Ebay Purchase-I'm Crossing My Fingers!

Now that is an opinion and may or may not be true.
I thought his comments about you were funny since he complained about what you said and ignored me completely and I agreed with you and added more.
I feel left out from his scorning. Makes me feel ignored.

maybe it just takes 7,000 posts to be one of the cool kids on the block around here
I figured I didn't need to point you out too, but I just thought there were easier ways to go about telling someone something.
this is supposed to be a learning site
I guess you guys are people who teach by yelling instead of teach by showing and telling and gaining understanding
oh well. No hard feelings you guys have helped me out a ton, I just think the sarcasm and way you guys say some things might turn some people off who are just trying to understand
Good times
anyways back to people talking about the post
:)

googoo,

when someone titles their post " ebay purchase- I'm crossing my fingers!", many of those posts end badly when the buyer finds out the coin is fake/altered. I am not saying this one will end that way, but I have seen dozens of posts with a bad outcome. You may call me cynical but I call it being realistic.


That "good deal" will look like a bad deal in a hurry when a buyer finds out it is a 32P with an added D mintmark. Buying raw key date coins on ebay is very much a crapshoot if you are not well-versed in authentication and identifying diagnostics.

Based on the title of the post, I assume that the OP falls into that group of less-experienced collectors. It was also made clear that the OP has a good friend at a coin shop which is a relationship that should not be ignored. If you have a trusted shop, your chances of getting a bum coin are almost nil and paying a little extra for a coin that is guaranteed to be genuine can save you alot of hassle in the long run. Sure, it is assuring to get the opinion of the shop after the coin is purchased on ebay but one must learn that you cannot use a coin shop as your own personal ebay coin authentication service. That is a sure-fire way to anger a shop owner over time as they have nothing to gain since they are continually examining coins that they did not make any money on. Repeated behavior like that can and will get you banned from a shop and a collector will be worse off in the long run.


I would never phrase a statement that way because I feel confident enough in my skills that I could could buy the right raw 1932D or S from ebay. However, my skills do not apply to anyone else, especially an inexperienced collector, so a statement must be geared towards that inexperience. I would always recommend that an inexperienced collector pay a visit to their local trusted shop first before dropping upwards of $100 or more on ebay.


You are reading way too much into posts, there has been nothing mean posted here at all. Trust me when I say this with all sincerity, this is probably the friendliest coin forum around. If you want to see mean, hang out at the PCGS Collectors Universe forum for a while and you will soon learn the true meaning of "getting flamed". That place is literally a shark tank where newbies dare not tread.

Many posters speak from experience and that experience includes seeing many new collectors getting burned over the years and they come here posting about their bad purchases. What you see as "yelling" is merely attempts to help newbies avoid the pitfalls of a hobby with a very steep and financially dangerous learning curve. However, we are also not here to hold your hand and mollycoddle you. We want people to learn and gain experience but occasionally someone comes by who has no interest in learning so they keep repeatedly asking the same questions over and over, a sure sign of informational abuse, for the sole purpose of their own financial gain. I thoroughly enjoy educating people that truly want to learn but I do not really have much use for the other type.

Obviously, I feel that you are in the group that wants to learn otherwise I would not have just spent 45 minutes typing War and Peace here My advise to you googoo is to lighten up a little and not take little bits of electrons so seriously, you cannot read someone's emotions on a forum so you have to take the emotional aspect out of it and just enjoy yourself and soak up the knowledge

I hope this works.

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Sell one like this 1932D Washington quarter Dollar Key Date

Item condition: Circulated

Ended: Oct 12, 201120:13:27 PDT

Bid history: 17 bids


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gcpd35,

You have nothing to apologize for at all
When you are creating a post, look above the text box and you will see eBay Tools- the hammer icon creates a link using the Item Number from the auction which you just paste in the middle of the brackets. The results will look like this- [eBayItem]250905340326[/eBayItem] which is now a direct link to the auction.

After viewing the coin, it does appear to be genuine but I can see that it has been harshly cleaned and possibly suffers from corrosion or staining on the reverse. The harsh cleaning is evidenced by the fine parallel scratches(hairlines) on the obverse running from about 11-5, it was probably scrubbed to remove the source of the blackness. Sorry, I wish I had better news for you

Holy cow! I think I have one of these! If I do I'll be certain to post pics..I wasn't aware they was so "valuable"!

WELL PUT Biokemist6.
I have only been on this site for a short time and I have never seen any "mean" comments.
I enjoy this site because I like the flow of knowlage and ideas that are expressed by its members.
If anyone wants to be "mean" direct it to me.
I have a thick skin and I will get over it

Your coin is coming out of Downey, CA. That place is only slightly safer than Compton. I don't know what would surprise me more...that someone from Downey had a 32-D...or that someone in Downey would want to fake a 32-D