An Ebay Seller Does It Right

I recently purchased a Morgan from ebay seller greatestateroadshow13. That is one of a few similar ID's this seller uses. Paid immediately - on a Friday - and received shipping notification on Monday, as I would expect.

Well, the Thanksgiving holiday intervened, and I forgot about the purchase for a bit. The week after, I suddenly realized that I hadn't received the coin. I checked the tracking number, and saw that USPS verified delivery to me on Nov. 18th. Yet I had no coin. At that point, I'm done - the seller is covered squarely by the delivery verification. The possibility that the delivery got somehow lost if it arrived here is zero - this is a business address populated by people I trust, and there is always someone to hand-receive the day's mail.

So I resign myself to having just thrown away $40, and wonder who actually received the coin.

A couple days later, the seller contacted me, having received the coin back as "undeliverable." Mind you, tracking still said (and still does today) that the coin was delivered the 18th. He could have kept the coin, and my money, and easily won any dispute I might have filed.

But he took the high road. He resent the coin, and as a gesture of thanks I covered his second shipping cost (initial shipping was free). It arrived today.

This was the auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/15069367621....m1439.l2649

Note the seller provided decent images, and described the coin as "AU/BU." The coin I received is an easy MS63, attesting to the seller's conservative grading practice especially when considering just how difficult it is to grade "slider" 1921's. Yes, I saw the fingerprint on the reverse - that's the reason I bought it. The only thing that will remove an embedded fingerprint from a Mint State coin is circulation...I figured this one was uncirculated as a result.

Needless to say, all of this seller's ID's just made my Favorite Seller's list. I urge you to do the same with him.

By the way, here's the coin:





Look for it in the VAM forum soon, where we'll try to attribute it.