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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you are selling an expensive coin, please include close-up pictures of the COIN. Yes, the slab is very pretty, but it isn't the thing with value (or maybe it is, I guess I'm still pretty new at this). For example, look at this titanic rarity. You seriously can't a professional photograph of a $20k+ coin? Or check out these pretty slab photos of a top pop coin. I guess I don't have ground to complain since I'm not going to be buying coins like that, probably ever, but I'd like to look at them! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thank you for getting annoyed at the same thing I hate. Seriously though, if you are selling a coin you better get a good picture of the coin, not just the slab.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
716 Posts |
That seems to be a problem with a lot of ebay sellers: pictures too small or not quite in focus so you can't determine wear, and therefore you can't determine grade. Seems to me they are only hurting them selves |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree, but I've seen much worse pics then these 2 examples...at least you can tell what kind of coins they are.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
539 Posts |
I'm not going to speak to a $20K coin but I have seen bad photos still bring in plenty of high bids. I suspect the folks paying those crazy prices are probably new or certianly inexperienced. I don't get why people bid so much for them when you cannot even really tell what the details are...oh wiat...it is silver.....buy, buy, buy LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Seems to me they are only hurting them selves I agree, and that creates opportunity for smart buyers  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3402 Posts |
Yeah ebay sellers have photos of both sides, obverse and reverse. And if significant the edge of the coin. KK |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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the two examples you have given are some of the good bad pictures where you can at least enlarge the pictures to see the coin in the photo. Its the ones that were taken from the space shuttle I have a problem with, or the ones that are so out of focus you can't even tell what series the coin is
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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The frustrating thing with those listings, and with probably the majority of slabbed coins listed, is that the seller apparently can take proper pictures, but they obviously care about the wrong thing. It's like when they take a close-up of the coin, and the camera auto-focuses on the scratches on the holder so the coin is out of focus. Except it's the SELLER whose auto-focus is messed up.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think its because ebay rules state the Obverse and Reverse of the slab (not everyone follows this rule) has to be shown in the pictures, but they only give you one free photo to upload. So to place Obverse and Reverse of the slab and the coin is uploading 4 different pictures since ebay requires the first two. When I sell I will upload the free picture of the coin in the slab and then upload from a hosting site in the description but there are some internet users that just do not know how to do this |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow, I didn't know the ebay rules were that strict about the slabs. That makes more sense. With the way they nickel and dime you with fees, I guess I can't blame sellers for being skimpy with photos... unless they're selling coins worth thousands of dollars, in which case they should be able to afford professional photography and image hosting. |
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United States
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I figure both pictures have value to the buyer of a coin, which is why I always supply both a front and back picture of the slab and close up pictures of the coin only. I know that a lot of my customers use the picture of the whole slab so that they are assured the slab will not be switched for another as the slab number is clearly visible in the pictures.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19935 Posts |
Classic! Some sellers just don't get it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I can understand not providing closeups on cheap coins but for multi thousand dollar coins there should be no reason to not provide closeups. I am sure that anyone considering a major purchase like that would like to make sure the coin is exactly what is being presented. Buy the coin and not the slab.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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With the way they nickel and dime you with fees, I guess I can't blame sellers for being skimpy with photos... It has nothing to do with being cheap, it is just pure laziness. You can add as many photos as you want to your ebay auctions for no extra cost at all, ebay only charges extra to host photos but you can host them through Photobucket, Picasa, etc for free. |
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Or collage the obv with rev into one photo. At least you still get both sides in one photo.
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Posted 07/25/2011 3:45 pm
