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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1512167, member: 15309&quot;]I listed a 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar PCGS MS64 with dramatic rainbow toning for $2,000.&nbsp; After 6 months, I have not gotten any serious offers, just people offering $25-$50 so I dropped the price to $1,000.&nbsp; The coin in the OP does not have monster toning that would drive a significant premium, mine does IMO.&nbsp; But that doesn&#039;t stop others from ridiculing me for listing a common coin with such a high price.&nbsp; Check out this exchange with one of the clowns.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000">Clown:&nbsp; Do you honestly think a little rainbow toning jacks up the price as much as you have things listed???&nbsp; You&#039;ve got rainbows in your head !!&nbsp; Get real. Or maybe you&#039;d like to buy a bunch of rainbow toned coins ??</span></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000FF">Me:&nbsp; Rainbow toned coins are a niche market in numismatics.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t understand why rainbow toned coins sell for a premium, then don&#039;t buy them.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like my prices, then either make an offer or move on.&nbsp; Thank you in advance for not sending me anymore nasty messages with the sole intention of wasting my time and venting your frustration.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000FF"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000">Clown:&nbsp; Haha !!&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe that I&#039;m the one needing to vent frustrations !! I understand the appeal of toned coins. Only a sucker would pay the kind of money you are asking. But like Barnum said........born every minute. Funny though. I can create an oxidation process which will produce exactly the same thing you are trying to sell as authentic. I have even perfected the shadowing effect that most people trying to tone coins have not. I do it FOR people and don&#039;t charge a dime. My conscience wouldn&#039;t allow it. So you see. I have NO problem with frustrations. Obviously,however,you can&#039;t make the same statement !!&nbsp; My response brought out YOUR frustrations. Your response only made me laugh out loud !! By the way, you said make an offer or move on. I&#039;d give you a nickel for the penny. That.s pretty good interest. Your $16,000 coin...35 bucks..That&#039;s even more than silver content. Since the coin isn&#039;t worth any more than silver content, that&#039;s pretty good interest,too...unless of course YOU got burned on them and are trying to recoup YOUR losses !!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">Me:&nbsp; Oh, so you are an expert coin doctor huh, yeah right!&nbsp; BTW, the shadowing effect is called pull away toning.&nbsp; Don&#039;t want you to go around sounding like an idiot.&nbsp; Oops, too late!&nbsp; Congratulations on being an E-Bay troll though.&nbsp; Good way to waste your life I guess.&nbsp; I take your comments to mean that you can&#039;t afford my prices and can only buy coins at melt.&nbsp; Now I understand your obvious frustrations.&nbsp; Furthermore, I don&#039;t have any coins listed at $16,000.&nbsp; I will let you know when I have a sale of face paint.&nbsp; A clown like you would be interested in that! </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #FF0000">Clown:&nbsp; Haha !!&nbsp; I meant $1600 on that Kennedy half. I guess all the years at SilverTowne, I worked there when they still operated out of their basement, have been a waste,eh? Actually I&#039;ve been associated with Lonnie way back to his days at the ..get this now..Rainbow Restaurant !!&nbsp; That&#039;s when he actually got his start...and he married in to our family. Keep your grease paint,you cloud headed clown. You&#039;ll make more money entertaining kiddies at their birthday parties. Incidentally. I used to deliver silver to Englehardt&#039;s in Boston and NY. That was the smelt stuff after the good stuff had been catalogued. Yes,smelt stuff. The kind of stuff you are pawning as &quot;naturally toned&quot; !!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000CD">Me:&nbsp; Never knew clowns were this talkative.&nbsp; Let me know when you are done blowin smoke silver delivery boy!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And for anyone who thinks that I should not treat a customer this way, consider this.&nbsp; After receiving his first message, I added him to my blocked bidder list.&nbsp; Therefore he was no longer a customer when I sent my response.&nbsp; In the end, they are my coins and I can ask whatever price I want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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