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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;StevieB, post: 2829716, member: 84249&quot;]It&#039;s been a while since I posted here, but I wanted to post my experience in buying coins on ebay. Instead of making this 10 pages long I decided to make it a question and answer type post with my experiences on ebay. I believe it was close to over 300 purchases. (most purchases were $1 - $75 but there were only a few over $50 purchases)</p><p><br /></p><p>Q: Do sellers switch coins on ebay?</p><p>A: To be honest it is really rare, I believe it happened about 2 times, one time with a Uncirculated Eisenhower&nbsp; Dollar and what I got was it was stapled back in its holder and the coin was circulated, another time it was a Uncirculated mexico coin set, when I got the mexico coin set it was horrible (like it fell in mud) and nothing like the picture, to be fare the seller refunded me and let me keep the item. (So I was&nbsp; bit lucky)</p><p><br /></p><p>Q: Do coins sent in standard letter envelopes get stolen?</p><p>A: Yes it has happened about 8 times so far. I got my money back each time. Also it is not my local post office since I bought coins from new sellers on ebay and they literally threw the coins in the envelope and put a stamp and my address and I got them (you can easily hear them rattling in there and can tell there are coin in there. It happened 3 times when I ordered coins from canada. I had a seller who thought I was lying but I had submitted the email I get from USPS Informed Delivery (they send you pictures of mail you are getting today) and it showed the envelope was clearly opened and I got a refund.</p><p><br /></p><p>Q: If a seller offer&#039;s me more coins (maybe a little cheaper) after messaging them or after a purchase and they offer to make a paypal invoice should I do it?</p><p>A: It is against ebay TOS to do that, before they updated there TOS to include that I did get great deals, I got 10 franklin half dollars for $40 and got 4x bicentennial sets for $10 each. But like I said I would not risking doing that now - there is also a trust issue, I was lucky but you can get scammed like that since it is not covered by ebay moneyback guarantee. </p><p><br /></p><p>Q: Can you get coins under spot price?</p><p>A: Yes I have gotten them many times. A month ago I bought a pre 1964 dimes for $1 and pre 1964 quarters for $2.75 from a seller (he listed the items as having just 1 each but I guess so everyone can have&nbsp; fair chance) I have also bought 1 ounce silver bars/coins under spot. You have to be super quick though because that $17 coin which is listed for $9.99 will sell within seconds, I get very lucky with these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Q: Do some sellers honor the price when you buy a buy-it-now listing?</p><p>A: 99% of the time if the price is a mistake they will sometimes message you they need to cancel it (even if you paid, in which you get refunded) but I notice they just refund and cancel with no message. But as I said that is 99% of the time, the 1% that do are usually low feedback users in my experience, I have gotten 2x silver quarters graded ms69 for $2 total (free shipping).&nbsp; I have gotten a 1 oz silver bar from the 70&#039;s for $3 total and the last one I got was a ms69 graded silver eagle for $4 total.</p><p><br /></p><p>Q: Have I ever been scammed (In the sense I never got the item and my money back?)</p><p>A: I almost did once but this one is mostly&nbsp; rant (sorry), this guy had about 600&nbsp; 100% feedback, It was for a mispriced item and he messaged me when I bought saying it was a mistake and I said it was no problem to just cancel it. Well 2 days pass and nothing. Then he finally canceled the order. Two weeks later I did not get the money back which I messaged him, his reply is &quot;I was on the phone for 2 hours with paypal and it was sent) I did get a email and he sent the refund using a echeck. A week goes by and I get a email from paypal saying the echeck did not go through - so I am getting pissed at this point. I send him a message and he says &quot;it&#039;s not his fault - take it up with paypal I have nothing to do with this problem&quot; so that was the last straw seeing as he was not going to help. I gave negative feedback. Two days later the negative feedback I left was gone and he just message me to &quot;leave me alone I am old and sick&quot; - So I had to do&nbsp; charge back with my credit card company which I won. It took 2 months and till this day the feedback I gave is not there on his account.</p><p><br /></p><p>Q: Do some Sellers try to trick users?</p><p>A: Yes I seen many of them where the sellers put silver in the title and the coin is not silver at all, I made some mistakes in buying coins before reading on the internet. I use ngccoin to see a coin is silver or not before I make a purchase. I never fell for these tricks but be careful: There are sellers selling &quot;rainbow toned&quot; coins and those are done by them, not done naturally - I don&#039;t recommend buying these as they don&#039;t have no where near the value they are listed for. The Eisenhower &quot;Silver&quot; dollar is another trick, some of them have no silver but are listed as 40% silver. Also 1942 silver war nickel - many of these are not with 33% silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will wrap it up with this, I have gotten quite a few good deals but for the most part I believe I over paid for many of my purchases. Like a $12 coin I thought was a great deal I could of gotten for $4.50 - $5 at a coin shop/show - Sadly my only option is ebay and I do not do it as often now, I only buy where I get coins under spot[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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