ebay fake http://www.ebay.com/itm/1893-S-Morg...881475?hash=item3abf515483:g:bicAAOSwr7ZW5BJ5 The listing looks the same as the other one, probably the same guy with multiple accounts
If only this crap could be attributed to one person..... unfortunately, that's simply not the case. Any schmo with half a brain and a computer can get their hands on such things these days, so while it could be the same fellow, chances are it's just another in the long line ready and willing to feed the fish. As long as idiots jump on such offerings, we'll continue seeing them, and it is as simple as that.
Yeah... not only is that super fake, but I wouldn't be surprised if nobody actually owns more than 10 1893-S dollars in VF or better.
They're not rare or even scarce, just popular. I cannot speak for the present day, but in the not terribly distant past, I can promise you that at least one person did.
There was an error in the listing.. really? LOL.. at least he made almost $2400.00 selling 15 of them.. suckers
It's unlikely any of these people are making any money off them, as long as we get Ebay to remove them soon enough.
Why would any collectors or buyers pay for something that is too good to be true. Also since Ebay is so big why don't they have anyone be looking out for this kind of junk selling on Ebay ?
They do. It's us, and we work for free. I think there might be an increase in legal liability if they choose to try and actively police the items offered for sale, but I'm not 100% sure. I know there is in the case of "user generated content" online, but I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the nitty gritty details.
The newest revisions to the Hobby Protection Act, signed into law in December 2014, put Ebay squarely in the chain of liability for counterfeit coin sales if they are informed of them and do not act. They are in violation of the Federal Trade Act, subject to FTC sanction. We have the legal teeth to fix this problem right now, yet all we do is wring our hands on the Internet about it. If the words we squander talking about counterfeits in online threads were instead directed to the FTC to get them off their butts and act, Ebay would have devoted sufficient resources to make the problem far less prevalent already. If I seem frustrated at threads like this, now you know why. The solution to forcing Ebay to act is already law.
