eBay Coin Seller Cautionlist - a coin buyer's friend

That feeling you get when you see a counterfeit eBay coin getting bids - or selling? You report it to eBay, and their AI says "nope, nothing wrong here!" (Maybe they do take the listing down... but then the coin pops up later?)

From this was born the eBay Seller Cautionlist. It's live on GroovyCoins.com/cautionlist-view.

Two parts make it work:
1. You and I report suspicious listings (with a link to, and photo from, the listing). A moderator reviews the report and approves it.
2. You and I load the eBay Coin Seller Cautionlist plugin in our Edge, Firefox, or Chrome browsers.

The app cannot scrape the eBay links and images for you, as that is against eBay's Terms. But it's pretty easy to submit - just type in the required info, paste the URL into the "eBay Listing URL" field, save the most egregious image from the listing in your local file and then drag-drop it into the "Coin Image" field on the form.

When browsing to a listing on eBay.com from a seller who's previously been listed (by our community!) and approved for inclusion (by an empowered admin), then you'd see the word FLAGGED by the seller's name. This gives you information, which you may choose to use in your buying/bidding decisions (but it won't make any decisions for you!) Clicking on the FLAGGED box will take you to the list, if you want to know more about why it was flagged. Note that for closed listings you may have to click "See original listing" to see the FLAGGED username.

Give it a try! Feedback welcome on this post, or via the site here.

-Sean

 

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I was trying to find some reference to an extra digit on the edge of a 2008 D James Monroe dollar I have and was amazed at people charging up to $1,000.00 for upside down lettering on these dollars, which as we all know is normal (A&B positions). Hard to believe no one is trying to get these taken down.