Random eBay Things

#1: This week's award for innovations in packaging:




#2: Celebrating a random purchase:






#3: I couldn't give you a good excuse for this other than it is kind of fun to have some random ridiculous slabs.

 

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#1 isn't too bad. At least they were in holders.
Some put packaging tape directly over the coins.

 

Wow nice package of coins!

 

This coin is so polished that you can almost make out the guy taking the picture.
It is currently advertised on eBay as 'Brilliant Uncirculated'.

 

This guy sold me a Whitman album with an IHC scotch taped into the slot, completely covering the coin. I asked why and he said because it didn't fit and would fall out. That's true, but taping is actually worse than it not being there at all. Because now you can't even see the coins obverse.

And when I untaped it it tore the album surface AND of course had all kinds of green corroded goo on the obverse of the coin from the tape. SMH

 

Could be worse. Go google "naked guy selling tea pot on ebay"

 

Yep. Had the packaging tape right over some collector coins before...

But the "pièce de résistance" was when some guy took a sharpie and marked the faces of the coins I purchased from him on eBay with his personal catalogue numbers!

His response to my outraged inquiry on the matter went something like: 'well, howduhfugg am I sposed ta keep track a dis stuff?!'

Try to beat that.

 

Beat your story or give that man a beating?
The former, I cannot, the latter, I am willing.

 

Here's another random eBay thing.

A PCGS "True View" with the obverse of the coin displayed UPSIDE DOWN!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-South...256064?hash=item33f638e5c0:g:1NQAAOSw95BbtTRa

Oh, and the coin is definitely NOT worth $45 bucks!

 

I've had two orders canceled in two days.
I guess I'm not getting the AACGS slab now.

 

I'm curious about cancelling orders. After having bought and sold on ebay since 1999, I have never had an order cancelled... until yesterday. It was a Buy It Now that I had already paid for; the seller refunded my money about two hours after my BIN transaction with NO explanation.

 

Sellers list stuff multiple places. He probably sold it on Craigslist or something and forgot to remove his eBay listing.

 

I have maybe 1 in 15 orders cancelled.
Never had a problem with refunds.

 

That's a lot! Maybe you have a knack for seeking out the sellers who'll renege by cancelling.

 

Seller probably underestimated the cost of the flat-bed truck required to deliver that ginormous slab.

 

The plastic, for recycling, is worth more than the coin.

 

Someone in my local coin club has a beautiful album of Morgan Dollars. There are a few of them that have tape marks from when his brother told him to tape them in as a kid.

 

I could be wrong but I believe the AACGS slab could be skidded up and shipped through an LTL carrier.

 

Lol- it's brilliant alright - I often get halves like this in my 'junk silver' rolls from APMEX and elsewhere - the more 'brilliant' they are, the less they weigh

 

OP's pic #1 is scary - too many loose & unfettered staples just waiting to scratch a coin