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Pillar of the Community
United States
1283 Posts |
1. Trying to tell the buyer what it's worth.
"TRENDS FOR $3000 !!!" I especially love these phrases on coins graded by TPGs with names like ACME.
2. Upselling the certified grade. "PCGS WAS IN A BAD MOOD!", "Looks Better!!", "WOULD LIKELY GRADE HIGHER IF RESENT!", "No way it cleaned!"
3. Exclamatory remarks, or even exclamation marks period. "WOW!"
I want to look for coins, not read the text version of some slick, sleezy used car salesman. It just makes me distrust the seller and skip to the next coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
675 Posts |
1. This one bothers me a lot... especially when it's a totally unknown TPG. Very deceiving! A similar thing that bothers me is when the seller types something like "WORTH @$28,000 in MS-65!" when describing a raw coin that would be lucky to get a grade of fine! What a bunch of garbage, but unfortunately it's all part of navigating the Bay. |
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Valued Member
United States
155 Posts |
I was just thinking the same thing the other day. Lucky for me my mind reads Trends in a title and just skips to the next one for me hehe. It's just people hoping to sucker people into giving them more money I assume, and either way I find it annoying so I just make a point to avoid it.
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"WORTH @$28,000 in MS-65!"
Report them for keyword spamming using this form. It works. Do not use the report link in the listing. That usually doesn't work. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
830 Posts |
As soon as I encounter any of those phrases (along with literally hundreds of other similar con jobs) I move on without even slowing down to look at the seller's merchandise.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2703 Posts |
"RARE" in the title has become an auto-skip for me. The coin is invariably an very ugly, totally worn or problem coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
651 Posts |
Another one that annoys me is
"I'm not a coin collector/professional" yet the title of the auction says AU-55.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
891 Posts |
The ones that really tick me off are the ones that have all the bells, whistles and flashing lights. I don't need any story or special effects, just good pictures.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2703 Posts |
Two full pages of "historical background" to scroll through, only to find at the bottom a grainy, postage stamp-sized picture of the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2703 Posts |
Gold found! in descriptions of uncleaned lots.
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Posted 05/04/2007 12:30 am
