Tonight's eBay "rules are for the little people"...

MILLION DOLLAR MORGAN COLLECTION, 5 SILVER COINS!

...from everyone's favorite basement slabber, aboncom (also known as SGS).

Let's look carefully at this listing:

1. No, they aren't silver. They're base metal with a very poor-quality silver plating.
2. No, they aren't Morgans. They're copies. You know, the things that you and I -- the "little people" -- aren't allowed to list on eBay any more.
3. I have a set of these that came with a lot of actual coins. They look incredibly crummy. They really have to be seen to be believed.
4. Despite all this, there were at least two bidders who thought the lot was worth more than $400, and several more who bid well above the $20 or so that these when for when it was legal to list them on eBay.

Despite the dreck they sell, aboncom maintains a 99% positive feedback score. They're averaging around 8 negatives and 5 neutrals per month, but close to 900 positives. I suppose this does prove one thing: there sure are a lot of happy fools shopping on eBay.

 

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Wow. I wonder if the buyer thinks they're worth a million dollars.

 

I checked out his listings. I would have bought the 8 inch cast iron skillet, but it wasn't slabbed.

 

Good move, it was probably a zinc counterfit.

 

LOL soooo SGS is still at it. A million bucks, LOL.

 

I know the saying " A fool and his money are soon parted " but I feel back for the guy that paid $ 400 + for those .

 

Good Lord, somebody paid $430 for that box of scrap.

 

This negative cracks me up lol.

"Any thinner and they would have been see thru. Missing nearly 3 oz of weight."
For a roll of 40 Barber quarters

 

And he sure buys a lot of batteries.....from the same people....and frequently. I think he is a feedback exchanger.

 

I wouldn't be a bit surprised. On the other hand, it looks like they sell more in a week or two than I've sold in my entire life, so I can see why eBay would think it in their interest to look the other way.

 

If you look at the two bidots this is the reason you use a sniper program. If feedback 367 used a sniper he would of won at 185.

 

Well, he does state "silver clad" in the description. Also, he uses the terminology "mirror image", double talk for "copy". However, this is misleading, as a true mirror image would be reversed. Nowhere in his description do I see reference to a "copy" stamp." Did your set have the "copy" stamp?

Why this "set" sold for $430 can only be answered by the bidders, and it appears there was probably a bidding war (with 39 total bids).

 

I would liked to have seen the buyers reaction when he opens the package realizes these are fakes....absolute junk you could probably find at a flea market for $5.

 

"Tribute" is a common weasel-word as well. These are a "tribute" to the originals in the same sense that American Flag floormats are a "tribute" to our country.

The copy stamp is on the reverse. I'll see if I can find them and post a pic -- they're really hideous.

I'll give the seller one thing, though -- he does offer a 14-day return.

 

I'd honestly be curious if the buyer even realized they were fakes after getting them....

 

Look for them on eBay with a BIN of $1,000,000.

 

Yep... sell your fakes on eBay by calling them "tribute" coins, and bypass eBay's "no-no" policy on replicas.

 

Can I get religious and say "Oh My God!"

The bidders obviously took a time out from watching CoinVault or HSN to bid on this stuff!

 

My favorite on the feedback is someone who bought an "authentic" Morgan dollar and then complained that it was the worst case of overgrading he had seen.