Okie-colin: I just read this thread today (June 8th) and I have to say that it sounds like a story straight out of The Theater of the Absurd. (And I'm talking about the seller - not you!)
I read the guy's ME page and he sure sounds like a regular old "salt of the earth" kind of guy...although folks who make religious references (as he does) always set off my radar. (...but that's probably just ME...)
Next, I looked through all of his listings for either a 1940 or a 1940-D penny. Most of his listings run for 30 days so I figured there was still a good chance that the penny you referenced on 6/3 might still be for sale. I found one of each for sale...each with at least 15 days remaining. I looked at the 1940 and read through the description and there is no mention of a D mint mark.
As a point of information, when an
ebay seller makes a revision to his description, the date and time of the revision is noted in the listing just above where the description begins. I see no evidence of a revision to either the 1940 or the 1940-D pennies he is currently listing, therefore I have to conclude that he did not alter either of THESE listings as a result of contact from you.
The next thing I did was pull up a history of his completed sales between 6/3 and now. The only 1940 penny of any sort in that period was a lot containing both a 1940 and a 1940-S penny. The description for that lot did not mention "D".
The only other thing I can think of is that he pulled the listing altogether...and that just doesn't make a lot of sense either, but what else is there?
Please don't take this the wrong way...but sometimes emails can be misread or misinterpreted. When you're typing them out, in your head, you're hearing yourself say them with an inflection here or a pause there...and sometimes those things are critical to conveying what you want to get across. If you still have your email to him (it might be in your
ebay SENT messages if you were doing it through
ebay) is there anything at all that might be interpreted as threatening or adversarial?
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Posted 06/08/2009 4:36 pm
