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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1919945, member: 29751"]He/she didn't say that in the listing. But, this <i>is </i>the highest graded example from PCGS -- and in my opinion it's a dog based on those images. It might be beautiful in hand, but it's eBay and so we are all going from images alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this thread reaffirms for me is that some dealers are ok losing money. If you're selling top end coins on eBay, why the heck not pay someone to take decent pictures of the coins? There are many dealers who have superb selections of coins, very high end and scarce items, but they are either too lazy, too cheap, or too ignorant to realize that the bidding on a venue like eBay (where there is no in hand low viewing) would be much more to their benefit if they took proper images.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, to recap, the dealer can be the nicest and most trustworthy in the business -- that doesn't mean they can't improve. And, this one could improve massively on his/her images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1919945, member: 29751"]He/she didn't say that in the listing. But, this [I]is [/I]the highest graded example from PCGS -- and in my opinion it's a dog based on those images. It might be beautiful in hand, but it's eBay and so we are all going from images alone. What this thread reaffirms for me is that some dealers are ok losing money. If you're selling top end coins on eBay, why the heck not pay someone to take decent pictures of the coins? There are many dealers who have superb selections of coins, very high end and scarce items, but they are either too lazy, too cheap, or too ignorant to realize that the bidding on a venue like eBay (where there is no in hand low viewing) would be much more to their benefit if they took proper images. So, to recap, the dealer can be the nicest and most trustworthy in the business -- that doesn't mean they can't improve. And, this one could improve massively on his/her images.[/QUOTE]
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