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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1087639, member: 19065"]What you would do and what these kinds of sellers are doing are two different things. There is no excuse for the sellers deception nor if the seller claimed any ignorance in the matter, there are plenty of reference tools available online to identify the coins by their compositions as well as coin and PM content calculation web sites to accurately determine what the seller has for sale. The same can be said of buyers, no one can simply claim ignorance in this matter, not when the same tools they are using to make the transaction, the internet, also connects them to a wealth of information with which to inform themselves. There is no reason to assume anything taking the risk and dealing with another miserable situation between lazy incompetent people trying to nickel and dime one another, from either side of the transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>One way to resolve such listings would be for eBay to include a tool like coinflation.com, allowing sellers to input the number and type of coins they wish to sell in the listing. If a seller could offer actual coin weight from a scale, that would create a more complete listing. There really isn't any need for a photo at all if buying for investment or if listed as junk-silver, especially a photo that is not disclaimed to be for illustrative purpose only. Any such photo as we saw in the OPs example needs to alert buyers not to perceive this as the item(s) they will receive. It is essentially how people buy bulk junk silver from bullion dealers without incident.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1087639, member: 19065"]What you would do and what these kinds of sellers are doing are two different things. There is no excuse for the sellers deception nor if the seller claimed any ignorance in the matter, there are plenty of reference tools available online to identify the coins by their compositions as well as coin and PM content calculation web sites to accurately determine what the seller has for sale. The same can be said of buyers, no one can simply claim ignorance in this matter, not when the same tools they are using to make the transaction, the internet, also connects them to a wealth of information with which to inform themselves. There is no reason to assume anything taking the risk and dealing with another miserable situation between lazy incompetent people trying to nickel and dime one another, from either side of the transaction. One way to resolve such listings would be for eBay to include a tool like coinflation.com, allowing sellers to input the number and type of coins they wish to sell in the listing. If a seller could offer actual coin weight from a scale, that would create a more complete listing. There really isn't any need for a photo at all if buying for investment or if listed as junk-silver, especially a photo that is not disclaimed to be for illustrative purpose only. Any such photo as we saw in the OPs example needs to alert buyers not to perceive this as the item(s) they will receive. It is essentially how people buy bulk junk silver from bullion dealers without incident.[/QUOTE]
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