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<p>[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 2935201, member: 13307"]I don't bother even trying to buy/sell coins on FB marketplace for a few reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I don't want someone figuring out where I live and coming to kill me over some stupid pieces of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) I don't want to deal with the aforementioned lowballers who will offer you 2x face for silver dollars or complain when your asking price is similar to a LCS web-published buy prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) FB Marketplace is, as far as I know, not moderated at all (FB provides zero customer service for Marketplace...I've tried.) I've sold laptops for my father on FB Yard Sale Groups, which are moderated. If you screw someone over, or act like a fool, you get banned from the group. FB Marketplace is where all the creepers hide out. Creepers like the kid who offered me $100 for a $800 MacBook Pro...when I repeatedly and politely declined his offer, phew...did the obscenities and insults fly. And that's just one example. Another? Who shows up to buy something <i>without the money</i>? Someone who's been kicked out of a Group, that's who.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) I no longer try to sell coins on Craigslist either. Especially here in STL (aka Murdertown). I always remember trying to sell a group of about 200 decent non-cull IHC for bargain basement prices. Had a guy agree to meet me and buy them all. Met him, sat there for 30 min while he picked through them, then tried to buy FOUR of them at the same rate. Who calmly packed them all back into the tube and quietly walked out? This guy. </p><p><br /></p><p>5) Yes, I have also driven somewhere to meet up with someone (who showed up late, of course) who had cheap silver dollars. If they had been named through a public voting campaign, they would have been called Fakey McFakerstein.</p><p><br /></p><p>6) I once posted a WTB ad for coins. I actually put my buy offer price in the ad...and it was immediately flagged by other jerks because I wanted to pay better than they did. Put the ad back up, it was flagged right back off.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like you said, the only coins I ever see on FB/Craigslist are modern pocket change, bulk-quality world coins, or coins with images so blurry you can't tell if maybe it's just a mirage, and it was all just a dream...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stldanceartist, post: 2935201, member: 13307"]I don't bother even trying to buy/sell coins on FB marketplace for a few reasons: 1) I don't want someone figuring out where I live and coming to kill me over some stupid pieces of metal. 2) I don't want to deal with the aforementioned lowballers who will offer you 2x face for silver dollars or complain when your asking price is similar to a LCS web-published buy prices. 3) FB Marketplace is, as far as I know, not moderated at all (FB provides zero customer service for Marketplace...I've tried.) I've sold laptops for my father on FB Yard Sale Groups, which are moderated. If you screw someone over, or act like a fool, you get banned from the group. FB Marketplace is where all the creepers hide out. Creepers like the kid who offered me $100 for a $800 MacBook Pro...when I repeatedly and politely declined his offer, phew...did the obscenities and insults fly. And that's just one example. Another? Who shows up to buy something [I]without the money[/I]? Someone who's been kicked out of a Group, that's who. 4) I no longer try to sell coins on Craigslist either. Especially here in STL (aka Murdertown). I always remember trying to sell a group of about 200 decent non-cull IHC for bargain basement prices. Had a guy agree to meet me and buy them all. Met him, sat there for 30 min while he picked through them, then tried to buy FOUR of them at the same rate. Who calmly packed them all back into the tube and quietly walked out? This guy. 5) Yes, I have also driven somewhere to meet up with someone (who showed up late, of course) who had cheap silver dollars. If they had been named through a public voting campaign, they would have been called Fakey McFakerstein. 6) I once posted a WTB ad for coins. I actually put my buy offer price in the ad...and it was immediately flagged by other jerks because I wanted to pay better than they did. Put the ad back up, it was flagged right back off. Like you said, the only coins I ever see on FB/Craigslist are modern pocket change, bulk-quality world coins, or coins with images so blurry you can't tell if maybe it's just a mirage, and it was all just a dream...[/QUOTE]
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