I Think I Got Riped Off On Ebay....

They look as if they may have been dipped. So? The question is, are thses the pics you bought them under? Or if not, were the pics of similar quality. If so, then you got wht you see. If the pics were not this clear, why did you buy the coins in the first place? To not see and realize these are two low grade dipped coins, the pics would have to be nothing but a silve blur blob.

To be "ripped off" one has to be deceived. Told that these coins were XF grade and pics to support. Then to receive these particular coins. THAT would be being ripped off.

The 21 is an AG. That values at 55. The 26 is a 35 dollar coin in fine. I would give that a high end VG, so 30 bucks doesn't seem out of line. So no, you were not ripped off.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1926-S-VF-M...em35b62970ce

here is a link of another 1926s the same seller is selling...looks like it has been cleaned

I think you did just fine for the price that you paid.

As I said, they look dipped. In the popular vernacular, "cleaned" indicates harsh treatment to remove crud. "Dipped" does not indicate such harsh treatment. Thsoe coins are far too clean for the amount of wear to not have been dipped relatively recently. The seller may not have done that. Or he may be saying not cleaned knowing they were only dipped. And using the terms as accepted, he would be correct.

End result is simply this. You did not overpay for the coins, and they do not look bad at all. So I would say be happy.

I have bought a few cleaned coins myself, the one pictured here have hairline scratches more then I normally see, but if the prices are right. I would still buy it!

I also going through the learning process here but I don't think I be good as some of the other pros here in terms of understanding coin processing, like how a coin is being minted the way it is and how that error coin got to be that way.

I normally buy from reputable dealers, or the big 3 TPG knowing 99.9% is safe, sometime I get lucky just knowing what I have under the belt and picking up some nice varieties and error for good prices.

Chancellor, a dime stored for decades in a roll is hardly the same thing as these. That apples to oranges. These are WELL circulated coins that have very little grime in the details. That is highly unlikely in a circulated coin unless that coin has been dipped. That does not mean they appear unnatural. As I said, they dont look bad at all.

The coins don't look cleaned to me. Even if they were, you paid a good price for them.

If these were the pics you bought them as or if the pics were similar, please take some responsibility for your actions (purchases). Buyers that simply want to return stuff because they get buyer's remorse really make me mad. You tell them you had a no return policy and confirm that they received the correct coin and all....then they open up a case against you.

I learned one fateful afternoon how skewed ebay is towards buyers. I had an auction with very detailed pictures and an explanation of the cleaning in the description. The buyer contacts me and basically says "the cleaning is too much for me and I want a full refund" on a fairly expensive rare coin. I told him no, I'm not Walmart, and you knew exactly what you bought. He won the case because he said the description didn't say "harshly cleaned", it just said "cleaned". Keep in mind, the coin wasn't even harshly cleaned. The ebay customer service rep even told me he knew I was right and that the guy was BS, but according to policy, he had to rule against me.

I got so screwed with the strike against me and him leaving negative feedback and giving me all 1 stars because that was on my smallest account which only had about 30 transactions.

Since that, I also get mad whenever I hear stories like this where somebody is debating returning something for no good reason at all and not taking responsibility.

Well circulated coins that have come from rolls can look exactly like those coins. I don't see anything unusual about the color at all.

Chance