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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 696185, member: 13650&quot;]In bold.&nbsp;&nbsp; Absolutely insane.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I&#039;ve said it before and I&#039;ll say it again.&nbsp; Feedback is absolutely meaningless.&nbsp;&nbsp; Do you realize how easy it is for crooks on ebay to rack up thousands of positive feedback?&nbsp;&nbsp; Just the other day I caught a guy buying Chinese replicas OFF EBAY and re-selling them on ebay!&nbsp; But nobody was catching it because he was selling so many, genuine, cheaper, modern stuff that it all blended in.&nbsp;&nbsp; AND THE BUYERS RECEIVING THE FAKES DIDN&#039;T KNOW ANY BETTER THEMSELVES so they were leaving positive feedback for him.&nbsp; &nbsp; He&#039;s still out there selling, BTW.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; In coins, it&#039;s safe to assume that the majority of positive feedback is left by very uneducated people who don&#039;t really know what they received.&nbsp; They just know they received &#039;something&#039;, in a timely manner.&nbsp;&nbsp; That = positive feedback.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I just received a coin today.&nbsp; The seller has over 5k feedback.&nbsp; 100% positive with a couple neutrals.&nbsp; Should be no problem right?&nbsp;&nbsp; Wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I get the coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s not even what was pictured.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s an obvious gash on the obverse that&#039;s been filled!!&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I have to waste time sending it back and getting a refund.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the feedback was great!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; <b>If you want an honest opinion as to why people seem to be coming across harshly, I will give you several.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; First off, you came here as a newbie not that long ago.&nbsp; You average 10 posts a day.&nbsp; You went from wanting to learn, to being a near, self proclaimed expert in a very short period of time.&nbsp;&nbsp; But yet you keep buying expensive coins and then throwing out posts concerning them, looking for approval from the boards.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s like you&#039;re throwing crap at a wall and seeing what will stick.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Aside from that, most here don&#039;t care to look at coins from an investing standpoint because of the difficulty and would rather just enjoy collecting.&nbsp; When you start talking money and profits concerning anything, most of the time conversations will go down hill.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Aside from that, right or wrong, you give the impression of being a spoiled kid, who did not work real hard for the cash you&#039;re throwing at coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some may find that irritating.&nbsp; Also most people do not like to discuss what they paid for something in an open forum.&nbsp; Many people may find that distasteful as well.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; To constantly focus on the idea of investing, buying cheap and looking for someone less educated to take advantage of to one extent or another, isn&#039;t necessarily the most popular thing to discuss.&nbsp;&nbsp; You&#039;re asking for controversy from the get go.&nbsp;&nbsp; You should not be surprised when a thread takes a turn for the worst.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; You did not purchase this $20 coin to stash away in a collection.&nbsp; In a week or two, you will have it back on ebay telling us what it&#039;s selling for.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; You also come across as being naieve because it is apparent you don&#039;t realize the seriousness and real danger of fakes circulating around out there.&nbsp; Especially on ebay.&nbsp; Many times using the actual metal content from cheaper, real coins that have been melted.&nbsp; So the metal content may or may not be correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Now lets assume the $20 IS real.&nbsp; Ok, easy enough.&nbsp; Now you probably should send it in to be graded because it&#039;s very likely the next buyer would want a coin that expensive to be in a TPG slab.&nbsp; &nbsp; Then that&#039;s a whole nother battle.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s very likely it will come back in the purple, problem slab as AU-details, cleaned, like they are doing with almost everything these days.&nbsp;&nbsp; Which makes it an authenticated, but problem coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, now someone spending that much money would rather have a non-problem coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The fact is that almost ANY coin that could be sent in to a TPG (especially higher dollar ones), that could be encaspsulated to increase it&#039;s value, have very likely already been sent in.&nbsp; To me, it looks like sellers dump most of their problem coins on ebay hoping to rip off someone who doesn&#039;t know any better.&nbsp; Across ALL types.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; My thinking on loose, higher dollar coins goes more like why isn&#039;t it in a slab?&nbsp; &nbsp; The true, good quality, loose coins are mixed in with all the problem coins that may or may not have been rejected at some time.&nbsp; &nbsp; Now, you may not mind that.&nbsp; But the potential buyers you&#039;re going to want to sell to, will.&nbsp;&nbsp; And it will affect what the coin brings.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; On top of that, it would seem you could use a lesson in humility.&nbsp; You don&#039;t need to prove anything.&nbsp; Just live and learn with everyone else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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