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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;guanelid, post: 514274, member: 16988&quot;]<b>eBay needs to read the threads on this forum</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday (February 2) I informed eBay via their online reporting system that they should check this forum for a wealth of information about likely fraudulent eBay auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>If eBay takes a careful look at past auctions, as Handsome Toad and others have done, they will find sufficient information that would justify asking certain sellers some hard questions and demanding documented answers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s just one example.&nbsp; In a thread I started on the topic of a fake 1796 dollar offered in an eBay auction by seller windy-cove-antiques (<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t47224/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t47224/">http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t47224/</a>), Handsome Toad posted a link to a November 2008 auction by that same seller of a 1801 dollar coin (<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&amp;item=230307575728" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&amp;item=230307575728" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&amp;item=230307575728</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>In the November auction, windy-cove-antiques used the same story about inheriting the coin from a relative, and repeated the same warning about not knowing if it was real or fake.&nbsp; But in the November auction, he was a bit more honest and stated: &quot;I would say due to the age of the coin i believe it is fake. There is no repelica or copy stamped on the coin, so me and my wife did not know if it was real or not.. So i am selling it as Fake.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was probably still the case that he knew it was fake, but at least he gave warning back in November.&nbsp; But that auction only got to $75.&nbsp; By January, he had a similar pitch about inheriting from a relative and not knowing if it was real or fake, but now he no longer said he believed the coin was a fake.&nbsp; (And when I directly asked him in an email during the auction if he had reason to believe it was fake, all he said was that he didn&#039;t know anything about coins.)&nbsp; Anyway, his change in strategy really paid off.&nbsp; The fake 1796 dollar coin drew a bid of $1825.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Are you listening, eBay?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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