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<p>[QUOTE="ambr0zie, post: 8112863, member: 80952"]I would pay the 7.20 EUR and forget about the house. Especially since from what I see, the buyer's fees ARE included. In my opinion this is a sign of amateurism (forgetting to add a fee or forgetting the fee is actually added).</p><p>Being beginners is not an excuse. For me, this kind of mistakes could mean they might "forget" to ship all the coins or, by human mistake, they swap coins between packages or other beautiful things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some years ago I had a bad experience with an auction house. Funnier in fact.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411611[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, my 250 EUR prebid (accepted by the house in a separate email) should have been the winning bid.</p><p>In the live auction, a member of the house staff presented all the lots, live, speaking Polish and the bids were in Polish currency, not EUR so I didn't understand a thing. But, having the prebid over the winning bid (even converted in EUR) means I won, right?</p><p>Wrong.</p><p>After an email ping pong with the house, initially assuring me that 230 > 250, they finally acknowledged their mistake.</p><p>My compensation?</p><p>...</p><p>...</p><p>wait for it...</p><p>...</p><p><i>Unfortunately we can only apologize you. <font size="6">We decide to give you an discount 2% buyers fee for our next action.</font></i></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><font size="4">My decision was to forget about these idiots, even if the possibility of "an discount" (quite large, 2% of the fee? wow) for the "next action" was tempting. </font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ambr0zie, post: 8112863, member: 80952"]I would pay the 7.20 EUR and forget about the house. Especially since from what I see, the buyer's fees ARE included. In my opinion this is a sign of amateurism (forgetting to add a fee or forgetting the fee is actually added). Being beginners is not an excuse. For me, this kind of mistakes could mean they might "forget" to ship all the coins or, by human mistake, they swap coins between packages or other beautiful things. Some years ago I had a bad experience with an auction house. Funnier in fact. [ATTACH=full]1411611[/ATTACH] As you can see, my 250 EUR prebid (accepted by the house in a separate email) should have been the winning bid. In the live auction, a member of the house staff presented all the lots, live, speaking Polish and the bids were in Polish currency, not EUR so I didn't understand a thing. But, having the prebid over the winning bid (even converted in EUR) means I won, right? Wrong. After an email ping pong with the house, initially assuring me that 230 > 250, they finally acknowledged their mistake. My compensation? ... ... wait for it... ... [I]Unfortunately we can only apologize you. [SIZE=6]We decide to give you an discount 2% buyers fee for our next action.[/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=6] [SIZE=4]My decision was to forget about these idiots, even if the possibility of "an discount" (quite large, 2% of the fee? wow) for the "next action" was tempting. [/SIZE][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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