent. He followed through a week or so later, but must have thought I cheated him. It was clearly a mistake on his part, and I was a bit offended when I went to start another purchase with him only to find he had set up his block.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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