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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silverlock, post: 3245545, member: 98181&quot;]I just did a series of posts on this topic, but let’s step through this seller as an example of how to evaluate an eBay seller:</p><p><br /></p><p>Check feedback as ancient coin seller. Only 78 of the 492 positive feedbacks are as seller. Some of those are from US/world coins, so this seller actually has fewer than 70 positive reviews.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who gave those reviews?</p><p><br /></p><p>a***r = a***e = e**i. 22 of this bidder’s 30 items in the last month are from this seller. Either this bidder loves this seller, or this is a shill account. I’d ignore this bidder’s feedback. Note also the frequent name changes. Without digging any deeper this seller only has 50 positive feedbacks as an ancient coin seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’d be done with this seller right here, but let’s keep going.</p><p><br /></p><p>Check recent sale feedback. Item 263997834680 was won by none other than a***r. He was up against:</p><p><br /></p><p>k***a bid on 3 items in the past 30 days, all from this seller.</p><p>l***u bid on 1 item in the past 30 days, from this seller.</p><p>o**3 bids on Dolls and Bears. Only coin bid on was this seller’s. Hmmm.</p><p>h**i bid on 3 items in the past 30 days, 1 or 2 from this seller (I didn’t bother checking which)</p><p><br /></p><p>That auction was almost exclusively between buyers who only bid on a few items in the past 30 days, and all just so happen to be from this seller. That’s some amazing customer base he has there. Plus the bidder name changes. Bad sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photos not useful for identifying fakes. Bad sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins for sale - the Drachma Of Alexander The Great is a fourree, and not described as such. The base metal core is visible even in the crappy photo. Bad sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins for sale - The Julia Paula looks like a cast? Can’t tell due to photo quality. Bad sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>No returns. Bad sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s enough. Even a cursory look screams AVOID![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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