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Canada
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Poll Question
 What if you had a chance to purchase a $500.00 Canadian coin on E-bay at a BUY IT NOW auction for $1.00. That seller made a typo and an obvious mistake in the listing of this coin. You now have a crucial choice to make! Do I contact the seller via e-mail and advise 'em of the blunder, or do I go ahead and make the buy? Below are a couple of simple choices for this situation, pick one and state your answer as to why you came to this conclusion? Glenn 
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11/08/2012 10:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Canada
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By the way, you have a fifty cent piece at the auction price of $0.01.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Buy it and allow the seller to give you a refund without the chance of negative feedback.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Even if you bought it at $1, they would never sell it to you for that amount.
I think I would just send the seller an email telling him of the error.
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New Member
Canada
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use the buy-it-now to prevent anyone else from trying to snag it, THEN contact the seller
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Valued Member
Canada
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I'm waiting for you to post a picture of the coin you just bought for $1 :)
Edited by trimble
11/08/2012 10:53 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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use the buy-it-now to prevent anyone else from trying to snag it, THEN contact the seller
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Valued Member
Canada
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Move on and let someone else deal with their collective conscience. The seller would never ship it anyways. Who needs the grief!
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Depends on the seller...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Philippines
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use the buy-it-now to prevent anyone else from trying to snag it, THEN contact the seller
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Valued Member
Canada
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At a country farmers market that I occasionally go to, there is a coin dealer. A couple of months ago, I saw that they had a Glow-in-the-Dark dinosaur coin with a price tag of $47.50.
I alerted the vendor that he should probably be asking twice the amount.
Later, a part of me was kicking myself for not buying it at the posted amount.
However, if faced with the same situation in the future, I would probably do the same thing.
My wife says I'm too honest for my own good. (But that's just me.)
In this case, I would email the seller.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It depends on the dealer.
Not many times has Bob Armstrong made a pricing mistake, but when I've noticed one (on two occassions) I alerted him to his mistake and I chose not to buy it instead.
The odd time I've purchased a 'mistake' by a few other dealers but I had a clear conscience because I know these other two dealers are what some may call 'shady'.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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This sort of poll tells us how intrinsically honest we are.
If he realises his mistake, he will withdraw the item from sale.
I wonder how many of the honest ones will not take action to inform him, reasoning that
"Naw, someone else will inform him."
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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glenzy1 has obviously got a conscience and bloody good on him.  He would obviously not have posted this poll if he was prepared to buy that for $1. Honesty is a great thing, If you are not born with it it is something that you should learn and cherish and uphold. I am very disappointed that 9 people voted to just pay the $1 and take advantage of this seller, SHAME on those that voted that way. I may be a bit rough around the edges but I prefer to treat people the way I would like to be treated myself. I applaud Glenzy1 for his honesty and decency in this matter and so should we all. You are a  Mate |
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Posted 11/08/2012 10:33 pm
