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What! A 1919-S Buffalo Nickel $1,500,000?

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 Posted 02/23/2011  5:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
Falls into those standard ebay stories like:
Don't know anything about coins but......
These are all UNSEARCHED coins....
Someome left these to me and ....
Got these from an elderly person that found them laying around
And on and on and on.
I wonder if there is book on standard selling stories on ebay?
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 Posted 02/23/2011  6:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bryan1315 to your friends list
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 Posted 02/23/2011  9:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
These listings are right out of the twilight zone. That 1919-S came out of a barn!? $1,500,000 !? Viewing that listing is akin to entering a parallel universe wherein situations take on bizarre proportions. Do, do, do, do ...
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 Posted 02/23/2011  9:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add scubu to your friends list
He's just looking for buyers to make offers. It's a sales tactic that's been used since there's been things to sell. ebay just makes you enter a BIN price so they put a ridiculous one.

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"Hey how much you want for that?"

"I don't know, make me an offer."

Everyone here has used this tactic, this is just the ebay version. No big deal.
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 Posted 02/23/2011  9:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
Oh, I get it, the seller is trying to milk as much as he can from that Buffalo barn coin ... Moocho bucks, huh?
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 Posted 02/23/2011  9:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add scubu to your friends list
Call me crazy, but I try to get top dollar for things I sell too. The guy isn't doing anything wrong. He's just asking for offers, no one is twisting your arm. For criminy's sake, if ebay started pulling your listings if they thought you were asking too much for something, you'd freak.
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 Posted 02/23/2011  10:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add zeewool to your friends list

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He said the collection came out a barn that was being torn down.
A buffalo being kept in a barn?


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The whole body of the buffalo is covered by it.
Maybe the buffalo didn't have enough room in the barn to lie down.... (Kinda sounds like the whole listing is covered by it as well).


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the shape of the protrusion is something close to part of the buffalo
I can only imagine what part of the buffalo that might be.



As far as the Morgan goes:

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For the winning bidder there will be a story to go along with the fact that the money is going to a great cause.
I would love to hear that story.

These are classic listings.... I just love this sorta stuff.... what a boring world it would be without smiles.....
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 Posted 02/24/2011  12:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bryan1234 to your friends list
you know there asking for monopoly money right, I got enough to buy everything if I pass go a few times ;)
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 Posted 02/24/2011  08:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nod2003 to your friends list
Not if you land on my hotels on the orange row bryan.
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 Posted 02/24/2011  2:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list
uncirculated? how about "shot through the ugly tree, hit every branch"?
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 Posted 02/24/2011  2:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list
What amazes me is that we see sellers like this with 100% FB on hundreds of items. Guess it's pretty hard to screw up a proof.
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 Posted 02/24/2011  8:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinstar to your friends list
even my daughter said "Looks like dirt-- LOL"
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 Posted 02/24/2011  9:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add specksynder to your friends list
sweet!! free shipping!
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 Posted 02/25/2011  10:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lukkyseven to your friends list
This guy refused my offer :(. I offered him double face value!! Clearly a premium for the coin... what a shame.
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 Posted 02/25/2011  11:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add upstate to your friends list

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Clearly a premium for the coin



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