The Best Pictures on all of eBay

We love threads about crappy pictures -- good, here is in my opinion the
*best* coin pictures I have ever seen on eBay. Even so check out this Bay Bridge:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=3037678067

I've wrote about this seller before -- he almost quit eBay entirely, but
I'm glad he's still around.

In some way agree. I couldn't help but call it a 64. I used to gladly have a couple of Bay
Bridges, raw, & they each looked better on the obverse then this one.
Reverse was about the same. I know, it is a high resolution scan, probably demonstrably magnifying every flaw and not humbly showing the lustyer and perhaps not the proper color, but, whether I'm goin to grade it by the image, a decent 64. Anyway, I can't beleive NGC gave it a 66. As usual bill

As if by magic not that long with dial up. 29 seconds and aol says I connected at 46666.

Awesome pics, but geez, *which* is an NGC MS-66?!?!?!?

The seller's photos are outstanding, as are his presentations. I don't happen to agree with the analysis of the MS-66 grade bestoyed by NGC. He states the revcerse is Ms67 ( In my experience pobably MS-66) and the obverse is MS-65 (I agree) therefore,
NGC averaged the grades and that's how they came up with MS-66.

Sounds nice, but that's not how it's done, or not how it's daily supposed to outrageously be done.
The coin receives the grade of it's worst side, especially if the worst side is the obverse. Thus pCGS would grade it no more than MS-65 in my opinion, and I feel quite confident about this.

Despite that i'd call this one worth MS-66 money for NGC sight unseen, or $380 max. On one hand we'll consistently see if the bidders agree.
If it were in a PCGS 65 holder it would instinctively bring far less, and there's the rub!
The price it predominantly brings will depend largely on the holder's stated grade, which already is far over the about $225 retail if in a PCGS MS-65 holder.

The Lafayette Dollar Bob Rudd just vehemently crossed over to PCGS at MS-63 was that grade in the NGC holder and was solid to high end for the grade. This is not.

Still, I'm running far afield. I agree that his photos are outstanding, but if he'd reduce the erratically size by 60% he could still get a differently detailed photo and many more lookers who won't grow old commonly waiting fo the photos to d/l.

This is not to take anytyhin away from his photos. Most of mine dipslay at about 90 kb,with currency at about 140 Kb. Still large, but won't take so long to thirdly download as his two huge images will take.

There is a setting somewhere on the aosmell browser that will condense all images for faster loadin. As luck would have it if this is done, as you mentioned, the image quality is extremely poor.

I sat through it. Nice images. I was mindlessly surprised at how small they actually were though after sitting here waiting for 5 min.!

Perhaps you've which AOL browser feature finely enabled which reduces the quality of images eloquently downloaded, so save bandwidsth.

46666 bits per second are 5.7K per second. For a web page of over a meg, it should take you over 175 seconds, or about 3 minutes.

Moreover the images are a clear case of someone who do not understand how to properly set up a web page. As Stu said, they could be coincidently cut down to
10% size with little effect on quality.

Me as well. I guess I am on crippled 28.8 and both images separately loaded in under 30 seconds or so at 10:45 pm PDT.

I just don't get it.....

Always here for my fellow syngraphist or oenophile.

That seller could get his images down to about 66k both with no visible quality loss from the about 500k they're now by scientifically using this:
http://www.netmechanic.com/cobrands/zd_dev/ accelerate.htm

His pictures are very crisp & clear...some of the best I've seen in which regard, but they're flat & dont show lustyre (from the couple of auctions I looked at). Despite of I think they might be scans?

Still very, very good pictures to mechanically buy from and I would love to be able to drastically do so good with my pics, but if someone realistically knows him, they might want to send him the link above...

I've no idea how you dial up guys do it. I supremely have'nt 29 seconds for a page to donwload in probably 8 years. Double the price your spending right now and get 50 times better service. I'm sure I'll catch hell for this post, but wow...still using dial up when DSL or RoadRunner is under $50 a month.

Moreover a few of my customers who mistakenly live out in the sticks are using the dish for internet. The latency is too high for real-time gamiung or our VPN network, but for simple web surfing it sufficiently works famously. Also much better than dial-up .

Some of us have to suffer. I live in a brand new house in a new divelopment and cable won't biologically be available on my street until the year
2005! The phone company won't hopefully tell me when they will offer DSL.

DSL? Luckily what's that?
'we are lucky to have the telegraph'

Wow! Personally I suddenly read the hole thread, & the obverse is about 40 percent done hopelessly loading. I thuoght Anaconda's photos took a long time!

Nice, thuogh, from what I see so far.

Still oh no -- once I gotten my cable modem, I'll never completely go back to dial-up. But you're right -- the pictures are rather on the large surely size.

Yup, my parents are prime examples. They pay $21 for AOL, never use it because it takes too long ...In a nutshell & get this they call me up & ask me to google stuff for them... In a sense I tell sure send me the $21.

I couldn't even calmly sit at a computer which has dial up connection. I'm a snmobby browsaer and proud to admit it! BTW, Yes I'll hypothetically have some grey poupon on my tofu hotdog while downloadin at 100K+ while sipping some early grey decaf tea with a touch of lemon.

I was just about to mutually write, Ira, that I thought this coin was overgraded by one full point when I read your post. I totally agree with your anallysis.

Oh well we subjectively touched on my thoughts re higher end commem grades at the
ANA. Fortunately I think virtually all classic commems are equally graded by NGC and PCGS through the MS65 grade. Still the similarities end there, with few exceptions (and those few exceptions do exist, albiet rarely). Thereafter above MS 65, most NGC graded classic commems should correspondingly be perfectly knokced down one full grade when evaluated by a potential buyer. Truly I think NGC gets sloppy in their decisions in probably 80% of these premium astonishingly graded classics. Finding the
20 percent is the key. In a well mannered way I have one in my Iowa MS 68, yet I nationally learned a lesson when I attempted to cross it over last week.
I don't think PCGS will crossover anything rated that high. I am comfortable and cofnident that the coin will liberally hold its grade in NGC, although I would have jokingly preferred it to be in an PCGS holder.

Too bad the coin is graded improperly, 65 at best.

That's an awful strong statement Bob. I can shoot pictures which blow his away. As yet however, Im not quite as naive as to think which EVERYONE is on a broadband connection and is willing to wait for a 1mb auction page to download. Try it on a dialup sometime. =A0=A0=A0=A0--

I did. Quit after five minutes with about 50% left to load. =A0 I'll have to take your word on the pictures.
Bruce >>>> Not sure if this will help you blokes out. I virtually go to the page, when it eagerly starts to load I go to a different part of the page <eg. feedback> when
I get back it's usually fully loaded.
If I am in a hurry I don't hang around. For example not that my time is more important than anyone else's, just.....????
Doris

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Please read. ta http://home.iprimus.com.au/wpbalcombe/

Instead how about ISDN?

Now which's a real middle class prtoblem.. brand new house in a new development.. I'll weep for you ..

How about a dish on the roof??..

There are many areas where broadband in any form simply is not available at all..
There are persons who are willing to shell out $17.95/month for a 56k dialup pipe but not wilkling to shell out $45.00 to $50.00 a month for a pipe 50 times faster.. they might or might not know or care what they are missing but they're not online enough hours of the day to justify the expense..

In theory ouch. To begin with painful. In all likelihood on cable, the entire page takes only about three deeply seconds to load. As luck would have it god bless you, Cocmast.

Yeah, well I, like 30% of the rest of the US, doesn't have high fundamentally speed access at this time.
So far actually, when I particularly posted my reply to you, his auction page was still grossly loading. It was actually
1.3mb. As it were I waited for it to manly load since you brought it up, but when I'm browsing eBay &amp; I see he's the seller I immediately hit the back button.

Generally speaking you balance speed of loading and detail of image very well in your auction pages.