What the weirdest eBay email you ever received?

I would have asked city or state?

 

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So I emailed him back (my mistake) and asked if he's denying the post office makes errors. I briefly told him how a mailed a $96 coin to Atlanta last year that made it to the sorting station and then disappeared. He replied, "YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN MAIL IT OR FORGOT TO PUT THE COIN IN THE ENVELOPE! ANYWAY, YOU'RE NOT PERFECT!!!!!!" Before I further invite this psychopath into my realm, I blocked him and decided to never again communicate with this guy. Wow. eBay i.d. is mcarrier for anyone who wishes to follow-suit.

 

mcarrier?

Like "mail carrier"? LOL.

 

Yes, I sent a very friendly note back to the person who asked the question explaining what a doubled die was, how it affected the coins struck, and included a link to a numismatic site with more information.

My point was that if you're a newbie you shouldn't be looking at coins in the $250+ range in esoteric niche collecting arenas. I was happy to offer information about the particular coin, but what I don't understand is why people can't use Google. 90% of the questions I see posted on forums and elsewhere could be answered with a little leg-work and effort on the part of the person asking the question. People are immeasurably lazy when it comes to doing a little research on their own before immediately posting a question or asking a question that makes them look ignorant and helpless.

By the way, it's a doubled die, not a "double" die.

 

Ok! What about this one! That I DECLINED!


Hello, this seems like a good value, but would you accept $ 7 Million ?

He/She is not the Only One that I DECLINED! But He/She is the HIGHEST Offered that I received on my AVATAR coin...

Want to see it? look down here !

:hail::thumb:

 

It only took 25 posts to get to his coin.

 

Haha! But we are all just jealous. Seriously though, being offered $7 million isn't "weird" like my original question asks. Amazing, but not ridiculously weird. Interestingly, they didn't actually make a legitimate "best offer," which makes me wonder if it was real in the first place. Also, that buyer had barely 100 feedbacks. Unless he'd been buying high relief $20 golds or MS 1889 CC Morgan's, I'd doubt it was a real offer. (Still, I've seen your coin before and it is amazing).

 

Don't bother. Some people are delusional.

 

No, no, no! You've seriously misjudged me. I'm not the least bit jealous.

 

I was selling a brass Buddha. Someone from China wanted to buy it.

 

I was selling a Canon DSLR camera. Someone from the seediest part of Chicago wanted me to drop it off at his house so he could try it out for a week before he bought it.

 

I was asked once if I took "Papal payments".

 

If it were me, I would have accepted that offer! I'd make sure the check cleared though.

 

Sorry, but since you were asking 11 million dollars for a coin worth "maybe" 4 grand on a good day, I think the offer was an attempt at humoring you or worse case an attempt at humoring other individuals.

In other words, it was not a serious offer.

 

My weirdest eBay message came from an individual in response to the listing of a 1971-D Friendly Eagle IKE.
I was asking a fairly high price for the coin and this person emailed me claiming that he could see no difference between the coin being offered and a regular ole 1971-D and that I was scamming folks and he was going to report me and my listing.

Some messages are just not worth the effort it requires to respond to as blocking this person was a whole lot easier.

I got a different one which I saved:

"on this listing you say this coin is UNC wich means uncirculated i think im rite and this coin that i see is not UNC i have bin collecting coins for a very long time you should not wright something if its not true because if i win this item and its circulated we have a problem !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks
mike......"

He wasn't "rite" but since he's "bin" collecting for a very long time, I didn't want to have any potential problems so I cancelled his bid and blocked him.

 

OMG we might have a winner, folks!

 

You have to be more specific than that. The "seediest part of Chicago" could refer to city hall, the mayor's office, police HQ, etc.

 

This reminds me of hardcore pawn last night guy was trying to buy a generator and asked if it needed electricity to eork then asjed if he could take it to his house to see if it worked even tho the seller said he could test it in store the buyer git very angry

 

when i was selling coins on ebay i received an email from an ebay member who i had never had any transactions or anything with. they wanted to know if they could meet with me in person at my home to buy some of my coins and pay with cash. i declined the offer.

 

On a BIN Or Best Offer on e-bay, I offered a seller $50 on a $75 item. He counteroffered $74.99 and I then counteroffered $50.01 Strangely enough he did not accept the offer.