Ebay Sellers Make Your Blood Boil?

All these are reasons I only "troll" ebay for moderately priced coins. It's a great resource, but if I'm goin to lay out real money, the security just isn't there.

Buy from sellers who have at least 1,000 feesdbacks with 99.5% of them positive. Check the shipping cost before bidding. Always look at the photo of the coin. If it feels like a gyp, don't bid. As someone else said, no coin is now uniquely for sale --- as before the advent of ebay --- and the desired coin can almost always be found offered by as reputable ebay seller (who should e added to the list of favorite sellers). There will always be jerks and nerds buying and selling.

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Originally posted by houston_guy462004

Buy from sellers who have at least 1,000 feesdbacks with 99.5% of them positive. Check the shipping cost before bidding. Always look at the photo of the coin. If it feels like a gyp, don't bid. As someone else said, no coin is now uniquely for sale --- as before the advent of ebay --- and the desired coin can almost always be found offered by as reputable ebay seller (who should e added to the list of favorite sellers). There will always be jerks and nerds buying and selling.

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In the future I would appreciate it if you didn't use the term "gyp". Most people don't realize it, but it's derogative of the Rom, the gypsies, the same as saying "jewed down" is to jews like myself. Just a little cultural heads up there.

Thanks for the "cultural heads up." As an amateur linguist, I should have known better than to use the word "gyp," and certainly apologize to all the roving gypsies in the United States in 2006. I have review my "politically correct" terms, which go back as far as a 1793 Supreme Court case [Chisholm v Georgia], in whiich the Court notes that the expression "PEOPLE of the United States" is politically incorrect because the United STATES consists of STATES. I will also, henceforth, use the term "maintenance cover" instead of "manhole cover" if the occasion arises. Let's also avoid conventional grammar and clutter up out sentences with "he or she," "his or her," and "him or her" rather than the exclusive masculine gender --- which I am sure will draw criticism from homosexual persons (or "gays" vs "s**tstabbers) or transgendered persons. Our language goes through cycles. The "N" word became Negro, then Black, then Afro-American. The word "cripple" became "handicapped," then "disabled" to "differently abled." I do agree, however, that "gyp" was as inappropriate as "jew down."
Just an interesting footnote that has nothing to do with numismatics.