u/Hobiecat79

So obviously this would be really dumb to do but curious about coins and their value. Say you had a 1oz $50 gold coin. Technically they are legal tender. So if you took one to your bank and said you wanted to make a deposit, are they required to take it and then put $50 in your account?

If so, that brings up a whole new set of questions. Why are they putting a dollar figure on .999 coins? Does it effect anything like the inflation numbers or is there a benefit the government that is the equivalent of tax breaks for citizens. Like it costs them $4k to make in materials plus whatever the minting process costs, but then legally they say it’s worth $50 are there reasons for this or have they just basically accepted that it’s just stackers/collectors item at this point.

What’s to stop a state that gets federal money, or another country that we owe money to from requiring payment in $50 coins at face value. Can we ask for our tax refunds to be paid this way since it is legal tender.

I know these is all crap questions that aren’t really feasible but what’s to say they aren’t? Just thought it would be an interesting shitpost discussion.

Just had a potential buyer ask if I would combine shipping if they got multiple items. Not sure yet if they are looking at “buy it now” (pay immediately) or auctions where I don’t know if I can change setting now that there are bids.

Anyone know how I can set up for combined shipping both now and for the future? It actually makes it easier for me and saves on shipping materials.

Only posting this because of the 3 day rule and not sure how to handle this.

So there was a listing for 2 coins that I wanted for my collection but with the grades and some uncertainty I gave a low ball offer from what seller was asking but was still a little higher than I thought they were worth given the risk. The seller declined my offer and then messaged me offering just a little bit off. I apologized for the low ball offer, explained my reasoning for the number I came up with, referencing recent sales as well and said I totally understand not wanting to go that low. Seller ended up sending me a discount offer for the price I had originally offered. I accepted, paid and got tracking.

Fast forward to today and I got the package, well packed but listing was for 2 coins and only one of the coins was in there. I have messaged the seller (maybe it was an honest mistake) and am waiting for a reply.

With the 3 day rule on coins, how would you handle this? How long would you wait for a response? When there is proof of delivery, how do I prove an item was not in there? The package does have a weight stamped on it, but I’ve seen that might not be enough. Am I screwed? Looking for advice so I have all my ducks in a row if the seller doesn’t respond or make it right.

Update: seller responded and apologized, said they will get it out tomorrow. They were in a hurry and made a mistake.

So I’ve been looking at different coins and have seen some that the too good to be true pricing is enough to know they are fake. When you go to the sellers profile they have low 90’s score and feedback says that they are selling fake coins, got refunds, etc.

Ebay has such strict rules that I’m only allowed to list one coin every 7 days even though I’m verified, meanwhile you have multiple sellers like this with known fake items, returns and feedback who still have multiple listings going, and when I see $15k coins going for $150 and then I see 20 sold, it really pisses me off and wonder how many people ar out there selling fake coins and are too dumb to realize that the unbelievable deal they got is because it’s a fake.

I ordered a 1oz silver World Cup coin, melt is around $60 and it’s listed for $43 so I’m sure it’s fake, but it said located in United States, after purchasing, I got the tracking and it is a usps tracking number coming out of China. With all the tech these days, how does eBay not flag that as an issue? And yes I know I shouldn’t have bought something I know is fake, but I was actually curious and wanted to see the quality, and process so I can see what to watch out for on larger purchases, plus I know when I receive it, eBay will refund it if my suspicions are correct.

So I’m looking at an 1878-cc they are asking $700 for it. My hesitation is that is NGC graded as Brilliant uncirculated.

My question is would this typically at least straight grade for ms60? An MS60 is valued at $500 which I’m willing to gamble $200 that it could grade higher.

I actually already own a few slabs of other coins with BU assigned so just curious what the minimum these should grade at.

I don’t have any illusions that they will be ms68 or higher, more looking at what the low end should be.

Not that it happens often, but sometimes things get canceled for legitimate reasons on the sellers side. I’ve never had a seller cancel though. They have always asked the chat to request a cancellation or send a message to say to request a cancellation. Are sellers unable to cancel, or does this hurt their rating? I know on eBay, if sellers cancel to much they can lose the ability to sell. Does WN have something like this?

Here is an example that has happened with a couple of sellers. Say they are running an envelope game with 10 spots, but they only sell 5 spots. They openly say throughout the stream that if the spots don’t sell out, they will refund everyone. When this happens, they ask everyone to request a refund/cancellation. Why can’t they just cancel? Can we as buyers eventually get banned on WN for multiple cancel requests like we would on other platforms?

So far it has never been an issue but I was curious to the behind the scenes of these situations.

So I get that spot games are gambling, but when I did my live seller onboarding, we were told that when doing wheel games or spot games, you had to complete the game.

I have seen multiple sellers end games when they aren’t getting the money they wanted for each spot. I’ve even seen them end, switch out items and then start over. If someone is buying multiple spots and hitting the floor items, the odds are getting better that a hit is coming. So when a seller ends a game, they are screwing the buyer on an already skewed game. It is gambling for sure, but sometimes the house loses too.

I like to gamble, I’m even fine with losing because that comes with the territory, but I have stopped playing the games because I’m tired of the sellers ending games before any hits come just because they don’t like the price.

Why is WN allowing this when it goes against their rules? If they end a show, I think they should offer cancellations to the people who were playing.

So a while back I sold a subwoofer box. It was used so I got $30 for it. Better than going in the trash. Plus shipping was $45 for the buyer. All good, got good feedback, and then about few days ago I get a deduction for $30 more for additional shipping.

Here’s the thing, I shipped ups. At my office I ship 5 days a week. So I have the right packaging, scales, etc. this was all correct on the listing. Actually, due to my experience with shipping, I always list my packages a little bigger and heavier than they are so I don’t have this happen.

eBay just took the money out of my account, no proof, no documentation, nothing. Just a note that said I owed more.

When you ship as often as I do, you see the carriers make mistakes every now and then. Especially with heavy items, they will guess, or input wrong information. I once got charged $300 for a poster, yes, a piece of paper in a tube because they changed it to 100lbs instead of 1lb but I was able to show my ups rep, and even had the look at the size of the box and point out that you could fill it with cement and it wouldn’t weigh that much.

Back to eBay, they left no way to challenge this, and it ended up costing me money to “sell” something. Think the total sale ended up -$15 after fees and additional shipping. Total crap

There now I feel better after my venting. Just sick of eBay treating sellers like crap when they would be out of business without us.

Venting about 2 recent BS things that have happened.

First one- why can’t we set up immediate payments for auctions? So I sold an item (gold) that falls under one of eBay’s protected categories. Buyer never paid. After 5 days and no response from buyer I canceled the order for lack of payment (Says they get dinged but I doubt it). Here is where the real frustration comes in. Even though I’ve called eBay, I’ve gone through the verification process and am in good standing, I don’t have enough sales in that category to list more than 1 item every 7 days, which sucks because I have about 200 items I need to sell. After the first item sold, I listed another less expensive item but same category. When I cancelled the nonpayment order, I couldn’t even re-list it because I had another item in the category live. I now have the other item that just finished its auction and it’s been 24 hours and no payment yet. Have to wait 4 days to cancel it based on eBay’s rules. Even then I won’t be able to relist it.

Second one- probably dodged a bullet on this one, but also feel I got scammed, luckily only $10. For background listing was up for many weeks. I had the item listed at $69.99 starting bid. No bids. Finally I get a bid and then 3 days later (and just over 24 hours before auction ended) the bid was retracted. The reason was they put the wrong amount (They bid $70). About 2 hours later I got an offer from a different account for $60 which I accepted. Maybe I just always see the worst, but I assume it’s the same person. What are the odds that after weeks of no interest, I get 2 back to back? But why go through that for $10 off? I don’t even care about the $10, it’s the principle. Even if it wasn’t that, what really bothers me is that eBay’s own rules say that if you entered the wrong amount and do a retraction, you are supposed to rebid the correct amount which they didn’t because their bid would be the same. Again, don’t care about the $10 and probably dodged a bullet either way, it just sucks that eBay bans sellers and screws us over every chance they get, but doesn’t follow their own rules for buyers.

So just a heads up. I’ve seen a lot more payments fail, even mine have failed many times. Up for a couple years I never had an issue and starting in December I can get maybe 3 transactions in before my bank blocks it and payment fails. Call the bank, they say it is clear and then payment still fails. But it doesn’t lock the account completely as I can still do other merchants like DoorDash on the same account.

I finally had the manager at my local branch tell me that banks are cracking down on whatnot because so many people play the games and when the don’t hit big, they are doing fraud claims to get refunded. There is also other shady things people are doing and this is why we can’t have nice things.

I found a work around as PayPal will eventually lock up too if it’s attached to your bank.

As a seller, tell your streams if you are getting failed payments to move money into their PayPal or Apple Cash balance. Then set that as your payment. I have had better luck with Apple Cash as it acts as a credit card number. But you have to transfer the money to the Apple Cash balance and then set your payment to use Apple Cash NOT Apple Pay which will pull from your bank and get declined.

Hopefully if you let your streams know this is a working alternative, it will reduce issues.

Ok, this has driven me nuts for over a decade, first with wired and now wireless CarPlay.

Here is a scenario, I’m listening to Sirius radio, I get to an appointment early so I decide to sit in the parking lot and scroll Facebook or something else. As soon as I open FB, or almost any app, radio will automatically switch to Apple Music and start playing. I’ve had this across many phones and a few different radios. It doesn’t switch to Apple Music every time the map gives directions so there has to be a way to turn off certain apps from CarPlay. Anyone experience this and get annoyed and k ow what I’m talking about? If so maybe chime in and explain it better.

Anyone figure out a fix? So far my fix is to turn off wifi on my phone, then scroll, but inevitably I then get a phone call lol.

I’m running a Pioneer AVIC-w8500NEX head unit. Is there a way to jailbreak these units to get non CarPlay apps into CarPlay?

Here is where I’m going with this. If I have Bluetooth RGB lighting on my truck that is controlled by an app on my phone, I would think I’m not the first person to want to be able to control the lighting from their head unit.

Has anyone done something like this? Or is there another way people have found to control lights other than from a phone or a remote that is Velcro’d somewhere? I have a lot of aftermarket stuff but like it to look clean and almost like it came from the factory with all the upgrades.