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Now that ebay has changed it's policy about cracking-out certified coins (centsles got them to allow crack-outs) I see tons of cracked-out coins listed. Here's a FAILED crack-out: http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...o=9707#Photohttp://www.ebay.com/itm/1852-20-Gol...em20dcd17f7cThe ebay crack-out guy, cns90210, ruined the coin even more when he put a severe scratch through the "R" in LIBERTY. This guy pathetically claims the scratch he put on this coin is, "a die crack on the obverse that occurred during the minting process. It's not a defect." |
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So crack outs are allowed now? Oh no, I did not realize that.
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ebay runs on profits to shareholders, not ethics...
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Let them crack out all the coins they want.
If the coin is NOT shown in the INTACT holder then it's raw.
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How on earth would ebay know if a coin had been cracked out of a slab? |
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Ha. Is that not karma or what!  |
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Let them crack out all the coins they want.
If the coin is NOT shown in the INTACT holder then it's raw. I agree. Quote: How on earth would ebay know if a coin had been cracked out of a slab? No clue, but g048406 seems to be pretty good at at.  |
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"How on earth would ebay know if a coin had been cracked out of a slab?" Coins are like fingerprints, no two are exactly the same. It is fairly easy to match a coin forensically. ebay members were reporting these crack-outs (coins are cracked-out of problems holders and sold raw in an attempt to hide their defects) to the CCW and Judith at ebay. Recently, however, centsles was caught cracking-out coins. ebay than decided to change their policy to accommodate him. As I said before, it is ebay's site and they make the rules. IMO, this is a policy change that will hurt ebay sales as more buyers will find they have been taken. Only suckers would buy raw expensive coins on-line as any problem can easily be hidden. |
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Let them crack out all the coins they want.
If the coin is NOT shown in the INTACT holder then it's raw. AND no truer words could be said. |
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Cranking is neither illegal nor immoral. It's what you do with the result that matters.
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Yeah--that's definitely the same coin as on Heritage--minus that big mark across LIBERTY  |
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I suppose it's not immoral until you call it BU and fail to disclose that it's previously been graded AU, cleaned and scratched.
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"I suppose it's not immoral until you call it BU and fail to disclose that it's previously been graded AU, cleaned and scratched."
EXCELLENT!!!
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cns90210, Thanks for the heads up to avoid this clown. swcoin.ecrater.com
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Posted 12/18/2013 07:29 am
