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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 827117, member: 13650&quot;]Myself and a few others made threads about this last year.&nbsp;&nbsp; I did a little experiment myself.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I purchased several of the same type of buffalo nickel from 3 separate usernames from China on ebay.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Two packages came after about a month and the third was very slow to get here.&nbsp; They must have thought, &quot;what in the world was I trying to do here?&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Because all 3 packages were the same, coming from the same place in Hong Kong.&nbsp;&nbsp; All the coins exhibited the same problems and flaws, telling me they probably were all made at the same place or at least came from the same source.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I had no written communication with the sellers whatsoever.&nbsp; They were advertised as having replica stamps on them.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t ask for them to leave them off because we had no communication.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; NONE of them came replica stamped, as you can expect.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; IMO, they weren&#039;t that good.&nbsp;&nbsp; They weren&#039;t terrible either. They wouldn&#039;t fool me.&nbsp; But they might fool a beginner or a casual observer.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve stored them in a tube and put a label on it that says: &quot;Replicas&quot;-&quot;Fakes&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t think any dealer would be fooled by them though.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; The pictures I posted in a test on here did end up fooling some people for a while.&nbsp; Others thought something was fishy with the one I posted but were hesitant to call me on it.&nbsp; Which was polite but not necessarily doing me a favor if I had genuinely been ripped off.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Last year one time, just by looking at feedbacks....&nbsp; reading the buyers feedback that was left for the Chinese sellers and then looking on the sell side of those buyer&#039;s accounts, it didn&#039;t take me long to find somebody who had purchased fake, key day IHC&#039;s and was selling them on the sell side as real.&nbsp; &nbsp; Then, the buyer who paid $700 for one of those left a glowing, positive feedback.&nbsp;&nbsp; I contacted him and let him know he got ripped, even though it was several weeks ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; The guy said he found out later and reported him.&nbsp; I think he got his money back so it was ok.&nbsp; But he said thanks for letting him know.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The jerk that sold him the fake was still going about his marry way on ebay.&nbsp; No punishment apparently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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