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Pillar of the Community
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i thinks its because of the seller and what they are selling / have sold. Perhaps from an estate sale and people are trying to get lucky.
Looking at the other auctions this would be my guess.
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United States
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In the middle there is a coin I can't immediately identify, I don't think it's a nickel.
Maybe that's it?
Otherwise I got nothin'
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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$11 shipping for 89 nickels too? Wow.
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Pillar of the Community
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Maybe they think a dateless buffalo is a super rare error.
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Isn't 1964 the year that the US mint produced over 3 billion nickels. Seems to me a lot of money for a chance to get a lot of "64" nickels. Oh, yeah. One unreadable Buffalo nickel. I'm a Jefferson nickel collector and I'm confused as well.  |
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Someone probably thinks it's what Burris paid Blagojevich for his senate seat!
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I am going to go out on a limb here. If you look at the current items for sale by this seller you will see many bids by brand new screen names or screen names with low feedback scores. I looked at some of the completed sales by this seller and found much of the same. Some items that were not even closely related had the same screen names bidding on them. To me, and this is just my opinion, these are what I term "bump bids." This means that the seller has either registered numerous screen names or enlist others to acquire screen names for the sole purpose of bumping the bids up and or create a false sense of frenzy for the items offered. This is much like the travelling "tonic" sellers of the old west. They would plant people in the audience to either make the first purchase or incite the audience to make purchases. Dirty pool if you ask me.
Edited by seal006
09/07/2010 10:59 pm
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lol using dirty pool in a sentence... +10 cool points.
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As a side note, the jerks also spam craigslist with sneaky ads linking to these auctions, so maybe they are that dumb.
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Shill bidding most likely.
Check out the feedback. Some chump says "I paid too much -- my fault". He ponied up (or the seller ponied up) $73 for a one ounce silver bar.
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There are occasions where I felt as if I made a solid bid on an item only to have it outbid by someone, then out of the blue, I get a "second chance offer". I will check the sellers completed transactions and see if that same bidder had "bid up" other lots before accepting. I will not deal with sellers I feel are dishonest, even if it is what I had originally thought to bid.
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Posted 09/07/2010 5:50 pm
