Fake 5oz coins

Report the seller... Especially if he has more for sale.

I got an idea on how to open up the core...

 

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In reference to the hammer and nails no but I drilled it straight through and interestingly it was all white in the middle

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So what do you take from that?

 

It's not copper definitely and it was quite soft to drill through

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So.. It's completely silver?

 

Need to determine what metal it is

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I got it for free

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So to recap. You got a 5oz silver coin, weighed it to find it wasn't right and tested it with acid. You then drilled a hole to find the center looks like silver.

I'm not sure, are you pleased or disappointed? What happens next?

 

I'm with tulipone.

 

Okay, just to make sure I'm following along:

You bought this as a 5-ounce silver coin from eBay.

You weighed it with a scale set for standard ounces, not troy ounces, and found that it weighed more than 5 ounces. (A legitimate 5-ounce silver puck should weight 5.48 standard ounces.)

You decided, based on this mismeasurement and a vague dissatisfaction with its size, that it was a fake.

You reported it as a fake to eBay, and they refunded your money. Meanwhile, you dumped acid on it, drilled a hole in it, and still can't figure out what it is. You didn't try any non-destructive tests besides weighing it -- specifically, you didn't measure it, you didn't check its specific gravity, you didn't do any kind of magnet test.

This really isn't making me itch to start selling stuff on eBay again.

 

Returning to the acid test. I think the colour result comes from the purity of silver (actually I guess, exactly the opposite). I would imagine your test kit would indicate what that shade of brown means?

 

so are you going to melt it into another bar ?

 

I hope that changes pretty soon.

 

I'm sorry, Leeroy, but from where I sit it's starting to look like you may have stolen it. Just because the almighty bought into your rather questionable judgement, this doesn't mean it's a freebie; if you are indeed in the wrong here, someone else, an innocent someone, is suffering an unacceptable loss because of it.

You've made a few otherworldly low moves on ebay that had unacceptable consequences for the other involed party, destroying a good seller's feedback over something that was, in its ENTIRETY your own fault. This running roughshod with your ebay dealings really needs to stop, and if this pending debacle was due to your own ignorance, you need to own up to it, make the seller whole, and eat your own loss. If that means looking at a trashed 5toz round as a reminder to think before acting, so be it.

 

The ethics of this deal escape me entirely.

 

I usually want to blast you for comments like this Books but in this case it may be called for due to this particular circumstance and op's past actions.

Question though, did ebay say he could keep it or the seller. If the seller then the seller knew he is selling fakes and when called out he refunds and tells the buyer to keep it immediately as to not garner further inspection of his business practices. Kinda hard to follow this thread. Are we all sure it's real?

 

With the way that sellers are treated by ebay, I could easily see a seller refunding and telling the buyer to keep it even if it were real just to avoid the hassle and negative feedback. Negative feedback kills sellers.

 

we still want to know if it was real silver ????

 

I'm confused. Bought it on eBay, got your money back. If you find it has a copper core.... what then?

 

Well the person was selling counterfeit items and was kicked off of eBay for selling fraud alert items

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