The latest eBay scam..

I just came across this on eBay. Now they have moved on from the jars of coins to sealed evidence bags.. Wow!! What will they come up with next?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SEALED-ALCA...-CIRC-COINS-/381465245299?hash=item58d119b673

 

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This seller has been selling these 'evidence bags' and 'unclaimed property bags' for years. It saddens me that they are able to misrepresent their items in this way preying on the under informed. Alcatraz has been shuttered for decades.

 

I didn't know Alcatraz inmates could send their coins out for grading...

 

I'm like 99% sure that grading company wasn't around when Alcatraz was open.

 

I like the "unsearched rolls" with a vdb showing on one end with the caption '09' S ?

 

A scam so lame, any suckers who bite will deserve it

 

I like that Alcatraz, Navy Recruits, courthouses, and banks used the same exact "Evidence" form....

 

Gotta give him credit for dreaming this scam up!!
After all - "20 sold" (20 suckers!)

 

Nobody deserves to be ripped off by these con-men who take advantage of trusting people. It's too bad that Ebay does not take a more active role in trying to control these scams

 

It is the same marketing scheme you see all the time like "junk drawer", "unsearched rolls", or jars.

 

Did barcoding even exist when Alcatraz was open for business???

 

Two statements come to mind:

There's a sucker born every minute.

A fool is easily parted from his money.

 

It's actually a good price - if the slabs are re-usable. Those are expensive!

Ungraded and well circulated common date coins in an unlabeled "plastic bag" from Alcatraz....

Never know, they might accidentally put something nice in there. But I digress...

 

Alacatraz closed in 1963.

 

EBay doesn't care.

 

Good article on slabbed coins:

http://www.usgoldexpert.com/articles/the-10-greatest-myths-of-slabbed-coins/

 

I understand these are just slabbed and not graded from a TPG!

 

Barcodes were invented in the early 1970's. The first item to be scanned was a pack of Wrigley's gum if memory serves from whatever history channel show I learned it from. I believe that pack of gum now resides in the Smithsonian.


This freakin auction is so stupid it's kinda awesome. It's like what? What an I looking at here, what am I buying some souvenir evidence bag from the museum that alcatraz has become filled with some generic slabs. Who buys this stuff it's like common sense just goes out the window these 20 buyers

 

That's my thought exactly!! Who are these morons buying this stuff? If they have so much money to just throw away, why not just give it to me?