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<p>[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 855716, member: 246"]As an eBay seller I've had this come up several times. The easiest answer is 'no'. </p><p><br /></p><p>It generally takes me about 2 minutes to pack up a shipment. That includes printing the invoice, grabbing the coin from inventory, printing the shipping label and postage, and packing everything into a padded mailer. TWO MINUTES. How long is it going to take to go meet someone and cost me in gas? </p><p><br /></p><p>There is also the security aspect. I have met several people in person and those experiences have ranged from very pleasant to very disturbing and almost stalker-like where I honestly question the sanity of the person I've been meeting. </p><p><br /></p><p>The person also now knows what you look like, and likely knows what car you drive, the license plate, and can easily follow you home. Do you want to subject your family to this?</p><p><br /></p><p>While not relevant to this situation, on more expensive items you have the problem of either being paid with a large sum of cash, being given a check which may bounce and you've already turned over the merchandise, or being paid with PayPal and having no proof of delivery and a chargeback can be done. For this reason I mailed a coin to a buyer that I <i>literally</i> could have walked out my front door and thrown it to his front door across the street.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 855716, member: 246"]As an eBay seller I've had this come up several times. The easiest answer is 'no'. It generally takes me about 2 minutes to pack up a shipment. That includes printing the invoice, grabbing the coin from inventory, printing the shipping label and postage, and packing everything into a padded mailer. TWO MINUTES. How long is it going to take to go meet someone and cost me in gas? There is also the security aspect. I have met several people in person and those experiences have ranged from very pleasant to very disturbing and almost stalker-like where I honestly question the sanity of the person I've been meeting. The person also now knows what you look like, and likely knows what car you drive, the license plate, and can easily follow you home. Do you want to subject your family to this? While not relevant to this situation, on more expensive items you have the problem of either being paid with a large sum of cash, being given a check which may bounce and you've already turned over the merchandise, or being paid with PayPal and having no proof of delivery and a chargeback can be done. For this reason I mailed a coin to a buyer that I [i]literally[/i] could have walked out my front door and thrown it to his front door across the street.[/QUOTE]
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