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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 901725, member: 5515&quot;]Good Evening Everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it appears that all my finds are miraculous and beautiful and I never mess up, but I figured I&#039;d tell you a story of how not everything I do goes to plan. A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a listing, and I was probably literally drooling when I saw it. Unfortunately, I got the losing end of the stick but it&#039;s a good lesson that not every deal is meant to happen. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, where to begin with this one. I woke up first thing in the morning to look online for any new postings, and what jumped at my eye instantly was a listing for &quot;sterling tea pots.&quot; Here&#039;s what it looked like:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]200323[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So I message the seller, and ask if I can see the markings on the bottom (no harm in being transparent, since they are already listing the items as sterling silver). He sends me all these photos, and it&#039;s at that point that I realize the tea set also has a platter. And he&#039;s asking $250 for everything including the platter. Now, based on these photos, want to take a guess on which item perked my interest the most?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]200325[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]200326[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]200327[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]200328[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So I tell the seller I&#039;ll purchase the entire set for $250, I also tell him I&#039;m driving from 2 hours away. We make an agreement, I hop in my car. I&#039;m updating him on my location the entire time i&#039;m driving...................I&#039;ve now been driving for 1.5 hours to meet him, when he says to me &quot;I can&#039;t meet today.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now aside from the obvious shock that this is about to happen, that a seller is about to cancel on me after I&#039;ve driven that far, it&#039;s a good lesson that the art of finding silver online and closing the deal isn&#039;t perfect. But overall, it&#039;s a great market but sometimes it doesn&#039;t work out perfectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I inquired and asked for explanation from the seller, and he proceeded to make up a terrible short story about how a family member had to enter the emergency room, and he absolutely couldn&#039;t meet. I was so mad because I was being lied too. If he just tells me the truth, that he didn&#039;t realize how valuable the item was, I have no issue and just accept the situation. But instead I get a bold faced lie, he promised that he would message me the next day (that obviously never happened) and the listing was taken down. So...that&#039;s my sad story to share, I&#039;m not really complaining, but just trying to show the other side of this hobby, does anyone else have a similar experience to share?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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