Buffalo Nickels

That's a tough call. Not because of the seller's description - I quite agree that his description was deceptive - but in terms of value received. The question you have to answer is, did you get value for your money? You *did* get 20 different coins, for less than a dollar each, and you obviously weren't shopping for Uncirculated stuff.

Speaking as an ebay seller, in an environment where we cannot do anything except sit back and take it if a buyer chooses to leave us poor feedback, I would ask that you carefully consider what is appropriate Feedback for this transaction.

Speaking as an ebay buyer, I'd leave Neutral Feedback for this transaction, stating "Differing dates does not mean differing mint marks." My reasoning is, you got 20 different coins, the price was reasonable, and they were (I assume) packed appropriately and shipped quickly.

That's just me, and I should state that I'm very leery of pulling the "Negative" trigger. In fact, in 10 years on ebay I've never done it.

You ask if a MM makes a different year but you said he advertised 20 different dates, not 20 different years. I agree a year is a year but if he advertised 20 different dates then I agree that a 1929 and a 1929S are two different dates to a coin collector.

If you are Profesional you collect by years and mintmarks, but if you are a biginner you start only by year, if not by types.

Error on the part of the buyer: First you should have seen the picture where you can see clearly coins of the same year.

Error also on part of the seller as he did not specify different years and mintmarks (date and year could mean the same thing) Not all buyers are professional or Advance collectors.

If you are not happy with the purchase communicate with the buyer, he gives 7 day money back.

As for leaving feedbacks don't be trigger happy. Communicate, as people make mistakes. I normally just don't leave feedback if I not happy.

Thank you guys. I did get my moneys worth. There atleast worth a dollar and some a little more. I guess I'm just upset that I didn't get 20 different years. I send them back I lose $4 , so I guess I'll just blow it off as he was dishonest and leave nothing for him.

I bet next time you will send some emails to the seller and clarify exactly what you will be receiving. Glad to hear you got your moneys worth, though. Good luck with ebay in the future (and be careful)

Ohhhh..! I think I GET it now! After looking closely at the seller's ad, I think that what he was trying to say was that you'd be getting 20 different Buffalo nickels and that they would all have dates on them. I think he was trying to make the distinction between "dated" and "dateless" nickels. (There are a LOT of dateless Buffalo nickels being sold out there!) So when he said "20 different dated nickels", he was simply saying they would have dates and that each nickel would be unique. Syntax is everything!