That Jar Guy Again

Very interesting paralyse!

Many years ago I listed a bulk lot of nickels in a jar on ebay. They were all dateless and I advertised them as such. Rather than count them I was selling them by weight. Well, despite my best attempt to package them securely, the jar broke in shipment. Can you imagine having to separate over 1200 nickels out of slivers and shards of broken glass? Boy, did I feel stoopid! The only reason that guy didn't neg me was I offered him the moon not to - or he was incredibly nice. I offered full refund and keep the nickels. In the end he kept the nickels, let me keep the $ and didn't neg me. Lesson learned. Never ship coins in glass jars!

I guess I'm going to play devils advocate here.
People overpay for coins,guns,toys,houses at auctions all the time.
If these people gave good feedback then it's obvious they are happy
or at least ok with their purchase.
I also know a guy that bought one of the jars like this.
He tallied what he could sell the items for on ebay realistically
And it ended being worth about 1000...he paid 1200 for it... doesn't sound like much more than dealers overcharge sometimes.

1873-CC Seated dollar mintage: 2,300

1873-P Seated dollar mintage: 293,000

My gut say it's a Philadelphia.

At least he doesn't claim it to be an 1873-S Seated dollar

-MV

I'm sorry but you guys should stop worrying about this so much.
That Seated Liberty dollar is probably a Philly coin and it is 100 percent authentic based on what I can see with 15 years knowledge of them.
With all the fakes on ebay I fail to see targeting this guy is worth it, no matter if what you think his moral character is.

I disagree based on the fact that it is an auction, whether it is live or ebay.
I went to a live auction... they sold a gun that was basically worth about 150 dollars as a parts gun... it brought 600 dollars because at least 2 people wanted it.
Now maybe they were uninformed or new to the pitfalls of collecting guns but the auctioneer didn't say whether it was a parts gun or pristine.
Its up to the buyers to do their homwork, not up to some coin forum guy to decide what is right or not.
from what I could see.. that jar had probably 600 to 800 dollars in coins there. So the seller still was taking a risk starting it at 99 cents.
Now what if the jar was opened and had more value then what you paid.... would you refund some money back to the seller?
Have you ever bought anything at an auction and overpaid for it... call it lesson learned.... I don't think it's right.... let's put it this way bobby.... I would like it if you got every penny shotgun roll with a fancy coin on the end yanked.... those are no different sir and they also prey on the uninformed as you say.