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Message:: [QUOTE="Hobo, post: 373739, member: 11521"]My two cents - I think the use of the word "stolen" in this case is inappropriate. As you stated in your original post the seller made a simple mistake and sent the wrong coins to the two buyers.    How do we know the other buyer knows he received a much better (and more valuable) coin than the one he bid on? For all we know he was simply looking for an "old coin" and does not know the difference between these two coins. (I certainly don't.) Then again maybe the other buyer does know he got a much better coin than he bargained for. Ethically (and even perhaps legally) he should return it to the seller but getting him to do so is easier said than done.  So what is the seller's obligation to you in this case? In my opinion he should either 1) send you the coin you bought in the auction if he can get it back from the other buyer OR 2) refund you money. I do not think he owes you another coin of similar value or the difference in price between the coins. You almost got a bargain but the seller is under no obligation to give you the gain that slipped through your fingers (unless, of course, he gets the coin back from the other seller in which case he is obliged to complete the transaction by sending it to you). I sympathize with you because I have had the same thing happen to me. But I am less sympathetic when you are bantering around the word "stolen". The coin was not "stolen". Sorry.[/QUOTE]