Seller On Ebay Re-Selling The Same Coin?

Sadly it seems that some dealers with a good feedback are just too lazy to make new pics of a coin

I bought a 150 year old Belgian 20 Franks coin in Switzerland and a few weeks later the same pic was used to sell another splendid coin of the same year
I was lucky the coin I received was splendid

A large feedback dealer in Spain sold three 100 Soles coins with the same pic

I can tell you a story...I purchased an R4 10 shilling note a few weeks ago as a VF graded note paying well over AU$1000 with the intention of resale in my shop. The note was actually a fine grade note if you use a bit of imagination (tip here....ebay images do not show everything). The note was sent back. A few days ago the note was resold on ebay using the identical auction that I purchased the note from.

The thing that knocked me to the floor was that the buyer gave the seller "better than average" feedback on a positive sale. It tells me one of two things.....I have absolutely no idea about what I am talking about as far as banknote grade (this I doubt as I am a professional dealer and next to never get a complaint about my material) or too many buyers on ebay take what sellers say as gospel.

Co-incidentally in the last 2 weeks I offered prices on two collections basically accumulated from ebay purchases. One was a note collection all graded as unc with 18 out of 23 notes had centre folds or even greater problems. One note even had a substanial tear. This I missed out on and was told I would not know an Unc note if I fell over one. The second collection was a penny collection with every coin graded "Unc". The best coin in there was a 1962 penny that was genuinely Unc. Most of the rest was VF to EF. This just proves a point that many buyers do not know how to grade and rely on sellers to grade accurately. Too many sellers can not grade or choose to over grade.

I know my post maybe now a little off topic but it irritates me to no end that we now have a new grade in our hobby.....there was Unc....now there is " ebay unc".

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A number of sellers use a standard photograph whenever they sell.

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If you're selling toasters.

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Originally posted by Morgan Fred

I feel more comfortable with sellers stating "This is the actual coin you will receive" and have long since added the statement to my own coin auctions. There's far too many stock photos used for ebay coin auctions. The practice is misleading at best, fraudulent at worse.

I like Bigfella's description of the new grade: " ebay Uncirculated". Funny, but all too true.

Fred

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I actually had a top dealer in Sydney tell me, in a hushed voice, that his EF Sovereign was easily an " ebay UNC". People do not know how to grade on ebay, which is great, if you're a crook; in the end, it's only damaging to the hobby.

As a consequence of this, a number of unscrupulous dealers offload overgraded material on ebay to unsuspecting customers.