Vcoins Change In Default Settings

Yep, I followed some of the posts about this at another forum this morning. Dirty.

This practice can now be added to (1) the management's turning a blind eye to numerous customer complaints about the continuing, very obvious coating of bronze coins (and even bronze artifacts) with fake sand patinas, an obsessive practice indulged in by a notorious few dealers there, and (2) a slew of very dubious artifacts posted in the past year by one of the coin coaters and a couple other stores there. There seems to be very little, if any, oversight where antiquities are concerned, imo.

FVRIVS RVFVS recently commented in another thread about the essential meaningless of COA's. While VCoins can of course do whatever they want with their site, what makes this (the default to $25 and above) especially disturbing and hypocritical is the pretense of the VCoins' Code of Ethics, which is basically on par with certificates of authenticity.

Is the rather surreptitious setting of the default by VCoins management consistent with the Code they themselves established - a code that includes the following?:

"I will conduct my business in a professional and ethical manner"

"I will operate in a fair and honorable manner"

They may of headed to some complaints.

On their Applied Filters they have a Over $25 with a ?. When you hover over the ? it will say "Based on demand, we have modified our search results to not show items under $25 ... If you would like to view the items, please remove the filter". You can easily X out the filter.

I wonder who made that demand. The high-price powersellers?

I was occasionally considering doing some purchases on VCoins, but I guess that's effectively impossible now - anything over $25 is way beyond my budget (I'm willing to make an exception for something with over $25 worth of precious metal, but I doubt that something like that will ever show up on VCoins with a price under, say, $60, which would be definitely over my budget either way).