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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aberlight, post: 303577, member: 6510&quot;]Mike,</p><p><br /></p><p>I used &quot;if&quot;, &quot;probably&quot;, &quot;may have&quot;, and &quot;could&quot; in my response because I am certain my wife would not try to deceive people while not knowing what she was doing and uncertain as to a proper format. There is no telling what her auction would look like thus the use of unknown, but likely terminology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the prices of the mentioned seller are unrealistic now I would fell much better buying from this guy at lower prices who is just trying to get the auctions listed and sold than I would with&nbsp; someone that I consider to be dishonest such as stating &quot;This coin is worth $1500 in MS65&quot; when it is a $100 AU58 coin or even worst sellers like simplycoins or tuesdaynightcoins, klondike95, ernie, and greatsoutherncoins who notoriously over grade the coins or worst reslab coins in NNC holders or SGS holders. By the way I have the above names blocked from my Ebay searches and what they do I consider to be the worst deception and what is sad is that they are getting the higher prices for the off the wall slabs despite the true grade despite Ebays attempt at blocking the numerical grades from non-approved graders. Its sickening.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not only is Ebay a &quot;Wild West, but I have seen just as bad people at coin shows. I picked up a modern silver eagle with Artificially Toned toning at a coin show. $13 melt value. The dealer offered it for $30 and told me &quot;son if this coin was graded it would be a $50 coin&quot; I told him no one would grade it and handed it back to him. Most of these guys I come across (and I sure these guys just stand out) are just like used car salesmen. Once I came across someone in Dallas that had nice and really nice MS coins ungraded...all ungraded. How many dealers do you know that dont have any graded coins? Well this guy had the the heritage prices and was quoting everything as MS65 when it was MS62......DECEPTION </p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said originally, people should always use caution when buying on Ebay graded or ungraded, but you know someone out there would look at my auction and say this guy is trying to scam me by offering a $200 coin with a opening bid at 99cents and if I opened the bid at $200 someone would say this guy is trying to scam me by offering a $175 coin for $200. And in all honestly the only reason is I would open the bid at 99 cents would be to avoid Ebays higher insertion fees along with attracting more people while the bids are low so that before the end of the auction I would have a frenzy of bids that would get me close to the $200 mark or higher as people have set their minds on buying my item where as if I opened the bid at $200 I might get a bid, but not likely as eveyone wants a good deal.&nbsp; I dont consider this auction style as deception. Only marketing. I list the item, provide clear images and hope for the best and risk not getting what I should.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully for the people following this thread don&#039;t write off auctions with low opening bids while everyone else writes off the quality items started with realistic bids and god help the people bidding on Ebwcoin and Ernie with their opening and buy it now bids.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope between the two of us new people are learning to be critical, but not over critical. I know when I got into collecting more seriously I bought a few items that were good deals, but only because of slight problems that I over looked. But I offered what I thought was fair based on past auction prices and I always took the images and zoomed in using photoshop to get a better feel for the coin. There have been times I over paid, but I got what I had been looking for and overall was happy and other times I got a great deal. Grading and pricing is subjective and collecting is purely acquiring items of interest at prices that are comfortable to the buyer. A shinny quarter to someone is a rare MS69 coin just as it can be doctored or a counterfit coin wheras people will pay $100 for it and others use it towards a soda.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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