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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chopswell, post: 778081, member: 22496&quot;]<b>Ccgs coins on ebay - cameo coin grading svc...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to alert you guys to what I&#039;m &quot;FEELING&quot; could be a major scam on eBay.&nbsp; I was reading your posts about CCGS and at the time those posts were written, it wasn&#039;t this new guy &quot;CAMEO COIN.&quot;&nbsp; 1st, check out this auction on eBay.&nbsp; A beautiful 1883-S Morgan.&nbsp; Look at his NO RESERVE opening bid and his Buy It Now.&nbsp; We&#039;re talking opening bid that&#039;s 1/10th the BIN with NO RESERVE!&nbsp; <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180451947792" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180451947792" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180451947792</a></p><p><br /></p><p>He runs ALL his auctions as &quot;PRIVATE&quot; and every one of his coins are in these cameo coin grading service holders, which I&#039;ve NEVER heard of.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my concern.&nbsp; I bought a 1903-O Morgan from one of those chinese people as a GIFT for my brother, who collects Morgans.&nbsp; It was one he wanted badly and even though I knew it would say &quot;replica,&quot; I asked the seller if he could stamp that on the reverse of the coin, instead of the obverse, like in the auction.&nbsp; The chinese guy wrote me back and told me he would be HAPPY to not stamp replica!!&nbsp; In fact, he sent me a link I no longer have, that showed these gorgeous BU coins that he went on to say that for ONLY $200, he would make me ANY SILVER COIN and it would be of correct composition, dimension and meticulous detail that he even guaranteed it would pass ANY authentication.&nbsp; ONLY $200!!!&nbsp; So my concern here is (by the way, the 1903-O came WITHOUT replica and cost me a whole $4.00, including shipping.&nbsp; Size was right on...and detail was VG, but composition wasn&#039;t)&nbsp; my concern is if this guy in China finds an unscrupulous person in the US willing to pay $200 per GEM BU coin and the buyer here (in this case, Boston) knows they likely would NOT get authenticated by the &#039;big 4,&#039; so he creates his own grading co, slabs them and offers them, like in this case, <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180451947792" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180451947792" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=180451947792</a>, for an opening bid 1/10th of the BIN and NO RESERVE!</p><p><br /></p><p>Something&#039;s definitely fishy here.&nbsp; I certainly haven&#039;t the means to do anything about this.&nbsp; I&#039;m POOR.&nbsp; But, I know many of you guys are NOT and also don&#039;t like this kind of stuff even worse than I do!</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I used a stamp die and punched &#039;copy&#039; on the reverse of the coin I was giving to my brother!</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope my concerns aren&#039;t a waste of your times and I just felt a true need to bring this to someone&#039;s attention who MAY be able to dig and discover and if this guy is a fake, that he be stopped in his tracks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of you may have seen me around on eBay in the past.&nbsp; I&#039;m the coinclocks guy.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t been on since August because I basically fell victim to very hard times, what with my wife being disabled and me unable to work to care for her....We tried to make it, but fell short.&nbsp; I&#039;m still passionate about coins and if anyone would ever want one of my clocks, please email me and I&#039;ll show you a FREE, working example online....I just can&#039;t accept PayPal.&nbsp; It would have to be a check or money order.&nbsp; Here...Here&#039;s one I just did so you can see what I&#039;m talking about!&nbsp; <a href="http://coinclocks1.fileave.com/1890%20FLASH.swf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinclocks1.fileave.com/1890%20FLASH.swf" rel="nofollow">http://coinclocks1.fileave.com/1890 FLASH.swf</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; you can send me a note to <a href="mailto:mike@customclox.com">mike@customclox.com</a> and I prefer to use collector&#039;s own coin images.&nbsp; I don&#039;t plagiarize images.&nbsp; Sorry about the sales pitch people.&nbsp; I wish you all a happy and successful 2010!</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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