Clean up in aisle 5!

I didn't know about tineye.com -- very cool. Very useful!

 

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I've seen that happen a lot.

The seller lists the city as Houston, Texas. My backyard.

 

Many moons ago the OP posted in the For Sale forum some links to ebay, but that seller (the OP?) was in Haileah, Florida.

 

Yeah, it seems like a faker just trying to get some attention, and thus higher prices, for his coins.

Well at least this person recognized Coin Talk !! as the place to find coin collectors.

 

They explocitly don’t allow it. Whether or not they enforce it, that is the question.

 

Wouldn't it be limited to when the software came online? I mean if the website started searching the web in 2009 for images it can't go back in time and know that the image posted in 2009 has been in use since 2002. Ya see what I mean? ...

 

https://archive.org/web/
The wayback machine. They also offer an API so you can link the web's past into your own programming.

Jim

 

So there is nothing suspicious about the timeline with the OPs picture. First used in 2014 when she was 21. In 2015 she signs up for CT and uses the photo as an avatar. 4 years later she is 25 as noted in her bio and later this year she will turn 26 which the math works.

 

Three of the posted auctions have been removed by.....eBay?

I just bid on the remaining ones. We'll see what happens.

 

I'm the seller. Thanks Hookman for letting me know about this thread. The reason I mention PCGS catalog numbers is so people know exactly what coin they're bidding for in case they want to easily look it up. That's all. There was no attempt by me to somehow defraud the public. I am new to the hobby and selling because my 102 year old grandmother's hospice care is about $6k a month and needs the extra income. I guess she didn't figure on living this long. I used "not proof like" because I wanted to assure potential buyers that my judgement of the coin was that it would not be PL or DMPL at all. That was my only intent. I did a few and then realized that it was probably not worth it to mention because I had already stated that I was not an expert. I simply didn't want people buying the coins and returning them because of something I wrote in the auction. My intent was not to draw in more bidders by using the word proof.

Three of the auctions were automatically taken down by eBay for "keyword spamming". I figured it was the "proof like" wording, so I took that out and re-listed.

And Mr. johnmilton, I'll let my grandmother know that the collection she started for her son who later died at 17 in a car accident isn't up to snuff. She grew up poor in northeastern Louisiana, went to nursing school in Shreveport, and saved to be able to care for her children. The coins are listed as "uncertified" in the area where more details are given, so I assumed this was all on the up and up, but again, such a huge disappointment to some.

I have had a couple people get mad at me because I clearly stated in my terms that I do not ship to PO Boxes because of fraud I've had to endure when selling other items before. But, they didn't read the terms, bid, and won anyway. It wouldn't surprise me if the young lady who posted was one of those people. To some, when the world doesn't bend to your liking, it's always someone else's fault.

It's funny to me that I've listed so many coins starting well below value but some people have to imagine that there is some malicious intent in the way I've posted on eBay. I'm trying to help the woman who took care of me when I was younger by not overvaluing the coins and getting "fair market value". That's all. I did not go to the "how to post coins" eBay class. Sorry.

 

I absolutely see what you are saying about the limitations and I was specifically pointing out one of them. You just pointed out others as well. We are definately on agreement there.