Severely Disappointed....

Ouch! I have been buying 'cleaned' coins lately, after trying my hand at the uncleaned lots and most of them are sent in a flat,sealed cardboard container, slipped inside an envelope that it took my pen knife to open. Maybe that isn't a practical way to send 20-30 coins, but it sure was hard to get to the coins I ordered. Just a thought.

That is a nasty surprise, sorry that happened. One doesn't expect that outcome when purchasing an item and a refund at the end. It is startling the number of e-Bay/online sellers that continue to send coins through the mail in unsecured paper envelopes in the hopes it gets there intact because they can skimp on the shipping fees. It's playing Russian roulette with a buyer's merchandise, which responsible sellers would not do.

Really? So you'll lead the charge to drop $10 at the local ship center to ship a $5 coin, right?

I'm still missing a coin from Portugal I ordered back around October as well. I've given up and the seller has refunded my money. Thing is, I wanted the coin! A couple of years ago I purchased an Anastasius Half Follis. It came broken into two pieces. I received a refund, but what a shame. A coin survives 1600 years only to have the post office mangle it.



I'm sorry for your loss even though you say they were poor quality coins. You'll never know what might have been in that lot.

I frequently ship inexpensive coins in a First Class envelope but the coin is protected by a corrugated self-adhesive coin mailer and I also use a red NON-MACHINABLE stamp per postal regulations for non-machinable items(don't forget the 20 cent surcharge!). Out of a couple hundred shipments in this manner, I have not had a single loss. If the coin mailer were to ever get separated from the envelope, I also have my bases covered there with a return address label on the outside of the coin mailer.
http://www.melrosestampco.com/servl...etail?no=383

Ouch... Sorry to hear that happen gil-galad. A lot of them looked like they were going to clean up nicely.

I also have my story of disappointment today. I ordered a coin of an emperor I really wanted, in nice shape too, considering the time period it was from. Last week I got a wrong coin of that emperor, that they happened to have had listed also (and it also happened to be in worse shape than the one I ordered). I informed the seller and not long later I dropped it in the mail to send back. And just today I got an email from the seller stating that he couldn't find the original coin I ordered, and so he was going to give me a refund. So I was pretty let down by that news. But the seller said he has no record of selling it, so maybe, maybe there is still a bit of hope that he may find it.

Oh well.. I figured as a long shot, I would try to contact the postal service to see if I could get any results. I went around several departments and also asked to talk to the postmaster (not going to happen I know). When I mentioned the postmaster, they started being more helpful.

I got a number to call this other department that handles lost stuff. They don't open up until later, so that's when I shall call. I know it's a long shot, but hey, I might get lucky.

Although, the coins could have been lost anywhere down the line.