Ebay Sellers... Why?

Actually, they do not find for the customer all the time. The ebay guarantee covers the seller if the item purchased is not as advertised. Buyers remorse is not covered by that guarantee and if I do not offer returns, then I do not have to refund. And since I have been rooked too many times with buyers doing that junk to me, that is now my procedure.

And one more time I say. Nothing being said justifies the original point and nothing said applies to honest sellers.

So, we dont like dishonest sellers. Well no kidding.

Why?

Because ebay is the wild west of the internet with little no real regulation.

Sure they can claim they have rules and your bid is a legally binding contract and all of the rest of the garbage they spew but from what I've seen over the last 15 years there either they are the biggest bunch of hypocrites and will look the other way as long as the dollars come in (sort of like bribing politicians) or they are Detroit and bankrupt and only have enough money for 2 cops to enforce the rules on 1 million listings a day.

I am still at a loss as to what is so awful about it. Yes, it is over the top. So? OK, the guy has an over the top description. In your example, you yourself said a table full of nice coins. So you are talking about someone hyping something nice. How is that an issue?

And jack, how do you equate colorful hype to a lack of rules and regulations?

PQ is overused but it's no different from the car salesman who tries to sell you a used Chevy Cobalt with the hyperactive ignition that's a "cream puff" and "owned by a little old lady." It's called free speech and it's allowed as long as you're using opinion and not stating fact. I personally like it when I see PQ because it means I won't click on that coin and can move onto the next one. It makes shopping easier.

Basebal is right about re-listing coins. I've had coins that never got more than 2 or 3 views; for two or three listings. Then a month later I re-list it and I get 10 views and 4 bidders and it sells for $21 instead of 99 cents. I've had really nice mid grade LWC in the teens go for 99 cents. I've also had a really nice, but common, 1945-P in AU go for $11. You just never know.

As to the original posting. I admit I have problems with those as well. I also admit that I once ran parallel adds of similar coins to see if the title made a difference. And it did. Putting down "1921-S Lincoln Wheat cent; VF/XF, hints of red with great mint luster" did way worse than "1921-S BEAUTIFUL MINT LUSTER,MUST LOOK!! HIGH GRADE".

Strangely the former was returned by the buyer who, very politely and apologetically, said it just didn't match the other coins in his Dansco. This coin sold for $1.04 and 99 cent shipping, and the buyer insisted I pay for shipping back to him.

The later sold for $36 and 99 cent shipping and the buyer gave me a rave review in my feedback.

Using the later format I re-listed the former coin and it sold for $28.09.

This was typical of the coins I sold for that period. However; I really don't like titles like that and I don't use them anymore. Lol, and my selling prices are back DOWN to where they were before I tried that experiment.

Lastly I have to say that as a retired Interviewer/Interrogator I wasn't totally surprised at the effect that "buzz words" can have. I was only really surprised at how much of a difference it made to my bottom line. The difference being that I wanted to be more like Nordstroms than Walmart.

Lol these kill me >>----> L@@K***1964 Jefferson nickel semi key date***L@@K

how about all of those listings with the words, (better date) when it is really the most common date. (high grade) that really means low grade. (key date) see my comments about (better date) and so on. here is the way to bid on ebay, bid like your bidding on junk, not like your bidding on gold.