Ebay Battle...

Good to hear.

How much could the refund possibly have been. Was it worth the time and effort? Not trying to be mean but it seems like just a block the seller event and move on.

With that said, if they are different, he used a coin with a stain/toning spot in the same place (to the left of the date) to further the "same coin" argument. So, IF they are different he premeditated it as an argument for same coin if he was caught. Did he use this stain/toning location in his email argument with you?

Not the same coin in all photos.

Cascade when I buy a coin I expect to get the coin I bought, plain and simple. It's the principle of the thing. I don't care what I paid for it. It didn't matter how many points of identification I showed him he insisted it was the same. Clearly not.

He wasn't willing to pay for return postage so if I had returned it I would've been out that too and no coin.

Thanks Cascade, I appreciate it. He got his hackles up and I cranked up the backhoe lol. He's actually a nice guy but just couldn't see the difference between the three pics no matter how many identifiers I showed him. We're good now.

KenKat says all that needs to be said, but I'll add this: I think a lot of people, myself included, feel bad about inconveniencing a vendor by returning a coin, and therefore we may do more than we should to "justify" the return. Note that the dispute described here related to the buyer saying the seller did something wrong and the seller saying he didn't. That problem is avoided by that nice little ebay option: "Changed my mind." I'm not sure, but I think the vendors actually prefer when the buyer uses that option, because it does not record as something negative on the part of the vendor. I will not buy from a vendor who does not accept returns. I try really hard not to take advantage of the return option, but the fact is that even the best photographs do not tell you exactly what the coin looks like "in real life." If it does not match the photo, send it back without feeling a need to explain. If any vendors read this and I'm saying something wrong, I'm open to correction.

So I just looked again and know what happened. Last week they had a multi coin auction for 2 quarters and only one sold. Looks like he relisted the unsold one with pictures of both coins. So technically, you're both right and both wrong. He did send you the coin in the picture, but at the same time you didn't receive the pictured coin. Given that he knew the backstory and you he should accept the return and pay shipping. Putting pix of the wrong item, even if unintentional, is technically "not as described".