Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="dayriser, post: 900878, member: 21610"]Well, I can't defend the use of the terms you quote, but I would say not to swear off ungraded all together... Some of the items I buy are coins that even if they graded ms-60+, it would be hard to recoup the cost of grading... They are valuable to me, but will likely never carry the cost of grading... Others, I pick up as part of a collection, and I don't want the hassle or risk of getting a body-bagged coin, so I try to give as accurate a description I can of a coin, and give the best photos I can... My general rule of thumb is to try to estimate the grade as best I can from my own experience and then subtract a grade from that for some cushion... I have never gotten a coin back for OVER-selling it...  My experience has been that someone that goes to THAT much trouble to upsell a coin, though, is probably not being 100% honest... Reminds me of the posts in the past of the guy that finds a new cache buried in an Egyptian tomb, or under grandmas doghouse about once a week... Always baffled how the same seller can sell 1909-s vdb's while simultaneously selling all of his UNSEARCHED rolls of wheat pennies... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />   One final note... Isn't it against ebay policy to quote a value in the description?  I.E. "The wholesale value of this coin is $7000"...?[/QUOTE]