Follow-up: that fake 1920-S Walker from eBay

Even if his account got deleted (NARU'ed), his feedback remains.

 

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I was going to watch this seller. I'm still thinking he will be back.

 

So far as I know, even by looking at his feedback, there is no way to determine if he has been suspended or permanently removed. Assuming this is his first problem, I would assume that he has just been suspended. And, yes, I know the definition of "assume".

 

You can get to a small part of his feedback, but most of his auctions, by far, have been "deleted" across the board.
Even some that didn't look suspicious on the surface. I think eBay went into warp drive CYA mode and wiped the slate clean of anything that could even remotely be 'shady'. A mistake IMO, and also an attempt to white wash the situation IMO.


Edit:
When I say "get to", I mean get to the auction to review it.
Of course you can read his FB, but without the auction viewable as a reference, it means very little.

 

I was thinking they only deleted the current auctions.

 

Nope.
They swept everything under the rug that could tarnish eBay... IMHO
Go take a look.

 

That's the one huge problem I have with eBay.
They used to be an open book and you could see EVERYTHING and ANYTHING.
No one could pull anything over on the community that way.
Now, buyers/sellers can't see anything that isn't lilly white, controversy free.

 

I would go take a look but I can't find him.

 

http://myworld.ebay.com/oldshakyc124/

 

March 28, a buyer claimed that the 22 plain cent he bought was a copy that the seller bought as a copy in a previous auction, then sold him as 'real'... I don't understand why that buyer left a neutral FB. ???
If that person had left a neg, the OP probably wouldn't have bought the half that started all this discussion.

 

I garauntee that this seller is working another account right now.
I am going to look at some of the knick-naks that they bought to resell, and search them to see if I can find him.
Done it before on an antique auto parts seller that was scamming that hobbyist community.
Everytime we found his new identity, we would alert eBay, then he'd get banned and make another.
He tried about 5 times before we totally put him out of business.

That one was 'taillightsteve'
http://myworld.ebay.com/taillightsteve

 

Haha!
Check out this item he bought!
A coin doctoring kit!
"Coin darkener" to hide previous cleanings and give your problem coins a natural patina! (their words, not mine)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190385969955

 

Some of you guys that can pick out a counterfeit Morgan dollar, PLEASE LOOK THIS OVER BEFORE IT SELLS!
The seller of the coin doctor kit is selling it, a CC Morgan, and it doesn't look 'right' to me, but I am not as keen on picking out fakes as some of you.
It's funny that the seller has a dozen auctions for coin doctor kits, but only has one coin for sale, and it happens to be one of the more faked coins out there... high end.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-Nice-Scarc...92?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item2eb57f038c

 

Melt the coin for profit, then send him a the cruddiest 2010 penny you can find! Or, tell him to flush himself down the toilet.

 

Here ya go:

eBay Feedback Profile for oldshakyc124

It does appear that eBay blew away ALL his completed auctions as seller, but not as buyer. He bought a long string of replicas, sold as replicas but apparently unstamped, from a seller formerly known as pondithes, now known as goldleafbazaar. One of his other victims tipped me off to pondithes; apparently, oldshakyc124 was buying from pondithes, then reselling the coins as genuine, and this other victim bought several.

I've just spent 15 minutes saving all of the accessible auctions where oldshakyc124 bought from pondithes. I'm tempted to start billing the guy for my time.

Already got a reply to my latest message:

I'm going to cool off a little bit before I reply to this one.

 

What state is the seller in?

 

Also, I'd like to point out that we should be reporting the auctions of "replica" coins that are not marked.
It may, or may not be illegal to sell these coins, even if the auction notes they are fake, but it is against eBay's rules to sell fake coins that are NOT legally marked as such. So they will pull the auctions, even if the title lists the coins properly, if the coins is not clearly marked and the pictures do not show the mark. Check it out... that's eBay's policy. The main pic has to show the legal marking clearly.

 

Michigan.

 

I wasn't sure if there was a requirement to show the marking in the auction image. This seller's (goldleafbazaar) auctions don't explicitly show the marking, nor do they say anything about it. (FWIW, goldleafbazaar doesn't have any current auctions.)

Of course, this wouldn't stop the seller from photoshopping a stamp onto the auction images, or showing a stamped coin in the photo and selling an unstamped one.

 

Which our Chinese friends are expert at doing...