ebay ended my coin auctions and suspended me

was selling coins on ebay here in Kentucky had just started for 2 months had
no negatives and 42 positive feedbacks we always tried to sell honest coins.
We had all of the over $50 coins slabed by PCI just to assure the buyers
that the coins were real. Nothing fancy but if you have a 1931-S penny or
a 1932-D quarter in low grade its better to be in a PCI slab for $6 than
just in a flippet and and who can afford to pay the big slabing companys?
On one day vacation and when I came back BAM!! all the auctions were ended
saying the coins were counterfeit. Ebay never answered my letter so I
figured this must be some mistake and I relisted them. BAM!! everything
ended again then saying my account was suspended indefanately for relisting
counterfeits...and I am prohibited from opening another account or useing
ebay in anyway....this is crazy. These are slabed coins for the protection
of my buyers!! I called PCI and talked to the lady who said that ebay no
longer considers PCI coins as slabed and that their lawyers were working to
sue ebay for defamation. I am not a dealer but I got these coins in PCI
slabs to be HONEST and now my little coin business is RUINED. ..what oh what
did i do wrong.....so here is my thoughts...lets start a class action
lawsuit....they cant do business this way in america...unless the countries
name has changed to iraq overnight and no one told me.... are they related
to saddam he gasses his own people in the middle of the night with no
explanation ...is that what is next for America? I have lots of inventory
left that I can't sell to pay the bills.....i am sure there are the true
scamers and all out there but there are alot of people like me what the heck
did i do wrong....

Floyd

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:18:29 GMT, "Floyd Henson"
wrote:

was selling coins on ebay here in Kentucky had just started for 2 months had
no negatives and 42 positive feedbacks we always tried to sell honest coins.
We had all of the over $50 coins slabed by PCI just to assure the buyers
that the coins were real. Nothing fancy but if you have a 1931-S penny or
a 1932-D quarter in low grade its better to be in a PCI slab for $6 than
just in a flippet and and who can afford to pay the big slabing companys?

I haven't used PCI, but their website gives their lowest price as $10
per coin. ANACS, an eBay "approved" grader, charges $12 for their
"Economy" service.

On one day vacation and when I came back BAM!! all the auctions were ended
saying the coins were counterfeit.

This was an unforgivable gaffe on eBay's part. You were in violation
of a new - but unpublicized - rule by eBay regarding certified coins.
Your auctions were not pulled because you listed counterfeit coins,
but because you violated the rule on listing coins that *includes* a
ban on listing counterfeit coins.

eBay was certainly wrong in imposing a rule without warning listers in
the coins categories, and indescribably wrong in implying the auctions
were pulled because of "counterfeits".

they cant do business this way in america...unless the countries
name has changed to iraq overnight and no one told me.... are they related
to saddam he gasses his own people in the middle of the night with no
explanation ...is that what is next for America?

While I agree that you have been terribly wronged, you lost me in this
paragraph. eBay is a private business and they can run their business
any way they choose to as long as they do so legally. It has nothing
to do with "this is America".

You have the right to decline to sell your coins to anyone you choose
not to do business with. eBay has the right to decline to provide
their service to anyone they choose not to do business with. Any
company can adopt any legal policy they choose to adopt. It can be a
bad policy, as eBay has demonstrated, but it's their right to do so.
*That's* the American way.

I have lots of inventory left that I can't sell to pay the bills.

People were buying and selling coins long before eBay came along.
eBay is a convenient way to buy and sell coins, but it's not the only
way to do so. While I agree that you were wronged, I can't agree that
eBay has deprived you of the ability to sell your inventory. You just
can't sell it via eBay.



--


Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

PCI slabbed coins for $6 with a 5 day turnaround for years before a
recent increase to $10. They still offer $6 or $7 specials in Coin
World. They are an acceptable choice for coins under $300 or so.
Of course the ebay approved companies are considered perfect...


http://www.frankcoins.com/ngcerror1853.jpg

You just made Phil DeMayo's day. Leave now.

"Floyd Henson" wrote in message
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was selling coins on ebay here in Kentucky had just started for 2 months
had no negatives and 42 positive feedbacks we always tried to sell honest
coins. We had all of the over $50 coins slabed by PCI just to assure the
buyers

On Nov 6, 11:18 pm, "Floyd Henson" wrote:
was selling coins on ebay here in Kentucky had just started for 2 months had
no negatives and 42 positive feedbacks we always tried to sell honest coins.
We had all of the over $50 coins slabed by PCI just to assure the buyers
that the coins were real. Nothing fancy but if you have a 1931-S penny or
a 1932-D quarter in low grade its better to be in a PCI slab for $6 than
just in a flippet and and who can afford to pay the big slabing companys?
On one day vacation and when I came back BAM!! all the auctions were ended
saying the coins were counterfeit. Ebay never answered my letter so I
figured this must be some mistake and I relisted them. BAM!! everything
ended again then saying my account was suspended indefanately for relisting
counterfeits...and I am prohibited from opening another account or useing
ebay in anyway....this is crazy. These are slabed coins for the protection
of my buyers!! I called PCI and talked to the lady who said that ebay no
longer considers PCI coins as slabed and that their lawyers were working to
sue ebay for defamation. I am not a dealer but I got these coins in PCI
slabs to be HONEST and now my little coin business is RUINED. ..what oh what
did i do wrong.....so here is my thoughts...lets start a class action
lawsuit....they cant do business this way in america...unless the countries
name has changed to iraq overnight and no one told me.... are they related
to saddam he gasses his own people in the middle of the night with no
explanation ...is that what is next for America? I have lots of inventory
left that I can't sell to pay the bills.....i am sure there are the true
scamers and all out there but there are alot of people like me what the heck
did i do wrong....

Floyd

Your spelling and grammar are atrocious.