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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3988208, member: 46237"]Building the cost of shipping into the purchase price is irrelevant when you have to refund the purchase price. Especially bad when you deal in world coins and most of your buyers are overseas!</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm glad to hear you have been so lucky as a seller, but do not mistake that for the norm. There are literally tons of great honest sellers on eBay that protect themselves by not offering returns for the reasons I stated. My point is that it is not and should not be a red flag to someone in and of itself. Make intelligent purchases and ask questions up front.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a buyer, I have returned very few coins on eBay. Probably no more than 4 or 5 coins, and I have used eBay since its inception. Most of the time I take a risk, it is on something cheap that wouldn't be worth returning, or I am paying a price that I would consider fair, even for a details coin. For everything else, I either know what I'm getting or I don't bid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3988208, member: 46237"]Building the cost of shipping into the purchase price is irrelevant when you have to refund the purchase price. Especially bad when you deal in world coins and most of your buyers are overseas! I'm glad to hear you have been so lucky as a seller, but do not mistake that for the norm. There are literally tons of great honest sellers on eBay that protect themselves by not offering returns for the reasons I stated. My point is that it is not and should not be a red flag to someone in and of itself. Make intelligent purchases and ask questions up front. As a buyer, I have returned very few coins on eBay. Probably no more than 4 or 5 coins, and I have used eBay since its inception. Most of the time I take a risk, it is on something cheap that wouldn't be worth returning, or I am paying a price that I would consider fair, even for a details coin. For everything else, I either know what I'm getting or I don't bid.[/QUOTE]
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