Ebay Purchase-I'm Crossing My Fingers!

Well, just check that 'D' very carefully. Some fakers have gotten very good at attaching it onto lower grade 32s. I've see a fake that was barely caught at even a 10x loupe. It's supposed to have a "certain shape", but wear on G coins can genuinely distort that shape enough to not be a reliable indicator, one way or the other. I've bought two 32d lower grade coins on ebay a few years ago in separate auctions. One of them I currently believe to have been duped, and it's extremely hard to tell.

Yeah, I'm going to have a friend who owns a coin shop look it over for his opinion also. He is really knowledgeable about numismatics, and I trust his opinion. Thank you for the input and advice. As for posting pictures, I am not that advanced in the use of a computer yet. Actually I haven't spent the time to try and figure out how to link the ebay listing to the thread. I may try to later this evening.

EXACTLY.
If your FRIEND owns a coin store, why would you even consider ebay?

he actually said he got a pretty good deal on it, depending on what the deal actually was it might have been worth the chance. It really disappoints me when people come out and speak so negatively on this site. If your opinion is negative then by all means share it, but there is no need to come across as mean.
A simple
"when buying key date coins I would rather go to a coin shop and buy a coin I knew wasn't a fake then take a chance on an ebay auction"
would have worked just as well and kept people reading what you have to say. A lot of the times I skip over certain peoples posts because they almost always come off very negative, and I don't want to sit there and read all that
good luck and hopefully you can get a quick link up soon.

Now that is an opinion and may or may not be true.
I thought his comments about you were funny since he complained about what you said and ignored me completely and I agreed with you and added more.
I feel left out from his scorning. Makes me feel ignored.

maybe it just takes 7,000 posts to be one of the cool kids on the block around here
I figured I didn't need to point you out too, but I just thought there were easier ways to go about telling someone something.
this is supposed to be a learning site
I guess you guys are people who teach by yelling instead of teach by showing and telling and gaining understanding
oh well. No hard feelings you guys have helped me out a ton, I just think the sarcasm and way you guys say some things might turn some people off who are just trying to understand
Good times
anyways back to people talking about the post
:)

googoo,

when someone titles their post " ebay purchase- I'm crossing my fingers!", many of those posts end badly when the buyer finds out the coin is fake/altered. I am not saying this one will end that way, but I have seen dozens of posts with a bad outcome. You may call me cynical but I call it being realistic.


That "good deal" will look like a bad deal in a hurry when a buyer finds out it is a 32P with an added D mintmark. Buying raw key date coins on ebay is very much a crapshoot if you are not well-versed in authentication and identifying diagnostics.

Based on the title of the post, I assume that the OP falls into that group of less-experienced collectors. It was also made clear that the OP has a good friend at a coin shop which is a relationship that should not be ignored. If you have a trusted shop, your chances of getting a bum coin are almost nil and paying a little extra for a coin that is guaranteed to be genuine can save you alot of hassle in the long run. Sure, it is assuring to get the opinion of the shop after the coin is purchased on ebay but one must learn that you cannot use a coin shop as your own personal ebay coin authentication service. That is a sure-fire way to anger a shop owner over time as they have nothing to gain since they are continually examining coins that they did not make any money on. Repeated behavior like that can and will get you banned from a shop and a collector will be worse off in the long run.


I would never phrase a statement that way because I feel confident enough in my skills that I could could buy the right raw 1932D or S from ebay. However, my skills do not apply to anyone else, especially an inexperienced collector, so a statement must be geared towards that inexperience. I would always recommend that an inexperienced collector pay a visit to their local trusted shop first before dropping upwards of $100 or more on ebay.


You are reading way too much into posts, there has been nothing mean posted here at all. Trust me when I say this with all sincerity, this is probably the friendliest coin forum around. If you want to see mean, hang out at the PCGS Collectors Universe forum for a while and you will soon learn the true meaning of "getting flamed". That place is literally a shark tank where newbies dare not tread.

Many posters speak from experience and that experience includes seeing many new collectors getting burned over the years and they come here posting about their bad purchases. What you see as "yelling" is merely attempts to help newbies avoid the pitfalls of a hobby with a very steep and financially dangerous learning curve. However, we are also not here to hold your hand and mollycoddle you. We want people to learn and gain experience but occasionally someone comes by who has no interest in learning so they keep repeatedly asking the same questions over and over, a sure sign of informational abuse, for the sole purpose of their own financial gain. I thoroughly enjoy educating people that truly want to learn but I do not really have much use for the other type.

Obviously, I feel that you are in the group that wants to learn otherwise I would not have just spent 45 minutes typing War and Peace here My advise to you googoo is to lighten up a little and not take little bits of electrons so seriously, you cannot read someone's emotions on a forum so you have to take the emotional aspect out of it and just enjoy yourself and soak up the knowledge