http://www.ebay.com/itm/351411893603?redirect=mobile Local pick up only, will not ship but will donate your "penny" to their chosen charity if you can't pick it up. The single unidentified wheat cent. I thought you couldn't have settings on private if you were selling. I must have my wires crossed somewhere. What a scammy seller.
At a winning bid of 21 cents, the joke's not only on the buyer, but on the seller too. For fees, eBay gets 2 cents, and PayPal gets a whoppin' 30 cents.
No, but the listing does state "Please pay by Paypal" . . . for those who would enjoy taking money out if this seller's pocket, buying for something less than the 30c might send a message to this seller.
Since they use the same image over and over again I would go pick it up. If they give me a different wheat cent I would give them a hard time
Usually that pattern is to build a new seller up to a 'respectable' feedback rating. With minimal effort over a few months you can farm a couple dozen accounts then sell them off to others. Not sure what the game is here - trying to get to 10K sales for the next color star???
Not sure why they won't ship, BUT I also sold a few random pennies before. Ebay offered a promotion to my buyer name once... they would give me $10 ebay bucks for each item I sold, up to $50. I sold 5 wheat pennies (and lost about $1 total per sale), but I got $50 in ebay bucks for it!
You can't sell if your feedback is set to Private. You can make listings private, though. This used to be common for "adult-oriented" material, or anything that the buyer might not want showing up in his purchase history (or where the buyer wouldn't want to show up in a list of bidders). Now that bidding and purchase histories are effectively always private -- the auction number and item description don't show up in feedback you've received as a buyer, and your ID doesn't show up in feedback you've left as a buyer -- I'm not sure what legitimate reason there is to run a private auction. I guess it still blocks the anonymized feedback and bidding history, which prevents certain kinds of analysis, but the message I get from it is "I have something to hide in my sales history".
