Is this a joke?

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  1. potty dollar 1878

    potty dollar 1878 Well-Known Member

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  3. Treashunt

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  4. Treashunt

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  5. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    A lot of crazy stuff on his sale items


    Something is going on.
     
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  6. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    check out his completed items.

    Something is going on there
     
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  7. MIGuy

    MIGuy Well-Known Member

    Drugs aren't just a river in Queens ;)
     
  8. Matthew Kruse

    Matthew Kruse Young Numismatist

    Money laundering?
     
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  9. MIGuy

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    Not my forte, but that's seems a good possibility, need a lot of volume though I'd think to really make it worthwhile.
     
  10. gronnh20

    gronnh20 Well-Known Member

    Something must of changed, because the Buffalo nickel is the only one over the top. How much were the other two auctions fetching?

     
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  11. JP@

    JP@ Well-Known Member

    All of his crazy high priced sold items have been relisted in the last hour. :cyclops:
     
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  12. MIGuy

    MIGuy Well-Known Member

    Hypothetically of course, I would think with money laundering there's no need to ever deliver an actual item, just an auction record and a record of "payment" for same to launder / legalize the illegal money.

    From Wired -
    1. Fake ebooks and overpriced eBay listings are fronts for digital money laundering
    The proceeds of crime are increasingly laundered online, using methods ranging from improbably expensive ebooks and eBay listings to cryptocurrencies such as ZCash and thousands of micropayments through online transaction systems (The Guardian). Research indicates that around $200 billion is laundered online every year, of a worldwide money laundering total estimated by the UN to be in the region of $2 trillion. Other 'cyberlaundering' tactics for erasing the criminal origins of money include using Uber to book "ghost journeys", booking Airbnb rooms that will never be used and buying and selling expensive, tradeable items in games including FIFA and CounterStrike. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-awake-180518
     
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  15. potty dollar 1878

    potty dollar 1878 Well-Known Member

    The large cents were originally around $600+ with an hour left and the other items were similar,something happened now.
     
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  16. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    Shill bidders bumping up to get suckers to pay way too much?
     
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  17. Mountain Man

    Mountain Man Well-Known Member

    You can drive yourself nuts looking at these kinds of deals.
     
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  18. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Yes something happened because as you said the bid was over $600, but when you look at the bid history now that it's over, it shows 0 bid retractions. So where did that $600 bid go?
     
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