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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5373580, member: 110350&quot;]I take it you haven&#039;t heard yet from Time Machine or from VCoins itself? The longer the silence from the dealer continues, the less willing I would be to accept any excuse that it was all some sort of terrible, inadvertent mistake. (Although I&#039;d be curious to hear how relisting at a higher price the very same coin he told you was sold could have been inadvertent!)</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as VCoins itself is concerned, I would never make any sort of blanket condemnation of them. After all, out of the 17 dealers from whom I purchased three or more coins in 2020, listed in another thread, 13 of them are on VCoins, and I&#039;ve never had any issues with any of them. (Of those 13, there are two whose coins&nbsp; I usually purchase elsewhere: I buy from Marc Breitsprecher at his&nbsp; website -- it costs about $10 or $15 less per coin, and I trust him to refund any coin that hypothetically turns out not to be authentic, even without the VCoins guarantee -- and I&#039;ve bought just as often from Kirk Davis through his old-fashioned mail catalog as from his VCoins site, which has fewer coins.&nbsp; By the way, as soon as I buy from Marc at his website, the coin shows up as &quot;sold&quot; on VCoins. So I assume there must be a way of coordinating things so that happens automatically.)</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I would never assume that just because a dealer is on VCoins his or her coins are necessarily authentic. Nor would I expect VCoins to proactively police the authenticity of the tens of thousands of coins on sale through that platform at any given time.&nbsp; (After all, most of us are familiar with the two ancient coin dealers on VCoins -- see the old &quot;A to Z&quot; thread -- who are rather notorious not for selling fakes, but for selling genuine coins to which they&#039;ve applied artificial &quot;desert patina&quot; and other kinds of artificial toning, such as the alarming blue tone often applied to silver coins by one of them.) The important things to me are (1) the incredible convenience of having so many ancient coin dealers all on one platform, with their coins collectively searchable; and (2) the VCoins-imposed money back guarantee if a coin does turn out to be fake. Including a fourree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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