I am digging up this old topic to give all of you who read it the first time around an update.
I guess the old saying that "no good deed goes unpunished" sort of applies here. My SEARCHED, SEEDED and NON-SHOTGUN roll sold on
ebay for $36.00, probably about $6.00 more than it deserved. (Thanks to all of you CCF "shills" who bid on it...!
) The winning bidder, however, turned out to be an
ebay newbie and I ended up having to report him for non-payment. Eventually, however, he DID pay me.
About a week after I shipped him the roll, he sent it back to me. Much to my surprise, when I opened the package I discovered that he had returned TWO ROLLS of nickels to me! Also enclosed was a note that read, "Returning both rolls for refund. Not enough mint-dated coins and too many common dates."
At this point, I just about went crazy. In case you don't remember, or are new to this thread, here is a link to the
ebay ad that ran for these nickels:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...20045419&ru=http://shop.ebay.com:80/
200320045419%3F_from=R40&_trksid=p2773.m38.l1313&_nkw=200320045419&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_naf=1&_fvi=1&_rdc=1
I absolutely lived up to the terms of this listing! My listing said I would SEED the roll with 7 different mint marked nickels and I actually put 8 into the roll, including 29-S, 30-S, 34-D, 37-S and other slightly more common MMd dates. I included NUMEROUS P-mint coins from the 1920's and I made sure NOT to include more than 5 of the common 1936-P's. All 42 coins (I put in 2 extras!) were full, 4 digit dates.
So - there were two things driving me crazy at the same time: Why would he return my coins which were very fairly described and what the heck was the story behind the additional roll that had nothing to do with me?
I decided to do some research. I went to
ebay and pulled up a history of all the guy's purchases going back for 30 days and - BOOM - I saw the answer! The guy had been buying gobs of rolls from sellers who were advertising (Drum roll, please...!) "Guaranteed unseached bank wrapped shotgun rolls" of
Buffalo nickels. I knew in a flash that he had either completely or at least partially confused MY nickels with those of one of these other sellers! There was one particular seller from whom he had purchased at least 5 of these so-called unsearched rolls from and it was my guess that it was this seller for whom the return was intended.
Well, it took some doing but I finally reached my buyer on the phone. It turned out that my guess was right on. He mistook me for the other seller. When I told him about my "unique"
ebay listing and the coins that I had sent him he said, "Oh...yeah! I've been looking all over for those nickels! Those were great coins and I couldn't remember what I had done with them!"
He was a pleasant enough fellow but I could tell from his voice and some of the things he said (like about how he's been spending his retirement!) that he was an old codger. I was thinking to myself, perhaps somewhat unfairly or even cruelly, that old people and
ebay may not always mix too well...
Anyway, I agreed to send all the coins back to him at my expense, so there goes that $6.00 "excess" that I thought I had netted when I sold the roll. I just hope that when he receives the two rolls that he still remembers our conversation and doesn't send them back and start the process all over again!
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Posted 03/15/2009 10:16 pm
