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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bsowa1029, post: 1862346, member: 34652&quot;]There is a coin on eBay I saw this past Monday that interested me. It&#039;s a week long auction that is ending tomorrow. I didn&#039;t feel like waiting a week for it to end or having to bid against anyone else for it. So before anyone bid on it I sent the seller this message:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Would you do a buy it now for this coin for $25?</p><p>I would pay immediately.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the reply:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Thanks for the offer. But with this amazing toning we think it will sell for more.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From the pictures I would call the toning interesting, not amazing. There&#039;s a lot of dark gray covering the coin. Anyways, this was my response:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I was actually wondering about the toning.</p><p>How does it compare in hand to what the pictures show?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I received this reply:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Looks great in hand. We may end auction and send to NGC haven&#039;t decided yet.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I received that last reply, which was the end of our interaction, I put in a bid on the coin. That bid wasn&#039;t going to be my final bid, I planned on winning the auction and putting in a stronger max bid near the end of the auction. When I saw that reply my immediate thought was &#039;oh great if this doesn&#039;t sell for what they want they&#039;re just going to cancel the sale.&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I made my bid that Monday, up through tonight, there have only been two other bids. The highest one being in the $5 range. There haven&#039;t been any other bids for the past couple of days until tonight; I was outbid. When I saw that I was outbid I checked the bidder to see how much feedback they have and I saw that they have zero feedback.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally think that the seller of the coin made another account to put in some outrageous max bid as a way to set a reserve for the coin. I just find it strange that some one with ZERO feedback decides the first thing they want to buy on eBay happens to be this coin I&#039;m interested in which has a seller who seems kind of hopeful for a certain final selling price. It&#039;s nearing the end of the auction and there hasn&#039;t been much action on the coin, I think the seller was getting nervous and just wanted to cover themselves, in a shady way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just wanted to share my suspicions and see what you all think about the whole situation.</p><p>Do you think it is possible that this could be the seller bidding on another account or am I just being paranoid?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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