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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by 0xDA71D
03/16/2017 11:32 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Stay away! I wouldn't be able to tell if there was an elephant in the picture, let alone a coin. No way should you buy with such shaky and blurry pictures. I could have taken better pictures with a potato.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It's so out of focus that I can't even tell what date it is, much less anything about its condition. I wouldn't have paid anything for it at all. Straight away I can tell even with the bad pictures that the color is terribly wrong in either set.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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OP already won the bid on it . But like he says , he took a gamble . Hope he gets lucky .  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ahh the intrigue and suspense. Really makes me wonder how/why some sellers often list coins for sale with such horrible images. The nice guy in me says; Maybe they have a nervous condition where they can't hold the camera still? Or maybe they don't own a camera or cell phone camera good enough to take a clear shot. Or maybe they forgot to edit image or didn't check if the image came out clear at all? While the cynic and skeptic in me says; The seller doesn't give a crap about photo quality because its either a scam OR the coin is such a piece of junk that even if he gets $1 he still wins. And thinks the buyer will never win a item not as described claim with that photo. So the OP's really gambling on wether this seller is just plain "dumb" OR "as dumb as a fox".  . Edited by Harry213
03/17/2017 08:47 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You have one thing working for your gamble. All the seller's photos of none coin items are poor and out of focus. Good luck with your purchase.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I see a lot of detail for $15. Looks promising.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is a prime example of buying "a pig in a poke." The two sets of pictures don't even look like it's the same coin! You could get anything from a decent VF-EF coin, to a corroded coin, to a counterfeit. Bad photos are the stock and trade of those who market counterfeits, most recently from China.
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Posted 03/16/2017 9:52 pm
