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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5372914, member: 19463&quot;]This is not important here.&nbsp; The seller can choose not to handle any coin under a certain price and many fine gentlemen use this business model.&nbsp; However when they advertise an item for a certain price whether as a loss leader or in error they should be expected to go through with the sale.&nbsp; Typographical errors can be corrected but &#039;I should have asked more&#039; after the sale should not.&nbsp; When they accept the payment and then decide they can do better they show contempt for not only that buyer but for fair business practices as a whole and need to be dealt with by those who have the overall respect for the hobby in mind.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is quite true but considering the amount in question is $7 rather than a misplaced decimal point the correct answer is to honor your mistake and learn to be more careful next time.&nbsp; This reminds me of eBay sellers who list coins for a $1 start to draw bids and then complain when no one wants the thing for $100.&nbsp; It was their idea to be ridiculous.&nbsp; Sorry it did not work out.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When VCoins was new, I thought it was the greatest thing to happen to the hobby.&nbsp; Dealers were vetted and people that did not belong were not allowed to be VCoins dealers.&nbsp; Since then the name has been sold and the management changed more than once.&nbsp; In the &#039;middle period&#039; I had a friend who was a VCoins dealer who received notes from management instructing the delisting of fake coins that were offered in ignorance.&nbsp; While this dealer really did not measure up to original standards (due to lack of education but not for lack of honesty), the system then was making an effort to maintain standards.&nbsp; Later, through a series of management changes, it seemed that anything was acceptable.&nbsp; Today, I rarely look at VCoins and do not consider that label of any value to me.&nbsp; Each seller is good or bad on their own merits just like it is with eBay.&nbsp; I do not hold being a VCoins seller against an unknown member but I no longer assume that a new, unknown, member is someone to be trusted either to know more than I do or trusted not to be selling altered, misidentified or fake coins.&nbsp; I do not know the legal considerations involved in policing the activities and abilities of member dealers so it might not be possible to follow the original model.&nbsp; All I know is that I miss the 1998, original, version. </p><p><br /></p><p>Disclaimer:&nbsp; I have not kept up with any changes that have been made recently that may have improved the label in recent years.&nbsp; When trust is lost, it takes a long time to be regained to the point that one wants to visit regularly and assume all the sellers are people with whom we want to do business.&nbsp; The idea of rating and review might help but I doubt it would be any better than the eBay ratings unless it were policed severely by management.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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