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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 420918, member: 4580&quot;]I collect large cents but gave up since I find no better ones on ebay than what I have, and the years I don&#039;t have never seem to come to auction.&nbsp; So at much more reasonable cost, I began to collect Patriotic Civil War Tokens and now am also delving into the CWT Store Cards.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The &#039;fact&#039; that Joe was a great golfer in India was a JOKE.&nbsp; Everybody laughed hard but Joe laughed hardest and longest. And I know it was that instance that motivated him to begin to play golf himself. It&#039;s a nice game to play with folks that laugh with you.&nbsp; : )</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I went and looked through a couple of pages on your coins site.&nbsp; Cool.&nbsp; You have a lot of nice examples and some coins are in very high grades.&nbsp; I see also that you sell coins.&nbsp; I have a secret love for a certain period of quattrino and quattrini coins from Tuscany.&nbsp; I have a silvered one in AU-UNC, and several others from EF to AU.&nbsp; And I could be very interested in any really artsy coin, token, or medal, like cathedral interiors.&nbsp; I don&#039;t yet own any of those but hope to some day.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that most quattrinis are sold and buyers do not have any idea about how to grade those coins and pay a lot for a lot of junk.&nbsp; But, when I can recognize weakly struck areas on a coin and determine that there really isn&#039;t much wear, I find some nice coins now and again.&nbsp; : )</p><p><br /></p><p>Folks from Italy will stalk ebay items and offer to buy if you cancel the auction, or add Italy&nbsp; to your shipping list.&nbsp; I have a shipping list of the United States only.&nbsp; i&#039;ve sold a good number of coins on ebay and have a 100% feedback rating.&nbsp; But, any seller on ebay now is very likely to encounter some dolts that will claim they didn&#039;t receive a coin, get a refund, keep the coin and give the seller negative feedback.&nbsp; They may be the same trolls that hack into accounts, stalk people on discussion boards, and sell Chinese counterfeits at steep discounts, advertising with photos of coins marked &quot;COPY&quot; and then sending coins with no such markings.&nbsp; So I&#039;ve stopped selling.&nbsp; ebay doesn&#039;t want us unless we sell a few million dollars worth of coins every month or year.</p><p><br /></p><p>I once said on a discussion board that with the escalating fees, nobody can make any money if they pay a normal amount for their product.&nbsp; Sellers selling fakes can afford the bay and PayPal fees, because they pay so little for their products and counterfeit coins. ebay actually supports those sellers (in disputes) over honest, small time hobbyists and would-be entrepeneurs.&nbsp; ebay&#039;s president can&#039;t talk honestly.&nbsp; Every word out of his mouth is some non-descript corporate line gobbledygook.&nbsp; Every word he says about good things for small sellers is a fabrication along the same lines, while implementing things in an opposite (anti small seller) manner. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll talk about some alternatives to ebay in my next test post.&nbsp; This will only be available for a week. I like that.&nbsp; : )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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