Occasionally, an honest eBay listing can lead to positive comments!

[James_OldeTowne]

CAUTION: potential SPAM warning!

 

Below's an eMail I received early this morning - edited only to remove eBay's standard SPAM and the sender's eMail address. Sometimes, it's gratifying to know that people actually read your item descriptions!

 

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:12:42 -0700

From: <name suppressed>

To: <james@earlyus.com>

Subject: Question for item #3969276466 - 1936, MS-64 (PCGS), BAD coin with DIP residue, 1cNR!

 

Question about your item

 

Dear earlyus,

 

Thank you for stating the truth about third party grading! Many of the new over spending buyers (notice that I don't call them collectors.) think third party graders are the last word in grading, and they are so wrong. Not only are you a good seller, but you are a great and honest teacher as well. Thanks for a bit of fresh air!

 

Item # Item Title Listing end date

 

3969276466 1936, MS-64 (PCGS), BAD coin with DIP residue, 1cNR! Apr-15-05

 

Thank you,

<name suppressed>

 

James

[MastaHanky]

You should invite him to join the boards.

[DonHeath]

James, there was a thread about your listing across the street as well.

[supertooth]

James, Being a Walker person, I had indeed seen your Ebay auction. I have also been slowly reading through the great number of past NGC board pages that, not knowing what I was missing, I had not seen before. In reading, one gets a sense of a person and mine was of you that you were both knowledgable as well as truthful. Also have detected in you a willingness to help others. Having said this, I smiled to myself when I read your description concerning the 1936 PCGS MS64 coin. For my impression was that you really did not care what you received for the coin. If you did, you would have done differently with it before you put it onto Ebay. My thoughts were that it was "your" way of putting a little fish hook into PCGS. Nothing that would allow anyone to "come back on you" but something that anyone who knew your position on that particular TPG company would definitely appreciate. If I am mistaken, please forgive me. But, if I am correct, it was "PERFECT". Again I wish to thank everyone for letting me learn by reading your NGC boards. Been amazingly revealing to me what I have picked up in just a couple of months. I am an old man learning. Bob [supertooth]

[Hoot]

Nice description

 

Hoot

[James_OldeTowne]

(((You should invite him to join the boards. )))

 

Excellent suggestion!! I will do so.

 

James

[James_OldeTowne]

(((James, there was a thread about your listing across the street as well. )))

 

Don, please link the thread.

 

James

[melmcbee]

Hey James. I love your auctions. I tried to find the thread for you that Don was referring to but I had no luck. After searching through 5 pages , it finally dawned on me to verify that "across the street" is the PCGS boards. Is it? Anyway I love the honesty you bring to ebay with your auctions.

[James_OldeTowne]

Yes, I believe Don was referencing a thread at PCGS. Wish I could find it!

 

Honestly, my goal was not to single out PCGS, as bad coins end up in all holders. It's just the nature of the beast - when you're grading and evaluating thousands upon thousands of coins per month, some bad ones are bound to slip through.

 

James

[supertooth]

James, I would have bet a couple of bucks that it was a little professional dig at PCGS. But your motivation was apparently "totally" educational and "honest". So I owe you an apology which is herewith given. Have seen so many dipped coins in PCGS holders recently [not to mention the hairlined 21S Walkers] that it struck me that your remarks were quite appropriate. Bob [supertooth]

[EZ_E]

In my experience, James is a straight shooter with no hidden agendas. If PCGS or any other TPGS gets squirrelly then he will call them on it like the Norweb coin but, to my knowledge, he's never made a barbed comment in order to goad.

 

But, then again, I way be way out in left field with this comment.....

 

[michael]

[DonHeath]

James,

 

My pleasure. Link

[HaydenTubbs]

Way to go James

What just gets me is that kids these days just don't know how to dip coins

[Oldtrader3]

 

I had an '80'S T-2 Kennedy PR69DCAM in a PCGS holder that replicated the color of James' Walker toning. It toned in the holder! I sold it to a dealer who saw it before he bid on it. My coin surely was yellow!!

[James_OldeTowne]

MastaHanky,

 

The invitation has been extended.

 

James