Get this seller banned... keeps selling fakes

They can cancel the sale and still leave feedback for each other, so no fees would be owed.

 

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I mean, 94.4 positive feedback is something...

 

You can't always go by the feedback. I have seen buyers give negatives for what I consider picky reasons. Like I won the auction on Tuesday and seller did not ship until Thursday. And then the Auction clearly stated he only ships on Tuesday or Thursdays. So feed back can be useless in some cases. Now in this case, plus all the read flags - it tells me this guy is a scammer.

 

I don't think his nose is cleaned.........bogger fellow. I'd shy away.

 

I said 'something.' I guess you're right though.

 

I'll take 10 . Hopefully they'll all be MS-67+ coins .

 

I'm a bit surprised the seller doesn't say in the sale, "For an extra $10 each, I'll put 'em in a phony holder for ya and give 'em whatever grade ya want." But he would probably phrase it more tactfully than that.

 

One negative feedback is: "This seller Very bad and he sexually harassed me". Don't let it happen to you!

 

All but one of his listings are for Indian Head gold coins. Isn't that variety a favorite of counterfeiters?

 

If I remember correctly, he claimed he found most of those metal detecting too. Odd story.

 

I know you know what you're doing when it comes to these coins, @jwitten. If I knew even half as much as you, I'd help out. I'll just say this. If these are counterfeits, and especially if this is a pattern and practice of consumer fraud, the law ought to be involved. Somebody who knows what they're talking about ought to be calling the Attorney General's office on this guy.

 

EBay and all sellers have the same problem with counterfeiters: they don't know how to stop it.

 

For what it's worth... those two coppers in their completed items both appear to be modern fakes with that "oven-baked blue" as I like to call it.

 

They used to. For years, Ebay's CCW was a vicious anti-counterfeiting weapon. Then they disbanded it, and stopped caring.

 

If China was printing counterfeit bills and selling them in bulk to Americans on EBay, the Secret Service would be through all parties like corn through a goose.

It would be a good project for the ANA to push federal legislation making the manufacture, possession and sale of "replica coins" a criminal offense. No reason it can't be done.

 

Um, counterfeit coins are just as illegal as counterfeit bills and always have been....

If you want an eye-opener, read the Hobby Protection Act, including the updates signed into law by President Obama last December. It'll give you a clear picture of just how flagrantly Ebay is thumbing their nose to the law.

 

Did you actually look at his feedback? It's hard for me to believe that anyone would bid on his stuff after looking through his one page of feedback. Lots of red circles, usually for nondelivery of items.

 

How the heck does that even happen over ebay?? lol

I get that the sale of counterfeits is illegal and perfectly understandable. But what if someone unknowingly ends up with one and was passed down through different people? Is the person who is in "possession" of it without knowing, committing a crime? I think there should be boundaries to such laws, like throwing an innocent person in jail, as one example. Of course as long as said person doesn't list it on ebay...

 

Ever inadvertantly got a fake $20 bill? You don't go to jail but you do lose it without compensation. Should be the same for fake coins.

 

Super Dave

Thanks! You are correct. EBay IMHO is acting as a knowing conduit for illegal activity. They don't get a pass simply because it is too much trouble to monitor.