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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2140868, member: 27832&quot;]See, this is what creeps me out about going back to <i>selling</i> on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=44104]@aubade21[/USER] has a good reputation here, so <i>we</i> can assume that everything unfolded as he described. Given the seller&#039;s terminology (&quot;die mistakes&quot;, &quot;stems go all around rim&quot;), we can also assume that the seller doesn&#039;t know what he&#039;s doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what about a random eBay Buyer Protection customer-service rep, who knows nothing about either individual or about numismatics? There&#039;s a buyer who says &quot;I got a coin that wasn&#039;t as described&quot;, and a seller who said &quot;I sent what I described, the buyer is trying to scam me with a coin swap&quot;. How can they tell which side to believe?</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I&#039;ve read here and experienced myself, eBay will side with the buyer. But what if the situation were reversed, with one of our well-known members selling a good coin, and an unknown buyer trying to do an <i>actual</i> coin-swap scam? As far as I can tell, there&#039;s no way for the seller to defend himself to eBay. That scares the heck out of me.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I <i>do</i> go back to selling on eBay, I&#039;ll post really clear photos (because I have that capability), and I&#039;ll have the ability to photograph both the coin I sell and the coin I receive in return. I don&#039;t see how this will help, though, because how would eBay know that <i>I&#039;m</i> not scamming <i>them</i> by doing a coin-swap on <i>my</i> end?</p><p><br /></p><p>Since plenty of people still buy and sell successfully on eBay, I assume this kind of fraud is still the exception rather than the rule. But as long as this loophole is open, eBay will attract more scammers. I&#039;d hate to be caught holding the bag when and if they finally achieve the majority.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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