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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 2708581, member: 13307&quot;]My two cents:</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins shown in the photos were not even close to uncirculated, nor in great shape, so the seller either doesn&#039;t know how to properly describe their items or doesn&#039;t care.</p><p><br /></p><p>You did receive the coins in the photos, so the seller did send the right item in a timely manner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seller taped the coins for shipment, which would be an issue if any of the coins would be more valuable based on condition.&nbsp; In their current state, the taping didn&#039;t really devalue your coins in any meaningful way.&nbsp; However, anyone selling coins on a regular basis should know not to tape coins...but then, I&#039;ve seen plenty of local coin shop owners put their big &#039;ol thumbprints on an UNC coin I was trying to buy from them.&nbsp; So, either the seller doesn&#039;t know better or doesn&#039;t care.</p><p><br /></p><p>We can&#039;t see the seller&#039;s full reply to you, so it&#039;s difficult to tell if their response was indifferent, hostile, etc, or if that was merely your reaction to it (which might have been tempered by your annoyance with the taping of the coins.)&nbsp; If it&#039;s like you said, they don&#039;t care.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would personally only give a negative in a situation where someone really deserved it.&nbsp; In this case, I don&#039;t think the seller really went out of their way to be awful...but was ignorant.&nbsp; Long story short, you did receive the coins shown in the seller&#039;s pictures, and you weren&#039;t caused any significant damages to the value of the coins, so I&#039;d leave a positive feedback - but knock them on the DSR (detailed seller ratings) as you see fit.&nbsp; I might also mention the other issues (the taping and rudeness) in the text portion of your feedback.&nbsp; First, I might try contacting the seller to say something to the effect of:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I don&#039;t mean to be a pain, and I have already left you a qualified positive feedback for this purchase, but in the future, applying tape to a coin damages the surface.&nbsp; It would be in your best interests if you plan to continue selling coins to amend this habit before it ruins a valuable coin and you are held accountable for it by another buyer.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, this is all up to you.&nbsp; If you leave a negative, chances are you will be blocked and might not get a chance to bid on other lots from this seller.&nbsp; JMHO.&nbsp; As primarily an eBay seller, when someone approaches me in a calm and reasonable manner, I am much, much more likely to respond in a friendly way.&nbsp; If someone starts right off the bat ranting at me, &quot;yelling&quot; in all caps, or accusing me of tricking them or trying to cheat them...hoo boy...that person is getting exactly what my stated policies state and no more.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was just starting out, I used to put a 2x2 straight into the sticky-backed hobby foam (for protection) - but it ended up sticking to the cardboard 2x2 (of COURSE it did, what was I thinking?)&nbsp; Someone politely notified me of what was happening, and I made an immediate change to that practice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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