I win an auction on
ebay being the only bidder and the coin arrives, a MS Walker. It doesn't look like the pics indicated, in reality. The highlights are shined/buffed looking and looked whizzed/cleaned and the fields darker than the coin appeared in the pics ( it looked like it had a lot of lustre on both sides in the pics). The reverse was also quite dark with almost no lustre "in person" comparatively.
I examined the pics again, and it definitely was the same coin, but angled, lit, and shot in such a way as to make it look a lot brighter and cleaner/whiter than it really is. Some pics are really well done in hiding flaws - and these are the most pronounced DIFFERENT that I've come across so far - by far.
Anyway, I notify the seller, who I'd purchased 5
IHC's from with no problems previously from, and he says that's fine and just return it. I did.
He then emails me saying how sorry he is that he almost puked when he got it back as it is nothing like the pics and he totally agrees and looked for hours and must have lost the one he took the pics of and inadvertently sent this one instead by mistake. He seemed genuinely remorseful and offered to give me a great deal if I wanted some other coin of his instead. I wasn't interested in anything he had listed, so I just took the refund plus shipping refund he'd offered instead - as was proper.
The sleazy part is that less than 12 hours later he has re-listed the same coin with the SAME "questionable" PICS and description and all, but I will say he'd lopped $30 off the minimum bid price this time.
But if he agreed the pics were deceptive ( he even claimed they were of a different coin tho I could tell from the pics it was just angled lighting making it look optimal ) then why re-list using those same pics?
More BS/spinning. I get sick of all the tricks and lies sellers attempt. I've had other coins be a bit worse, or better, than the pics indicated - but this one was way way off. It's such a crapshoot when sellers are out to try to rip off others.
Posted 08/22/2011 6:48 pm
