I'm not going to bother to post the photos, link is below. 3 sold already. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1884272752...lp:2332490&itmmeta=01KSNR731P2DV3R3HZ66EFGKNS
LOL.... It's a sad state of affairs when a collector has ZERO common sense. Don't try and lowball me bro, I know what I got.
The sad part? 3 or more people got ripped off. Probably not even silver. Spot silver would cover the loss. Then these clueless people will resell it to more even more clueless people. None of them the wiser. Blind leading the blind, and that's where the real travesty begins.
Knowingly facilitating the sale of counterfeit numismatic items is a federal crime, and at this point ebay is blatant about it. I bet it would be one line of code to pass in the denomination, year, mint, and claimed grade to a query, look up the price guide, and automatically flag any listings less than a certain percentage of actual value. Back when I was at the top of my game, I bet I could code, test and implement such a query in half an hour. Ebay just refuses to do anything like that. Here we have a buy now listing from a 0 feedback seller that's less than a tenth of a % of actual value, and I'm certain if you reported it, ebay would say there's nothing wrong.
I reported with the following: "This is a $100,000 coin if real being sold for $70, and this seller supposedly has 15 of them? All of this seller's listings are clearly counterfeit. Ebay is knowingly facilitating the sale of counterfeits by allowing this garbage, which is a violation of federal law." We all know what the response will be...
"What happened: We looked into your report and didn’t find the listing to be in violation of our policy. This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence." Criminal. This took 23 minutes after my report. I bet there's a timer set on these report responses to make it appear that they actually gave it some thought.
I see a lot of people complaining about ebay on militaria forums. Either fake stuff like this or people charging absurd prices and/or not identifying the item correctly. Like for example m1 helmets like this one. it's just a typical early 80s m1 that's worth about 50 to 60 dollars. Yet there's so many on ebay being sold as"ww2" or Vietnam " because people can't be bothered to spend even just 20 minutes of research so they can spot the OBVIOUS differences. And when they are correctly identified there usually 100$+. Anyways sorry about getting slightly off topic but this stuff irks me to no end.
I think I may put my irk to rest and just cancel my ebay account altogether. I can't stop them from committing fraud. I can't stop the ignorant and foolish from being defrauded. I don't trust the sellers (even though I know many are legitimate and honest, but it's so hard to tell). I don't sell because I don't trust the buyers. So, I'm strongly considering ebye-bye.
You really can't fight the AI and criminal element, you just have to go in with a caveat emptor attitude and a little bit of knowledge. Even then, you can get burned. I collect a very narrow subset of the coin world so that is an advantage over the newbies. But they are going to sour very quickly and is horrible for the hobby.
And those buyers are undoubtedly scammers themselves, who will go to craigslist or FB or whatever and make up a story about grandpa's coin and how they really need the money.
This is why I never trust the coins I see at flea markets or antique stores. Even if the seller is honest they may not realize that the coin is fake. I could see someone thinking they got an incredible deal and trying to make money by resale. Though I guess if you're buying something low value like wheat cents it won't matter as much.
