blakeyboy

Here's the one I got off Ebay in a £300 pile of pennies a few years back..

Ah yes- as I thought....just because you are a close auction loser doesn't mean you ever had a chance- you don't know what the winner left as their bid....good job I wasn't tempted more- all I would have done is cost you money Jerry!!!

An interesting question to ask is why did the penny sell for less than half what It would go for at auction? What forces are at work that makes the Ebay coin seem less worthy? Is this true of all coins on Ebay compared to say, LCA?

I dropped my South Sea Bubble and it burst.

Sorry! " Different _from_" !!!! How embarrassing....

I knew from his other listings that he wasn't selling stuff he thought to be amazing, and would be stunned by how this one lot went. I've been there- I had a whole pile of old audio gear on Ebay a few years ago, and one valve amp went mad-it was, unknown to me slightly different to the common ones. I had one guy contact me and advise me what was happening, and his advice was so useful- I had so many comedy offers to Buy It Now ( just like the penny seller had! ) and I was advised to let it run, and an amp that i thought would be £150 went for over a grand, thanks to him....

is it just me, but is the date of the 1877 close date penny ( Lot 2422 ) a bit strange? The first 7 rather stands out...

I narrowly missed out- I spat my coffee out when I first saw it. When it was up over £100 within a day I contacted the seller and advised him to remain calm- we had a good chat over the next few days and he said he was hoping for £5-6, and was quite stunned. I expected it to do over £1000- who knows what the winning bidder had as their maximum....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Extremely-Rare-1971-2p-New-Pence-Coin/112871437556?hash=item1a47a974f4:g:F3UAAOSw-SBaquQJ Shill bidding gone mad? Was there one actual bidder?

RIP. Saw him last night in interview, and he was talking about a woman who had terrible teeth, and described her mouth as looking like a "burnt-out fusebox".....I was nearly sick laughing......

There it is again.....

Schh.....d'you hear that?

Just spotted this post. You know, I'm sure that it was a 1912H that Tony Crocker put on Ebay years ago that I was watching, and it went for a ridiculous amount. I was chatting with him on the phone, and asked him why it went for such an amount, and he said that the buyer said the nose was "different"....we both couldn't see it.....

2 over 1? What book is this listed in? My 20th century lists need updating!

I just thought that the esteemed members of this community might be interested to know that a 'milliHelen' is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

Yep, lighting angle different, but some matching scratches. Same coin. Scratches can be surprisingly 2D sometimes, and changing the light angle can make them vanish.....

Surely an "Official" complaint to Ebay from some numismatic body or other would force them to address this problem? The threat of bad publicity might have an effect......

Thanks Mike!

Today on the BBC- the commentator on the Ladies Curling said that during the tricky match our girls were in, they were "trying to be offensive".... Maybe it was the camera angles, but they looked quite nice......

Trying hard with the title.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Winston-Churchill-Coin-Crown-WWII-WWI-Hitler-Nazi-Germany-Medal-Silver-London-US/302638909182?hash=item4676af46fe:g:~0wAAOSw~vpaNvPC I think he hadn't got room for 'Gifted and Black'.......

Aah- just noticed the 'link' logo at the top!!! Duh

Greetings...I'm on a MacBookAir, and want to add a link in the text to a page on ebay, so you can click on it and bingo. How do I do that? I've tried everything, but I'm not a computer guy so a reply saying that I should 'format' it, or some such, means nothing to me....I'm used to just dragging and dropping, and that's that. I got round the .49Mb picture limit by always emailing the pictures to myself, with the file size on medium..... regards Blake

1868 5 cents surprisingly crisp...

I resemble that remark!!