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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 1664787, member: 36230&quot;]A seller return policy is essentially meaningless on ebay these days;&nbsp; the site has really become the world&#039;s largest on-approval service as&nbsp; opposed to the open sales venue it should be.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In response to the OP&#039;s gamble question, do you honestly think the&nbsp; seller knowingly offered a BIN at less than 25% of the coin&#039;s real&nbsp; value? While it is technically possible, it&#039;s not likely. I do have a&nbsp; few questions...</p><p><br /></p><p>-You said this &quot;variety&quot;, so is it safe to assume we are taking about an&nbsp; actual variety and not a type? If so, did the seller state that the&nbsp; variety is noted on the actual holder, or just on the stock image and is&nbsp; a self attribution? If banking on a seller-attributed coin sold with a&nbsp; stock photo, you should have seen a HUGE red light instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>-Did you inquire as to why a stock image was used? In this day and age&nbsp; there is no valid excuse for anyone selling a coin worth more than a few&nbsp; dollars to use a stock image. Digital cameras that can offer more than&nbsp; acceptable results can be had for a fraction of this coins price, so&nbsp; there is no reason to assume the seller (or any regular coin seller)&nbsp; offered cheap because he was unable to image. Even a cheapie cell phone&nbsp; photo says at least something to potential buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p>-I am sure you are familiar with the fact counterfeit PCGS slabs do&nbsp; exist, so once this coin arrives, will you be able to authenticate it on&nbsp; your own? Don&#039;t rely on people here; this is something you need to be&nbsp; able to do yourself. Another member mentioned cert numbers, and while&nbsp; this is always a wise move, a correct number does not necessarily mean a&nbsp; good coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>From this and other threads of yours, it seems as if you possess the&nbsp; &quot;deal mentality&quot;, and as I&#039;ve said many times in the past (including, IIRC, in some the OP&#039;s threads) when a newer collector possess the deal&nbsp; mentality, it is often a recipe for disaster. There are sellers out&nbsp; there looking to make a quick buck and who know very well that the deal&nbsp; mentality is everywhere today. Locally there are a number of people who&nbsp; actively search out newbies, especially on CL, because they are&nbsp; relatively easy marks. Time and time again I&#039;ve seen such people fall&nbsp; prey because they focused more on the dancing dollar signs in their head&nbsp; than on the coin itself. I understand it is human nature to want a&nbsp; deal, but one must use their head and even more importantly, know their&nbsp; limitations when doing so. This is not to say you are unable, but please&nbsp; take what I&#039;ve said as food for thought as only you can truly and&nbsp; honestly answer this question.</p><p><br /></p><p>-You said that this would be a $1000+ coin, but failed to mention if&nbsp; this is a guide value or reasonable retail market value. I&#039;ve sold many&nbsp; coins at half trends and even told the buyers that the price was market&nbsp; fair, but I also knew they too were searching for the profit and if&nbsp; offering an honest product, it is not my responsibility to protect&nbsp; people from themselves. Depending on the type, date, and individual&nbsp; coin, any guide can be essentially meaningless, both high and low; there&nbsp; are some coins that I would gladly pay full trends for a properly&nbsp; graded specimen, and others that I will not touch at 50% bid or less, so&nbsp; my question is: how did you come up with this potential value?</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that this does not come off as being harsh, but I see no reason&nbsp; to sugar coat. Obviously fine deals can still be had on ebay, and I&nbsp; truly hope this purchase turns out well for you, but in my most humble&nbsp; opinion, I believe the chances are quite slim of it being everything you&nbsp; wish. That said, I do hope I am wrong and wish you the best of luck,&nbsp; sir.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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