Need Help Grading My Dime

You may have voided your "warranty" by removing it from the slab, but there is a bigger issue here than a warranty.

For example, if this was slobbed ms65 and you opened it, then later reslobbed it and it wouldn't make 65 again, tough noogies. You did indeed void your warranty.

At issue here is whether the coin is genuine. Title to a counterfeit coin cannot legally pass. He can't sell you a counterfeit, period. Doesn't matter if it's been 7 days, 7 weeks, 7 months, or 7 decades.

Further, it doesn't matter if it's still in the case, if the case itself is fake, or even if a fake coin got past PCGS as genuine. ebay still has images (permanently, IIRC) if the case is fake. At the very least, PP will see it as SNAD. The fact you opened the holder doesn't matter--you did something perfectly rational: you bought a coin on the strength of a PCGS slab, then removed the coin because slabs don't fit in albums.

Good luck, and don't delay. Check the number on the case as your first step, and at the same time contact PP. Push come to shove, there are laws against counterfeiting and mail fraud.

And do let us know who the seller is, so we can see if there is other questionable activity.

Bigfredd is right across the board, with (in my opinion) one exception: There's no way to ever prove that the coin being discussed here was the one in that slab. For that reason, by all means file the necessary complaints but don't be surprised if they go against you.

Does anyone have a link to this seller?
What was the item number?
I know Brad tried to do some research.

Why not? ebay still has the pix from the auction.

He said he'd purchased it last thursday(May 5), so it should turn up in an auction search. I suppose the listing could have been reported and axed post auction end, and then the record would no longer exist. If that were the case though, he should have been notified by ebay. This just isn't adding up.

The average ebay auction picture isn't remotely conclusive. My own auction pictures - which I vainly state are pretty darn good - are not conclusive. The seller will only need the smallest of wiggle room to make a strong case of denial for a coin no longer in the slab it was auctioned in. Of course, as capricious as Ebay/Paypal is, it could just as easily go in the buyer's favor even in the face of contradictory evidence.

And yet an auction number or link has still not been provided after repeated requests by multiple people. Something is fishy about this whole situation...

As desperately as ebay is trying to become Amazon, they tend to side with buyers much more than they used to.