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<p>[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2075578, member: 59677"]as. I understand it from the post across the street, this was an old account that had been selling coins in the 20$ to 2 thousand dollar range for years with excellent feedback.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the sudden he started selling (apparently) very rare coins in the tens of thousands of dollar range with these carefully written descriptions the turned out to be posters. Since the photos came from Heritage he certainly didn't have the right to be selling the posters either. It definitely smacks of an account takeover. And hopefully eBay does the right thing, but I suspect it will take days or weeks to resolve. unlike the error coins fraud that played out over many months with charles somebody or other, this one happened fairly rapidly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Goes back to the discussion above: you really must read the listing. And if anything smacks of being wrong don't buy. For the kind of coins that you're buying on eBay, it really should be like a bus, there will be another one along in a few minutes or days or weeks or even months. If you're spending the big bucks to buy very expensive one of a kind items maybe eBay is not the place. I know they'd like us to think it is but - if you'll pardon the pun - this is the poster child for why not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2075578, member: 59677"]as. I understand it from the post across the street, this was an old account that had been selling coins in the 20$ to 2 thousand dollar range for years with excellent feedback. All of the sudden he started selling (apparently) very rare coins in the tens of thousands of dollar range with these carefully written descriptions the turned out to be posters. Since the photos came from Heritage he certainly didn't have the right to be selling the posters either. It definitely smacks of an account takeover. And hopefully eBay does the right thing, but I suspect it will take days or weeks to resolve. unlike the error coins fraud that played out over many months with charles somebody or other, this one happened fairly rapidly. Goes back to the discussion above: you really must read the listing. And if anything smacks of being wrong don't buy. For the kind of coins that you're buying on eBay, it really should be like a bus, there will be another one along in a few minutes or days or weeks or even months. If you're spending the big bucks to buy very expensive one of a kind items maybe eBay is not the place. I know they'd like us to think it is but - if you'll pardon the pun - this is the poster child for why not.[/QUOTE]
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