Badly listed coins on eBay

[petitioncrown]

Please help with ideas to improve the description of coins on the internet:

complaints:

badly photographed coins, out of focus

R, C, repro filed of so the coin looks genuine

badly described coin

graded incorrectly

We have to accept that the 'world is flat' the internet is a new tool for communication. It is only the beginning were trade will take place from any place in the world with payments to any place in the world and we will never understand were the goods are coming from. All this you understand, so what is the solution to the above complaints?

I often see a coin I would like to buy, but it is buyer beware, now I do not even bother to look at the eBay.

I look forward to you suggestions

Jeff

[Chris Perkins]

The only way would be for eBay to check each listing before it gets added. But they don't give a toffee flea (now there's an interesting expression that hasn't slipped out in ages!) judging by their rubbish communication with users and the fact there is no phone number shown. Ebay is one massive automated money making machine, and as long as you're paying the fees you can almost get away with anything.

[Hussulo]

To be honest I have had a couple of bargains on eBay due to poorly described coins.

One being this O Geometric (Spink 46) Celtic quarter stater for £42 due to bad picture (out of focus) and poor description. So I haven't got many complaints, but I know people that have bought coins purely of the description because of the poor picture only to have been disappointed when it arrives. I guess the answer is to bid low on such listings or make sure the seller has a return/refund policy.

The other thing that I have noticed is the amount of fake coins on eBay. Most will have keep the highest bidders name private (so you can't contact them to warn them) and most will be listed from the Far East (although many sellers from China etc. have been registering their accounts in America now to hide this fact). Ebay seems to turn a blind eye to allot of these seller's (they do make money on all items sold, and allot of these fakes seem to sell for allot unfortunately).

[scottishmoney]

My best badly listed was a poor image of a Scottish £1 note from 1961, I bought the note for £5, it is worth about £150 as it is a trial issue.

[Geoff T]

I got a 1953 proof set for £40 which turned out to have a 2A farthing in it. The 2A in proof is worth about twice that.

G