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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 701458, member: 4350&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s where we disagree.&nbsp; No one is getting ripped of buying candy corn, no matter what they call it....Corn or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not,&nbsp; new collectors that were not playing with coins in the fifties and sixties,&nbsp; have no idea what a &quot;poormans&quot; double(d) die is.&nbsp; They see one of these things and think it is something special and valuable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Heck,&nbsp; dealers think machine doubled junk coins are doubled dies.&nbsp; I see them at every show and when you try to educate a dealer in a nice way about machine doubling they look at you cross-eyed and worse,&nbsp; they keep a $2.00 buffalo nickel marked at $100.00.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you know what a coin is and you label it as anything else,&nbsp; no matter what it was called in the past.&nbsp; You are attempting to deceive.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most people who gravitate to coin forums have some knowledge about coins in general.&nbsp; But believe me when&nbsp; tell you that huge numbers of dealers and collectors are clueless about errors and die varieties and coins struck by worn dies.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of propagating bad terminology we should be using proper terminology and teaching about what has been mis-represented for years.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That will lessen the problem for legitimate dealers who don&#039;t attempt to rip people off with misleading labeling.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If this thing is not a double(d) die , which it isn&#039;t then it shouldn&#039;t be called one. </p><p><br /></p><p>Whether you see it or not,&nbsp; people are getting ripped off by poor descriptions and poor titles on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again,&nbsp; If a coin is listed as &quot;what it is&quot;&nbsp; sell a million of them.&nbsp; If it is listed as what it is not, something is wrong.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We were all bothered by the guy selling Wide AM and Narrow AM cents that were identified incorrectly.&nbsp; Why is this any different,&nbsp; because the 1955 cent is not as expensive?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As my daddy used to say...&quot;It&#039;s the principle of the thing&quot;.&nbsp; The value of the coin doesn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; The inaccurate listing matters but what&#039;s one more bad listing on eBay...</p><p><br /></p><p>My ethics don&#039;t change from a 10 cent item to a multi thousand dollar item.&nbsp; It&#039;s a matter of doing what is right and up front.&nbsp; I am bothered that even 30% of the posters here think that it is OK, just because it is not a huge issue.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody could sit there and list these cents all day as they are that common.&nbsp; If someone took a thousand of these things ($10.00 face) and sold each for $20.00 a piece, listing them as something they are not thereby turning that ten bucks into $20,000.00,&nbsp; would you applaud that person or be bothered that 1000 collectors got ripped off.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I side with the collectors and it is a shame that there are people who would applaud the rip offs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry to be Blunt,</p><p><br /></p><p>Bill</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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