I had a 1917-S SLQ ANACS AU-53 with 3 bids that was a few hours from selling. I had the front of the slab and 2 detailed shots of the coin. I also always use links to view the coins on Flicr.com so that you could see highly detailed shots.
Because I didn't include the full reverse of the slab, someone turned me in and
ebay pulled the auction. I had to re-list the coin. My bad, I didn't know that the reverse was required because I didn't read the details of selling slabbed coins. It was 100% my fault, but it still made me mad.
I've looked at 100s of other sellers and they don't seem to have to follow the same rules. I don't know why, but they are "Top Sellers" so I guess
ebay lets them get away with the front of the slab only.
ebay wants BOTH sides because the reverse has the
TPG logo. I also see seller that cover the logo with a sticker, but
ebay doesn't do anything about them, because they are also "Top Sellers."
ebay gets to set the rules and enforce them as they see fit. That makes me feel like my sales don't matter.
I got a call from
ebay telling me all about the new rules for selling coins.
ebay has the market, so what they say goes. If you want to use
ebay, you'll have to pay for each photo, front, back details and slab.
The new rules won't allow us to use links to show photos, so if you don't pay
ebay, you can't show the coins in as much detail as needed and because of the limited size of the
ebay photos, some details are hard to show.
Listings will cost more if you want to show more photos, but what they say goes. I have a web page, but I don't know if
ebay will even allow me to use my email address because buyers might figure out the site name from my email.
*sigh*
On a happier note, I did sell the coin on the second try for $45 more than it would have sold for the first time.
ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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Posted 07/26/2011 5:44 pm
