Question About Grab Bag Listings?

Thanks Wade and JimmyD, I had the same question.

Wade-
On your first question, I have never seen a listing showing
a hundred coins but you bid on only a few. I would imagine it would be
OK as long as all the coins were the same and you wanted to buy a couple.
It would not be much different from someone showing a photo
of a single coin and saying multiples are available.
I may be wrong on this but ebay doesn't really specify this in there guidelines.
Maybe someone else might have an idea.

Your second question. ebay states-
"Include a clear picture of the actual coin being sold-
don't use stock photos"
Some larger retailers do use stock photos but they have to
have permission from the rights owner to use it.

It can be confusing at times what is allowed and what isn't.

There are a lot of BIN listings or auctions that let you bid on coins from a pile, but you don't know what you are getting.

There is also a lot of auctions showing a pile of 100s of pounds of coins and you are bidding on 1, 5, 10 etc pounds worth.

I guess it's a fine line between a grab bag and a stock photo of a pile of coins. I just didn't see much of an issue with the listing that was originally reported - it's not much different from the examples that can be found on the 'bay, and was curious as to why it was listed.