EBAY SELLER, AT COINS!

As promised. Here is the Ike I picked up from this guy. The first set of images are from his listing. I am in no way advocating buying from him. This will show the incredible difference between what his images portray the coin as and what it really looks like.

His:


What it really looks like in hand.

 

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Looks like the same seller. He just opened a new account. Click the negative feedback. He uses the exact same language as the other account holder to rebut critics. I guess there's nothing violative with having multiple sales accounts but it does seem shady.

 

Shady in deed. At least make them appear different

 

A person can sell their own property anytime they wish. However, no right exists to sell it on a third party such as eBay. eBay can have whatever rules it chooses. Having said that, I agree that AT coins are pretty low on the pecking list of things eBay ought to be worried about -- but apparently isn't. I suppose that if the company wants to have an "anything goes" philosophy, that's its right to do so. But it certainly brings caveat emptor to the forefront.

 

I have no idea how I gave people the impression that I wanted to dictate policy to eBay. I don't. (Although, if I had the opportunity to force them to re-enable negative and neutral feedback from sellers, I might have to wrestle with my principles a bit.)

It does bug me when they claim to prohibit counterfeit coin listings, and then don't stand behind that policy. But this isn't related to that. As I've said before, there's no firm objective definition of "natural" vs. "artificial" toning, and like Duke said, I shudder to think of eBay trying to police the difference.

 

We can hope!

 

That's what I thought!

 

Ah, yes, this seller is polluting the BIN listings again this evening.

I know just enough German to interpret his username as a bilingual question about what he's willing to do to coins -- to which I can only answer, "apparently, ja."

 

Anyone think the ebay id is a reference to this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Fick

 

WOW I never even paid attention to the name that's funny there because it applies.

 

that's what i thought too, but there were bids on some of them
towards the end of the auctions.

 

no matter what some may think, i still would not doubt that
there are laws against what the seller is doing.
ebay makes rules, but they don't make laws.

 

what if sellers were to manipulate photos of coins
to a degree where the coins looked gem but they actually
were not even close to that, and the sellers just left
out that information about the photos. what that be okay too?

 

better question than that. why do you think that
anybody can list items in any manner they choose
and that there are no rules or laws against any of it?

 

if you owned ebay would you ban him?

 

I don't like it but there are some on ebay that do that now.

 

His pictures on eBay don't really look like pictures from a camera but like sketches of some kind. IMO anyway. Maybe a filter of some kind is used?

I am enjoying reading this website and I am learning a lot as well!

 

One of Ebay's largest coin sellers does just that.

Because they can.

 

They look like they were left in the BBQ too long...a little well done!

 

So, how does one artificially tone a coin?