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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2386559, member: 71510&quot;]Nice thing about Ebay and gambling on these is that for once - the buyer protection is on your side.&nbsp; As a buyer and seller I&#039;ve felt both sides, and I&#039;ve even been burned by it as a seller - being taken advantage of (junk returned instead of original - my stupidity let it happen).</p><p><br /></p><p>I encourage gambling - and royally reaming the deceptive sellers with the Ebay buyer protection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did it last year with a 1912-S nickel listing.&nbsp; I was pretty sure it was a D, seller insisted in the ad it was an S.&nbsp; Pictures were blurry and I requested more pictures.&nbsp; Received excuses about why he couldn&#039;t get me more pictures (coin at his uncle&#039;s house - blah blah blah) and figured it was a ruse.&nbsp; Then he started in on a long story about how he didn&#039;t want to clean it and see under the gunk with the mint mark and he (although knew nothing about coins) suspected it would grade VF.&nbsp; It all smelled like 3 week old fish.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided to make an example of him, got the coin - it was a 1912-D as I suspected.&nbsp; I immediately filed SNAD, took pictures to send him and made a stink of it - hopefully deterring him from trying the stunt again.</p><p><br /></p><p>He took what was a fair $10 sale for an honest coin and tried to spin it with lies.&nbsp; He decided to let me keep the coin and refunded my money.&nbsp; He also got bad feedback which he&#039;s actually written asking me to remove - stating that I bought a dime from him and was unjust in my feedback.</p><p><br /></p><p>I say gamble - cautiously.&nbsp; If it&#039;s too good to be true, it usually is.&nbsp; If there&#039;s a chance - take it and use Ebay&#039;s policy to help clean up the deceptive sellers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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