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Quote:I messaged the guy and asked...poor guy got stung with $500 ebay fee for ending the listing. Did he say why he ended the listing? I suppose it is better to lose $500 than to lose $100,000. Edited by MoneyPenney
12/15/2016 01:47 am
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ouch, I didn't know they hit you with that kind of fee for cancelling an auction. It would be interesting if he could reinstate the auction instead of paying the fee? But he might be better off just paying and moving on, given the sentiment on the board relative to expected prices.
It's a good thing the auction was not above 20k, a 10% fee would be getting ridiculous.
Edited by purelywasted
12/15/2016 01:52 am
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After looking into it a bit, he's not some bloke trying to dump a collection because of hard times. He's most likely a dealer in coins and collectibles and possibly jewelry.
With a quick search I couldn't find the person but I was suspicious of the poor English on the listing and that the seller has listings shipping from different locations (albeit very close to one another). Those are turn-offs for me as a buyer.
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He mentioned in the listing that he speaks French too, and some words in his listing had French accent by accident..also I messaged with him a bit, I think he is french Canadian and English is his second language.
Feel free to call me Will.
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he has listed a bunch of singles, some nice halfs as well.
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Not seeing many quick sales there, but I now understand where the $110k came from.
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Not a chance he's even going to sell them individually at those prices (about 75% of trends).
Especially without an option to 'make an offer'
Also, looks like he probably had his entire collection very recently graded by ICCS.
Big cost there too, as most of his certs have the three letter designation and a lot of these have 'XHD' which were done in Sept. 2016.
I hope his coin knowledge is better than his marketing knowledge.
Edited by doubleeagle59
12/15/2016 08:34 am
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Quote:poor guy got stung with $500 ebay fee for ending the listing No he didn't. He ended it early with no winner. |
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I am now leery about this dealer. If you are going to post something and let it go for as long as it did, and then remove it in order to relist as separate coins... I mean, I was genuinely interested in the lot, and was going into it with another person, but now I don't even want to buy a single coin. I feel like that was a waste of all of our time whomever was bidding, and a very shady way of publicizing the estate
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At any rate, the individual listings of graded coins are about 2/3 of trends, which seems reasonable.
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Oriole...
2/3 of trends in today's market is at the very, very TOP of 'reasonable'.
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BTW I was the highest bidder on that lot with a max bid of CAN$4,800. I didn't actually think that I was going to win, nor that he would actually deliver the entire collection if I did.
You ask- why then was I bidding. FOMO and a cheap way of giving myself a right to dream.
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i was going in on a small part with Apitrix...somewhat disappointed in all honesty but I can't blame him, if you have tens of thousands of dollars in coins for sale and a day or so to go and it's only at a few thousand..
sniping and major raises of bids would happen near the end but it still would've been far off what he wants.
Feel free to call me Will.
Edited by thedollarman
12/15/2016 10:12 am
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Pillar of the Community
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If the seller was looking for a better price than they received by ending the auction early then they should have set a buy it now price on what they were looking for and a higher start price.
Scammer in my eyes someone I wouldn't trust even if I was high bidder
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BTW I was the highest bidder on that lot with a max bid of CAN$4,800. SO he's going to get billed a $480 early termination fee by ebay. What a doofus he was! CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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