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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3116887, member: 19463&quot;]Many dealers sell at shows, sell on eBay, VCoins and on their own site.&nbsp; This only becomes a problem when they neglect to keep each venue updated with sales from the others.&nbsp; I see no solution when you go on VCoins and buy a coin that the dealer has carried to a show.&nbsp; VCoins software will charge your PayPal for the coin when I bought it in person five minutes earlier (or later) but give you a message that the coin is yours after it is in my pocket.&nbsp; Few dealers will be checking for an e-sale during a show.&nbsp; Should they?&nbsp; Similarly, two buyers could be buying online through two venues at exactly the same time leaving the seller with a decision of who to disappoint.&nbsp; The only answer would be to require dealers to have different stocks for each venue so eBay customers would not see show stock coins or VCoins listings but most of us would rather see all the coins a seller has in one place.&nbsp; Big sellers do this. Auctioneers may have auction lots at a show but should not be selling them after the sale has been published.&nbsp; Do they?&nbsp; What if you offer several time what a coin is worth?&nbsp; What if no bids have been received up to that time?&nbsp; What if the buyer is a customer who spent $2 million on their sales last year?&nbsp; Too many questions!</p><p><br /></p><p>Technology causes can&#039;t win situations but we had the same problems in the old days.&nbsp; I once bought a coin by long distance phone from an employee of a major seller who instructed me to send my check (long before we did PayPal or Credit Cards).&nbsp; My check came back in a week with an apology that the boss had sold the coin to what I knew to be a bigger customer after the employee had taken my call but before he knew of the sale.&nbsp; A week after that, I got the coin and a request to send back the check.&nbsp; When the bigger customer heard the story, he asked them to correct the situation.&nbsp;&nbsp; I still patronize the seller and that customer.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Internet has changed things that used to take a week into things that take a second but people still have to input changes or conflicts will happen that could have been avoided.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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