How Does This Guy Have So Few Negs When All He Sells Is Junk

So you're right and almost 11K people are wrong because you don't like the look of his photos?

I wouldn't have gone to the trouble to report him but yes Shadowcreator is right there is several buffed coins.I'm sure there over exposed to try to hide that fact.

My guess would be most people don't feel like its worth the time to contact,mail back,leave negative feedback and probably decide to call it a learning experience.I'm speaking from experience ofcourse.

Just so it's clear to everyone, why exactly are you reporting him?

Good news!

Dear Brian,

Thanks for reporting these listings to us.

I sent your report to our Coin Community Watch group and they agreed
with your assessment of the coins. As a result, I ended the listings.

Again, thank you for your report Brian. We appreciate your help in
keeping ebay a safe and reputable forum to conduct business.

Sincerely,

____
ebay Customer Support

It's not really that I just 'think' they are over-exposed, its extreme. Big difference between slightly off photos and something like that Half Cent that I put up. It's almost on par with sellers like numismaticbureau. Not to mention that I've seen him many times put a corroded piece of trash up and call it choice unc.

Come on seriously though, it was an XF polished and corroded coin and he was calling it GEM BU. Did you see it and the other two? Just because theoretically something can be subjective doesn't mean this guy isn't take it way way too far. I've seen stuff that is polished and over-exposed like that, and I've seen stuff that's normal and over-exposed. The normal stuff just looks cleaned or dipped, or mildly polished maybe if its a PL morgan or something but even then there's a difference. Turn up the exposure on a normal coin, it still doesn't look anything like those photos. I've never seen a coin like this guy's that didn't turn out polished, and I've bought many of them (at a discount of course). I would bet my arm that those coins that I linked are purposefully trying to hide polishing/harsh cleaning from newbie ebayers.

You have a point, though. I've gotten a few listings removed for seemingly inane reasons and I suppose it was because of the same thing. If they're not actually reviewing the listings and just trashing them because of a report, then that's wrong. I've seen the same thing done on big sites like yahoo answers, where if enough people report something it will just automatically ban the person.

Here was report:

"Message: These coins (particularly the first one) are blatantly not as
described; cleaned/polished up and over-graded. This should be obvious to anyone with coin experience. Photos are purposefully and deceitfully
over-exposed at an angle so the seller can claim its 'Unc' so amateur
bidders will bid it up. Only logical conclusion is that seller knows
what he is doing and is trying to rip people off. This seller has a
bunch of other polished junk hes trying to pass off as 'GEM BU' or
whatever and hes been doing this for awhile...he's an embarrassment to
ebay and its especially laughable that hes top-rated...he needs to be
banned or at least disciplined and told to stop putting false
descriptions.

Thanks."

What happened to ShadowCreator?

Take a look at the rim on his AU++/Unc. bust half.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1836-Capped...em3cba65a9d9

Ok, I see some grossly overpriced stuff, and several IHWC, but I also see some nice IHC and LWC. Then again, a bunch of polished xf, but even a polished xf is a nice looking coin.

I would guess those who buy don't know what an unc should look like, or they wouldn't buy in the first place. It's unlikely they get smart in a week or so.