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<p>[QUOTE="cmbdii, post: 4475, member: 655"]Yes there are some good sellers on ebay. There are also hundreds of crooks. Here's a feedback tool which will help with power sellers who do dozens of deals a day and whose negatives maye be time consuming to find in the feedback files:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://auctiononlinedirectory.com/cgi-bin/negs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://auctiononlinedirectory.com/cgi-bin/negs" rel="nofollow">http://auctiononlinedirectory.com/cgi-bin/negs</a></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> This search site will show you only the negatives and neutrals a seller got or just the negs he left for buyers. It's a big help because you can count how many "lost in the mail" complaints there are and how many times the seller says "well you should have insured it".</p><p><br /></p><p> One seller had 15 complaints, all on uninsured coin shipments, just a coincidence I'm sure. ;-) It looked as though that seller waited for a buyer to decline insurance so he could claim he sent the coin when he didn't.</p><p><br /></p><p> I know there are some good sellers on ebay. I also know about the crooks and the amateurs who think that refunding your purchase price less their fees is a good deal when you've paid shipping and insurance both ways after getting a coin with a hole drilled in the edge which they thought wasn't worth mentioning in the description. </p><p><br /></p><p> Ebay is risky for the collector with limited funds whose whole coin buying budget for the week or month can be stolen from him by an unscrupulous seller and ebay will do diddly about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmbdii, post: 4475, member: 655"]Yes there are some good sellers on ebay. There are also hundreds of crooks. Here's a feedback tool which will help with power sellers who do dozens of deals a day and whose negatives maye be time consuming to find in the feedback files: [url]http://auctiononlinedirectory.com/cgi-bin/negs[/url] This search site will show you only the negatives and neutrals a seller got or just the negs he left for buyers. It's a big help because you can count how many "lost in the mail" complaints there are and how many times the seller says "well you should have insured it". One seller had 15 complaints, all on uninsured coin shipments, just a coincidence I'm sure. ;-) It looked as though that seller waited for a buyer to decline insurance so he could claim he sent the coin when he didn't. I know there are some good sellers on ebay. I also know about the crooks and the amateurs who think that refunding your purchase price less their fees is a good deal when you've paid shipping and insurance both ways after getting a coin with a hole drilled in the edge which they thought wasn't worth mentioning in the description. Ebay is risky for the collector with limited funds whose whole coin buying budget for the week or month can be stolen from him by an unscrupulous seller and ebay will do diddly about it.[/QUOTE]
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