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Exactly, i emailed him amd he emailed back *TEXT REMOVED* but also changed the grade to the DNW grade. Its not like the coin is'nt identifiable with the large E inscribed in the field. *TEXT REMOVED*, he can make all the profit he wants, i have a problem with large grade increases though.In my email i told him i posted both links onto a well known british coin forum, *TEXT REMOVED*, when i checked it, it was back to NVF, so now his £950 price Tag looks expensive Removed some potentially untrue accusations?????? WTF? I know you emailed to say he'd asked you to remove my comments but now you're basically saying my comments are lies??????Sorry but i'm certainly not happy that you've taken a side Chris when the evidence was obviously there for another member to also comment, Feels like some censorship going on Dave! You can't say things/make accusations that you cannot confirm are absolutely true beyond any reasonable doubt whatsoever, and the parts of your post that I removed were either profanities or were accusations that I know you cannot be 100% sure of - and therefore potentially libellous. If I were taking sides and pussyfooting around the internet all day without wanting to upset anyone, I would have simply deleted everything and probably would have given up the forum years ago! Instead, on this occasion I have stripped it down to the bare-bone facts. I also put in a good word for you with the seller. Would you rather I had just deleted everything as if it never happened? I bet that would have annoyed you even more. We have established as fact that the grade was changed and the seller agreed that it was changed and has stated to me that the original grade it was listed as was a typo. So there we are, problem solved. I don't judge whether things are true or false, or whether you are right or he is right. Even if you disagree with something, you can't prove otherwise, so keep it zipped until such a time as you have something negative to say about someone that you can prove (and I mean really, really prove)! Another member agreed with you? The other member agreed with you that the seller had deliberately wrongly described a coin (i.e. given it a higher grade) in order to make a profit? No, they didn't. The other member simply stated that they agreed with the grade assigned to the coin by DNW. Sellers can actually claim whatever grade they like when selling a coin, and I know it gets on your nerves (and mine, and other people's nerves) when something is bought, up-graded and then priced higher for a quick profit. It is indeed a shady activity, but there's actually nothing legally wrong with that. Opinions on grades can differ. The only way to prevent novices paying too much money for too high-graded coins is to educate them, and that's what we're here for. I have nothing against you rooting out bad practices and using my forum to bring them to light, because that's good and there are so many cowboys out there that people should certainly be warned about. This forum is easy to find and I'm sure we have collectively prevented a lot of people from buying dodgy coins from dodgy sellers (e.g. those gold plated modern Crown proofs that were slabbed in error as solid gold and were fraudulently offered as such by an unscrupulous individual - and very nearly purchased innocently by someone until he googled and found this forum and the warning). Please, in the future, only make allegations about people when you can prove repeated untoward selling practices beyond any reasonable doubt.

In more than ten years of collecting I think it's only in the last three or so that I've consistently made more than I paid when selling on coins to upgrade. A combination of factors is responsible (over-enthusiastic bidding early on, prices generally getting higher and learning to be more selective about my purchases) but I still think I'd make a poor dealer!