Counterfeit flowing hair dollar

out of curiosity i did a google search and pretty much found the exact thing or very darn similar on Etsy and a place called Temu, i am sure there are others but those two topped the search page it's places like these that are ruining the hobby.

 

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I think it's the other way around -- if you end-early an auction that has bids, without cancelling the bids first, it's considered a sale to the highest bidder. At least, that's the way it used to be.

 

seller replied back to me saying he didn't know lol and also that Ebay ended the auction saying it was a replica and must be relisted as so.

 

I reported it.

 

Interesting, given that their current policy forbids replica coins outright.

 

Temu is very like Amazon, except if you look at a specific page advertised with such a coin , in the top right side you can see the actual (smaller separate name) company that is selling through Temu, which is the distributor that mails to the US Free to buyer and Pays US taxes ( which is likely part of the Chinese merchant payment to be listed. Any such purchase can be returned for free usually for 90 days if they haven't been altered. I have purchased tools, shoes ,shirts, art supplies,LED lights, and some of the fake coins to see comparisons. Usually about $2 each. Some are thin coated with silver and will show positive for some chemical tests( Not XRF though). I have bought several Terabyte SSD drives in their "lightning ( 1 hr to buy)special" for $35 and run tests for 3 days with all OK. They sell in some US companies still for over a $100. Temu has huge storage depots in both the US East and West as orders usually arrive in 2-3 days. When they arrive even a day late, they give you $5.00 Credit, which does help keep one interest.
Jim

 

If an eBay seller even sells only 1 of 10 such listing, they will be sitting pretty. If someone actually thought this was a real USA made coin, I still have a deed for one acre of the Moon and will give a great deal !!! But I don't think eBay allows that.
Jim

 

How about naming a new Star? Do they allow that?

 

Way off-thread, but make sure you're running a test that FILLS THE DRIVE with NON-REPEATED data. The standard scam with these is to report a huge size, but only include a small amount of storage. It all works fine until your files exceed the true capacity, at which point it starts silently overwriting old data.

There are test programs that claim to check for this, but I haven't tried any of them. Just be aware that that $35 price point is pretty close to what the scam drives sold for (and still sell for) on Amazon.

 

I do have an "Old" Name star I bought as a Christmas gift for a Aunt 40 years ago who is now deceased and since all her possessions came to us legally, its ours but light years away!

 

This is the check program I use. If you use one, I would like to know which one.
This program was free. Thanks Jim

 

By the way, the coin show in San Diego was very nice. I said Hello to the Penny Lady and a few others I knew. The weather and freeway was great ( little traffic). There were no real deals on silver and gold as the prices were proportionally much higher than a week ago. Jim

 

I can't be much help here, because I use Windows only for work, and I use only the hardware they issue to me on that machine.

If I were trying to test a drive I'd gotten for myself, I'd copy a few hundred GB of photos onto it, then spot-check throughout to make sure none show up corrupted. (You can't trust just a directory listing, and I don't think you can trust what Crystal tells you -- it just relays what the drive is telling it, which for fake drives is usually lies.)

I seem to remember that maybe I did get burned on a CF card ages ago, where I found that my camera started corrupting earlier images as I took photos past the card's actual physical capacity. Or maybe that was a card that I misformatted; I don't remember any more. In any event, the only way I could tell was by storing lots of stuff onto it, then realizing that older stuff was getting corrupted.