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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3797403, member: 83845&quot;]I do not think asking for a refund in the case that I have stated above is inappropriate in the least.&nbsp; That is not to say that I believe that the auction house was dishonest or intentionally misleading when they sold me this coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know the circumstances. Unless their response to me on this issue is rude or dismissive I have absolutely no ill feelings toward them and will buy from them again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on the photos I took soon after I received the coin, I think that the coin had begun to suffer from bronze disease <i>BEFORE</i> I took ownership of it.&nbsp; This is really the heart of the matter for me. If I had no way to show that the coin was showing signs of BD when I got it (such as if I had waited to photograph it till now) I would not even consider returning it an option.&nbsp; As such my photo&#039;s metadata shows exactly when it was starting to show signs (that I admittedly didn&#039;t recognize at the time).&nbsp; A seller or dealer hiding behind a boiler plate &quot;not my problem&quot; clause in a case like this is a level of buyer beware that frankly seems unreasonable to me... why would anyone ever buy bronze from them again!</p><p><br /></p><p>The sale terms do indeed give a (very short) time limit on returns which are obviously past in this case but are also far too short to note an incremental condition like BD.&nbsp; The return clause is reasonable if it is meant to protect the auction house from late onset buyers remorse but crosses into unreasonable if used to shield it from working with repeat customers to solve a legitimate issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, would the auction house or dealer refuse to refund a coin that they thought was problem free but was later shown to have been tooled or altered? Some might.&nbsp; The ones who would refund are the ones I would buy from again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of me hopes the auction house will offer to have it treated for me or if not to allow me to return it if I fail in my effort to treat it myself.&nbsp; To lose the coin and the money I spent on it would be insult to injury![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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