Not Sure I Deserved A "Neutral"

Classic example to show that the buyer's only responsibility is not just to pay. They are also responsible for reading the description and understanding what they are buying. This irresponsible buyer is now on my BBL.

I think drop it. But for the future.




Could be viewed as "Full date" to people that cant read the whole auction and see where you said some just enough to make out the date.

I'd say drop it. Guy sounds like a do***er.

Quite the conundrum, isn't it?

In about 13 years of buying and selling on ebay (mostly buying) I've noticed the melting pot of humanity that exists in this country. I've read a ton of feedbacks and after a while it becomes very easy to believe that a lot of people are just stupid. The fact is that a lot of people think only emotionally and not logically or rationally.

I always find in amusing when someone dings a seller because the two dollar item the purchased or won was not in pristine condition, even though the text of the listing and there pictures tell an entirely different story.

It is true that a great number of people simply do not "read" the description, or they read it and it doesn't compute. They look at pictures with a biased eye, assuming what they will be getting will be better than the picture for various reasons.

In your case, the buyer was assuming something not based in reality, or the evidence presented. I would think that the best course of action, if you really wish to have the neutral removed from your feedback total, is to contact this eminently observant buyer and offer a partial refund to satisfy him and ask that he remove the neutral.

And bite hard on that bullet as you do so!

It is unfortunate, but that is the current level of intelligent life on the planet earth.

As far as future listings, here is a lesson learned. In the balance between salesmanship, presentation, and full disclosure, sometimes you have to "just spell it out" to avoid misunderstandings based on more on fanciful beliefs than reality.

"These things are pretty worn down folks. That means some have fully readable dates, and the rest of the coin is worn down pretty good, and others have just enough date showing to tell what year it was, and the indian and the buffalo look like they've been on a diet and lost a lot of weight!"

Sucks, don't it?

I once had a handful of steel cents (about 30 or so) that were pretty bad, from roll searching and such. I wanted to get rid of them. I put them up with the title "Bad Pennies!" The coins were laid out with a good pic and the text was commensurately written in a humorous vein about how bad they were, oxidized, rusted, and so on, and that they just needed someone to give them a good home. I made no bones about how bad they were. I think I got about 50 cents apiece for the lot. I think this was the feedback (hard to tell now but they're all pretty much the same) "Fast shipping..coins as advertised..good eBayer."

Hope this helps,

Steve

I just love the way you describe things weerdsteev.. but I really ought to remember not to be drinking something when I read your posts..!

Yeah...I'd go into the "Reply to feedback" section and write, "Which did you NOT do, read my ad or look closely at the coins?"

I just looked at your listing I understood it just fine.I have bought & sold on E-Bay some people are just unhappy no matter what you do. I would just block him from bidding on your stuff and go on to the next thing.

I think the statement in the description "The dates range from full dates (VG or so) to just enough date to make out what year the coin is" may be a little misleading. Was it one VG and 40 very worn coins? Or a nice mix of VG and worn? The picture is not very clear as to what dates are visible, short of me downloading it and enlarging it with photoshop. With that said, I have seen bids on 30 and 40 coin (common date, some dateless) lots of these go for anywhere from a buck to a buck and half per coin ($30-60/lot), so all in all, I think the buyer got a pretty good deal.

Nothing wrong with description.VG is WORN because is VG.