Was this 93-CC a good deal or a rip-off?

How can you prove that you didn't received the $20 gold piece?

 

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My inability to answer that question is one of the reasons that I was so reluctant to resume selling on eBay again.

Why doesn't the whole system fall apart? I imagine eBay considers the history of buyers and sellers. If I've made the same sort of complaint about my last five purchases, and it was the first such complaint for each of the sellers, eBay is likely to doubt me. If I have a history of buying high-value items that aren't bogus, and the seller has a history of, say, selling bottle caps from 2003 to 2013, then no activity for two years, then suddenly listing sets of five one-ounce AGEs -- well, in that case, it looks rather bad for the "seller".

In the paperweight case, it was a new seller. I'll bid on such auctions; everyone has to start somewhere, and again, Buyer Protection has my back. But I will say that new sellers, in my experience, are more likely to be scammers, especially if they're selling a high-value item.

 

Um...am I the only one that saw this coming from a mile away? It is a Chinese rip-off!!! If it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, and it smells like a duck...then guess what????

 

Hmmm, still no feedback from the buyer.