Discouraged Sellers

It's really too bad there are twice as many posts in the discouraged sellers forum as there are in the recommended sellers...

Not all ebay sellers are bad. I know that this listing is about "Not Doing Business" with certain individuals but I want to share two different stories that happened to me.

First one, I purchased a 1970 mint set from a lady in Virginia, sellers name escapes me at this time. When the package arrived it was in an envelope like you would ship a letter in. Guess what, back of the envelope was ripped open and the set was gone. I couldn't figure out by the name on the return address just exactly who I bought from as I had two items coming from different sellers in the same area. I contacted the first one and got lucky, I explained what had happened and possibly to head off other issues like that I suggested a change in packaging. She said that I was the first one that it happened to. I believe the total sale was a whopping $7.50, postage included in price, so It really wasn't worth my time to persue a refund or open a complaint. I had basically wrote it off to a lesson learned. GUESS WHAT!!! This lady sent me another 1970 mint set in different shipping material (padded) and didn't even ask for more money. That is customer service.

Second story involved a Barber half dollar for my collection. The mint I need was from New Orleans. I always pay within seconds of an auction ending, do not want to tie up the process anymore than I have to. Long story short, the coin arrives in a padded mailer. It was not in a flip, it was not in tissue it was merely thrown into the package, sealed and mailed. To top everything else off, it came from San Fransico not New Orleans. I wrote back to the seller and complained about the packaging and the wrong mint coin that was shipped. I also stated that the coin that was sent was worth at least $20.00 dollars more than the one I was seeking. I got a flippant response back that said, "Send Me $20.00 dollars more then and I could careless what you think of the way I ship items. Well, Negative marks all the way. Two days later I get a message from the seller. HE had been out of town and let his wife run his ebay business in his absence. He wholeheartedly apologized about the mistake, said keep the coin, mailed me the correct coin and refunded me the shipping costs from the original auction. Now this was based on me asking ebay to remove the Negative. I agreed as he did have a 99.9% rating but he had to initiate the removal not me.

Those are the only two "Bad" dealings I have ever had on ebay and both were handled in exemplary manner. Guess I am just a lucky individual at this point.

I refuse to deal any longer with ebay dealer "colonialacrescoins" in Canada.
They may have a ton of FB but my experiences with them have been dreadful - and they are a major dealer in Canada too!
Twice they reneged on auctions claiming the coin was "already sold" when I won at a low price.
Another shipment never made it here to the USA.
The one shipment I did receive was nothing special but took several WEEKS to arrive. The mailing date was a full 15 days after I paid!
Their idea of communication is practically no communication at all, although filing a PayPal complaint seems to arouse them from their torpor.

This caution is for VAMmers. I had a less than satisfactory exchange with seller dhirsh1149. He cannot attribute Morgan VAMs. He claims an older gentleman does his attributing without compensation. He was also outted on another forum. The coin was decently graded and problem-free but the attribution was so far off it was laughable (1880-P VAM 50A attributed as a VAM 8). Small photos make on-line attribution near impossible.

If you just want the coin, go ahead. If you are after the variety, forget it.

seal006,

Just his feedback would have sent me running from this seller!

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...=Negative_21

costadj2010 has had a FAKE three legged 1937 D nickel removed by ebay after several CCF members reported him on 4-14-12 and has the same coin up for sale today [eBayItem]280866473591[/eBayItem]
at a high bid of $855.00 at the time of this dishonorable reference.

coloradohiothai, Formally Known as coloradocoin. Floods the IHC listings with junk.

angus_coin_shop

"We buy and sell Canadian coin collection both personal and estate. We have over 10 years of experience in the numismatic business. Our coins are evaluated with the strictest and most conservative grading company, ICCS. -Nous parlons également francais-"



Seller left me a vulgar and profane message in my messages after I politely inquired about a coin I bought for .95 cents and had not yet received.
The CCF rules don't allow me to post the profanity here and I wouldn't repeat it if I could.
I called ebay and they were informed and promised to take care of this activity on the sellers part.
I opened a case to get my money back for an item not received.
The money was quickly refunded.

This morning I got this invoice.
I called ebay again. This seller should be history.
I am sure that he will return under a new sellers name.
I'll follow up if he does.



I just got a request for payment and the price has gone up! I will be getting on the phone now with Paypal.



All this over a .95 cent nickel.