I Could Really Use Some Advice On An Ebay Transaction

Man oh man, lesson learned.

1) Foreign seller, might be OK, but paying the high shipping and possibly having to deal with a return is a huge negative. I never buy from anyone outside the US, it's not worth the risk.
2) Slabbed from a non-top tier TPG basement slabber UCGS......never worth trusting. When you see a basement slab assume it's a much, much lower grade, in this case probably AU or less. Target your max bid based on CDN, in this case maybe EF or melt. If it goes above your max, let the bidiots have it. There's always another day and another coin.
3) I never trust a seller that makes ridiculous value claims, pure BS. That's a HUGE red flag.

At this point it wouldn't hurt to contact the seller see what they offer. Even though they say "no returns accepted", they might give in to keep their 100% rating. If they won't refund plus shipping, I'd just keep it and have a lesson learned. You don't want to be out $20 in shipping on a $66 buy on a coin that might be worth little above melt.

Well, you are right on as far as things I should have been looking for. This listing was covered with red flags from top to bottom and I really do mean from top to bottom. In the upper area of their description, in large bold letters states, "7 DAY 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE" But then at the very very bottom in the last paragraph they have a terms of sale that states, "Refunds are accepted only if item proven false or fake, no refund for grading issues as we are not responsible for the grading system"

I don't know how ebay would treat this. I'm hoping that the seller will not be willing to risk his 100% feedback and postage will only be $4 plus confirmation, insurance, etc.

What a dumb dumb thing to do. I had this same type of issue happen at auctionzip.com. and it was many hundreds more. I plan on posting more about auctionzip and that issue once I get some decent photos to post here.

I guess it's because there are no good places to buy from in my area, that I buy from online places. And as you well know Thad, I spend most of my money right here at Coin Community and have also had the best results here.

I also just spent $2200 on one ebay transaction but it was for silver eagles from a seller with over 5k in feedback and I have been wanting to invest a little bit in silver. I guess it's all in the seller I suppose.

Okay, I need some quick advice here. I wrote to the guy twice through ebay communication. The first email I indicated that the grade was way off. He offered a $20 refund. Before I had time to answer that one, I wrote to him and mentioned (as bherring so awesomely pointed out) that the mintmark is not Philadelphia and actually New Orleans. In this second email he offered $40 or I can return it to him. This brings the price from $76.90 to 36.90, but the coin is still only worth $20 on greysheet. If not, it will cost me $4 to ship it back to Australia and they don't offer confirmation or insurance through the USPS. He seems very interested in maintaining his feedback score. So much so that he stated that I would be required to give him 100% feedback before he did any refund.

In a case like this I sometimes wonder if it would just be better to end the ordeal than to have to worry about the coin getting there or whatever else could happen. It's a $16 dollar difference.

Part if this ebay transaction was my oversight because while he didn't provide all of the photos where they normally are, he wrote back and stated that they were together with the description. In fact, they were but I didn't notice that. I saw all of the sales mumbo jumbo and thought that those photos were part of this sales banner or something.

The coin I see in the auction (if it's the one you have in hand) is worth about $25 give or take. I don't like the idea of haggling with an ebay seller in Australia but........ask for $50 back and if he agrees, keep the coin for $26.90.

I'd be inclined to take the $40 refund and be done. However, I would not be held hostage with feedback BEFORE the refund. Explain to him that feedback occurs AFTER the deal is completed to everyones satisfaction.

With something like that you need to know what a 67 looks like.
I just got a few in the store yesterday and after looking at the it in OBVIOUS that that was no 67. Also its been said before but there were just to many red flags.