Wow! Re-Return Of Crack-Out Artist Dknies1947

At least she lost money on the first one

I was watching that 1795 lot.

I thought that it was way over bid

Just linking to a few of the previous threads.

https://goccf.com/t/144047
https://goccf.com/t/136572
https://goccf.com/t/128704&whichpag...s=dknies1947

If she keeps taking a beating like on that first coin shell stop on her own

UPDATE: The seller, othodilley aka dknies1947, aka tracy47918040, has now been NARU'd by ebay. Good work ebay

If this is the third time, minimum, that they have done this, I think its fairly certain that they will be back.

There are plenty of alternatives to ebay, but it will be quite a while before any of them see almost 3% of all Internet traffic. And ebay's exorbitant fees (which still undercut any auction house with a truly usable share of the market) don't allow them to post operating margins better than average in the corporate world. It's not like they have money to throw at the problems being discussed here.

Mind you, I have no difference of opinion with any of the negative opinions in this thread. These problems truly exist. But they exist, in part, because people are trying to hold them to an unreachable standard. There isn't a great deal of difference between the standards ebay holds sellers to, and the standards you and I hold any retailer to.

Furthermore, as sellers there isn't much difference between us and any other retailer - if we can't consistently hold close to a 50% gross margin on what we're selling, we're not going to make a profit after expenses. It's that simple. It's why I'm constantly saying that selling $3 coins, anywhere, is not a moneymaking proposition. The margin pressure goes down as the value of individual sales goes up; it's why car makers want to sell you optioned-out vehicles. There's no difference.

The original poster of this thread has made it his mission to identify and expose, in a very narrow niche, people out to fleece buyers on ebay. He's holding to that narrow niche because there isn't time to do any more. Let's look at this from ebay's viewpoint:

There are currently over half a million US coins offered on ebay. Almost 400,000 World coins, counting Canada. 300,000 notes, from all issuers. How many people would it take to proactively police that? And keep in mind, viewed quantitatively as a source of potential counterfeiting, numismatics isn't their largest challenge. Name-brand clothing. Accessories. Watches. Electronics.

Profit or not, it's a physical impossibility to expect ebay to successfully police the whole arena.

Now.




Hit the nail on the head. And as long as all we do about it - we, the people who constitute the "rap" - is discuss it here, ebay will continue to operate under the rules they've established. We can wring our hands until the skin shreds from our fingers, but until enough of us make it clear that the status quo doesn't cut it, they won't change.

That's on us.