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

Actually, barber quarters can get "incredibly" thin and yet still be readable. The buyer should know this.

 

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Let's see if I can do this from my phone...





Heh. Not great, and not easy, but more than I could do from the iPad...

 

Horrid.

 

You were right , cruddy junk !

 

Not sure why that has anything to do with me finding the feedback humorous. Or the sellers deceptive listing practices; the roll for that particular auction didn't look like a bunch of total slicks in the seller photo's. Which are suppose to represent the the actual item the auctions for. But it certainly wasn't the roll that was sent to the buyer, it's clearly a deceptive 'stock' photo as it's featured in every listing the seller has for 'full roll' of barber quarters.

 

This is not the same seller but along the same lines.http://www.ebay.com/itm/1849-20-TWE...66?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item2c6bc3ec5e
In the item description it's listed as a gold 20 dollar coin:rollling:
You just shake your head. Makes you wonder how some people come up with the money they have to spend on these. Certainly not with their brain power.

 

That one I'd feel more sorry for the new buyers....they probably don't know what they're getting since there certainly isn't any indication it isn't really gold from the descriptions. Don't know if the seller knows it or not.... He only has feedback of 18 so one can guess he may have been a sucker at one point himself....

 

You must be referring to the photo of the "security seal" since the photo's of all the Barber Rolls that I see are completely different coins.

 

At what point do you draw the line between deceptive and shady seller and ignorant and unprepared buyer? To me they are in the same group of people who shouldn't be doing whatever it is they think they are doing.
Guy

 

Well, yes, they certainly are ignorant and unprepared. I certainly can't imagine buying gold coins not knowing where they came from.... But there are a lot of trusting people out there....

 

Someone paid $1175 for that!!!

 

The auction from my original post was taken down after it finished.

I had some correspondence with one of eBay's coin-auction "enforcers"; I won't repost that correspondence here, but the upshot is that sellers this large are somewhat protected from the usual enforcement actions. The usual authorities can't take down one of these auctions themselves; they apparently have to go through the seller's account manager instead.

Meanwhile, the item has been relisted:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MILLION-DOLLAR-MORGAN-COLLECTION-5-SILVER-COINS-/290855518187

Please feel free to report it early and often. If enough people raise enough of a stink about aboncom, perhaps something will change.

 

Reported.

 

it's already up to 5 bids. 3 of the bidders have over 1000 feedback

 

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Taking koinjesters advice

 

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tread lightly with him, as he is sue happy

 

Yea good idea

 

explain this to me, buyforless33 in one of the top feedback leavers for aboncom. buyforless has a crap load of positive feedbacks left for themselves today but has nothing for sale? seems fishy