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<p>[QUOTE="Dillan, post: 3088334, member: 90539"]Ebay will not get the police involved if they are asked. They will not get involved until they are made to do it by the law. If they would, it may be a lot easier to stop these people. I am sure that many may have tried in the past , but there was a pawn dealer that was busted a few months back for selling fake crap. Until people approach the law, sweet nothing will be done. Just because people have tried in the past is no reason to look beyond and blow it off.</p><p>The seller is going to offer to give the cash back , and most likely tell the buyer to keep the coins as some type of gift? eBay is the problem , they know whats going on , and they refuse to stop it. The only way is to get the FTC involved, the Auction Regulation Board, FBI , who ever. Phoning and complaining to eBay has not yielded many results in the past. One place however that does take this serious is the USPS because this is mail fraud. If a complaint is made through the Post Office fraud division they get down to business, and seem to get things happening. People like this are destroying what is a great hobby , but after you get burned the passion for the hobby disappears.There is a slight chance that the odd seller is not aware , but in this case of bait and switch it looks like it was an intentional ripoff. The auction companies blame it on the seller, and are adamant that they are not responsible in anyway what so ever. Not just eBay, most auctions run the same game. Their excuse is that they only supply the platform for the sellers to work on . Try calling the State Attorney office in the area where it was sold from. It is not easy to get the law involved , but you have to try just the same. I am writing this from experience from getting ripped off on Proxibid for 4k . Something that I do like like to admit but I got suckered because of the information provided by the auction house about the authenticity of certain items. Thanks everyone for letting me voice my opinion . It is not the 20 bucks one person loses it is the 20 dollars that 50 people lose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dillan, post: 3088334, member: 90539"]Ebay will not get the police involved if they are asked. They will not get involved until they are made to do it by the law. If they would, it may be a lot easier to stop these people. I am sure that many may have tried in the past , but there was a pawn dealer that was busted a few months back for selling fake crap. Until people approach the law, sweet nothing will be done. Just because people have tried in the past is no reason to look beyond and blow it off. The seller is going to offer to give the cash back , and most likely tell the buyer to keep the coins as some type of gift? eBay is the problem , they know whats going on , and they refuse to stop it. The only way is to get the FTC involved, the Auction Regulation Board, FBI , who ever. Phoning and complaining to eBay has not yielded many results in the past. One place however that does take this serious is the USPS because this is mail fraud. If a complaint is made through the Post Office fraud division they get down to business, and seem to get things happening. People like this are destroying what is a great hobby , but after you get burned the passion for the hobby disappears.There is a slight chance that the odd seller is not aware , but in this case of bait and switch it looks like it was an intentional ripoff. The auction companies blame it on the seller, and are adamant that they are not responsible in anyway what so ever. Not just eBay, most auctions run the same game. Their excuse is that they only supply the platform for the sellers to work on . Try calling the State Attorney office in the area where it was sold from. It is not easy to get the law involved , but you have to try just the same. I am writing this from experience from getting ripped off on Proxibid for 4k . Something that I do like like to admit but I got suckered because of the information provided by the auction house about the authenticity of certain items. Thanks everyone for letting me voice my opinion . It is not the 20 bucks one person loses it is the 20 dollars that 50 people lose.[/QUOTE]
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