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Valued Member
United States
113 Posts |
Back when it started, I actually spent some time looking over it on the Coins block. It was like a giant flea market, had mostly junk and overpriced cleaned coins, along with a slew of fakes. I actually managed to get two nice things there, a 1996 silver eagle for less than melt thanks to their so-so Photons program, and a nice golden toned War Nickel set, which I posted on the modern coin forum some time back. Did anyone else here manage to get anything nice from Yardsellr? Will anyone here miss it? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1796 Posts |
Good riddance. :-) I'd go on a rant, but I am very tired... Suffice it to say, it would have been a great source of counterfeits for my collection if they were not trying to sell them as real and charging inflated Red Book prices. But aye: Huge junky flea market that spammed my email account, and posted things to my Facebook page that I didn't want (nor thought I had opted in to). |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
I somehow ended up with about $30 worth of photons one day and used those to buy 2 rolls of wheats and a Franklin half. The wheats were a good mix of dates, 20's 30's 40's & 50's and the Franklin was a BU 1961. Other than that I normally would troll the ridiculous listings such as the "Extremely Rare 1776-1976 Vicentennial Roosevelt Dollar" that some lady had listed for $30. I told that first of all it was a Bicentennial Eisenhower dollar, not Vicentennial, and that Roosevelt was on the dime. Oh the fun I would have with the SGS listings also. I guess in some sick way I will miss Yardseller. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5953 Posts |
I will not miss the spam that followed when I signed up. I never bought anything from it despite random people sending me millions of Photons.
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Valued Member
 United States
113 Posts |
Tim, I know those listings you talk about. Me and my friend James (Coinstar on here) would try to tell the sellers that their listings were incorrect, incomplete or even worse, total ripoffs. We would get blasted for doing that, some would even say that we didn't even know that we were talking about (despite providing factual links), and a couple threatened to sue, though they had no grounds.
I won't miss the deceptive 'clad' bars disguised as a silver or gold listing, fake coins (saw a bad fake 1803 Bust Dollar), polished XF Morgans being pawned off as BU, and lousy photos of only one side of a coin.
Maybe in some sick way I will miss it too, but overall it's good riddance for the coins part, brought back bad memories of pre-slabbing days.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1261 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
Yeah Elmer, I was threatened with litigation a time or 2 myself.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1510 Posts |
its gone? I was looking at it last night.... Quote:
Me and my friend James (Coinstar on here) would try to tell the sellers that their listings were incorrect, incomplete or even worse, total ripoffs yes that was fun--those people were losers....  Retired USAF 1983-2003
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03/05/2013 4:56 pm
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Valued Member
Germany
138 Posts |
I've never heard of yardsellr before, so I just went to check it out. They still have a coin section. Looks like a lot of junk...
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New Member
United States
31 Posts |
OOOoOOooOOOo I think I may have found a place to unload my special undated 4 legged Buffalo nickel errors! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
917 Posts |
I saved like 12 bucks in photons and got a 1949 Franklin for 10 bucks. Its the coin that I want the rest of my Franklins to live up to.
I got a few nasty post over Facebook cause of the people I corrected.
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Valued Member
United States
113 Posts |
I think tomorrow is their last day. The Yardsellr site is still up but they told everyone that they have to sell their junk coins by 03/07. So that idiot that tries to sell those worn 1966 quarters for $8 has one last chance for a sale!
The coins at the top of the site now are mostly AU silders being called Gem BU by another wannabe coin expert/grader. What a way to sink into the sunset.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1510 Posts |
Good riddance
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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United States
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Posted 03/02/2013 5:19 pm
