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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3116614, member: 75937&quot;]I&#039;m sorry that happened, [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] . Alfred at Agora isn&#039;t very organized. I still have a bad taste in my mouth after I won this coin at Agora&#039;s December 20, 2016 sale:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]792116[/ATTACH] </p><p>I paid him immediately after I received an electronic invoice. When no shipping notification came, I sent him three e-mails asking about it, and he ignored every one of them. THREE WEEKS later, he sent an e-mail asking that I pay him for the coin. I called him, urging him to check his records and he did and admitted that I had, in fact, paid him and that for some reason I was listed as delinquent on the account. He did mail it, but it was a month before the coin arrived in the mail. </p><p><br /></p><p>After I had the coin in my possession, I saw it listed at Sergey Nechayev&#039;s V-Coins store and ostensibly STILL FOR SALE. See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-i-received-from-agora-up-for-sale-at-v-coins.290483/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-i-received-from-agora-up-for-sale-at-v-coins.290483/">this thread</a> about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have the sneaking suspicion (though I can&#039;t prove it) that Alfred sold the coin on behalf of Sergei but never actually had it in his possession. He finally got it from Sergei after I inquired about it over and over and then mailed it. I wonder what he&#039;d have done if someone had purchased it from Sergei&#039;s V-coins store (where it was still for sale) in the interrim.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect something like that happened to [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] . Alfred may have listed it on behalf of a dealer who sold it at some other venue (v-coins? a show?) in the meantime; hence, it was &quot;sold&quot; and unavailable to Bing, even though he was the high bidder at the auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t comment on the ethics of this sort of arrangement, but I haven&#039;t participated in an Agora auction since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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