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How in the world can this be insulting?

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errorist

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8384289036&ssPageName=ADME:B:BODO:US:1

 

I submitted my Best Offer @ $45.00. Nothing more was said other than my best offer that is how it works on Ebay.

 

And I get this back.

 

Seller message: "It's ok if you don't agree with pricing but there is no need to send insulting offers. It's a waste of your time and ours. David - CoinFutures"

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EZ_E

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It wouldn't even be worth $45 to me let alone $850!!!! No harm, no foul making an offer. Just ask Chris. He's scored on numerous occasions doing so.

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dinwiddie-migration

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Must be Corporate...I make alot of mistakes with my prices too and usually have to lower the reserve or they don't get sold at all. Some have no reserve at all. For me ebay is like my scanner ...very hard to figure out. Some coins sell for much more than I would think and the ones I would think would sell for a ton get sold for pennies. ????? That was a rather rude response though.

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Jazzy

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http://cgi.ebay.com/2005-D-SMS-KENNEDY-H...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/2005-D-KENNEDY-HALF-...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Another case of seriously gouging the market, especially on the MS68! Christo_pull_hair.gif

 

I wonder if that kind of phising ever works? Do ebay suckers actually pay that kind of money for something worth only a fraction thereof?

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cpm9ball

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It wouldn't even be worth $45 to me let alone $850!!!! No harm, no foul making an offer. Just ask Chris. He's scored on numerous occasions doing so.

 

Yeah! One seller listed two medals for $399.99, each. When they didn't sell, I offered him $39.99 for each and he accepted without hesitation.

 

Another seller listed a medal for $450.00 and, when it didn't sell, I offered him $70. He refused and ranted and raved about the hundreds (?) of dollars he had in the medal and gave me the "low-ball" line of cr@p. I was polite and apologized for insulting him, but I countered that I have studied more than 20,000 listings over the last 6 months, and he would not get any bids even at $200. Then he dropped his starting bid to $425 and it didn't sell, then $400, then $375. I'm going to wait until he gets to $200 and when that doesn't sell, I'm going to offer him $50.

 

There is another seller I've dealt with regularly during the last few months. He always seems to have some nice medals, but some of them never sell because he makes the starting bid a little too high. I'll put them on my watch list and wait until the auctions end before making him an offer. As a rule, I'll offer about 20-25% less than the starting bids, and he has never refused my offers.

 

Don't let a seller's ranting and raving scare you into thinking you're an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. EBay has plenty of pie-in-the-sky sellers with illusions of grandeur.

 

Chris

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physics-fan3.14

physics-fan3.14

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I don't get how something like this Jefferson is worth a premium. Yeah, the PMM is great, but this Jefferson? Every die cracks eventually, and there really is nothing rare about them. They might be a little rarer on proofs, but not much.

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EZ_E

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Don't let a seller's ranting and raving scare you into thinking you're an insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

 

Yeah, Chris, that's what friends are there for.... crazy.gif

 

 

Love ya, bro! grin.gif

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