Ebay scammed BEWARE.

There is a seller under the tag tpqcollect that has been listing some higher end US coins the last few weeks. I purchased one of these coins and received only photographs of the item and not the item itself.

http://www.ebay.com/usr/tpqcollect?_trksid=p2047675.l2559

I called eBay and they have already opened the claim for me, but I have no idea how the seller will respond and what powers they have. Has this happened to anyone else?

I understand that eBay generally always sides with the buyer as a recent thread involving the peso indicated but I hope that I will be covered in this case...

 

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What so called item did you buy from him? Link to the auction?

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/381137006557?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2648&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Should have included this in the OP.

 

Must be a hijacked account, 1700+ feedback and now this?

 

Yeah it is really bizarre. He obviously scammed a lot of other people. 43 negatives in the last month. The coin I won pales in the comparison to the thousands spent by other sellers. He had a lot of tough date Morgans and high end gold, most selling no reserve with 1 day auctions. Which I understand should be a red flag but sometimes people are just silly and like to give things away. Not the case here...

 

I don't know for sure, but this seller was already discussed on the PCGS & NGC forums.

Chris

 

An 86% feedback rating is certainly a red flag for me.

 

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=936725

 

"The poster sizes for the sale of this lot may vary,but approximately are two hundred ten millimeters on two hundred ninety seven millimeters.Topq,inc does not accepts no liability for any delay and/or failure in executing bids,or any errors contained in bids due to internet nature.Purchases must be paid in full within five days of the end of the auction."

Gots to read the 'fine print' but there's definitely deception afoot......

 

The item description is vague, but if you read it all the way down, it does say that you are buying a print/poster. It's an old trick on eBay and was once featured on Judge Judy where the plaintiff/buyer won a refund. IIRC, it was a picture of a cell phone.

 

Also...look at the categories...yikes...listed in both...

• Art
• >
• Art from Dealers & Resellers
• >
• Posters

• Coins & Paper Money
• >
• Coins: US
• >
• Other

 

Obviously it is now. It was 100% when he started his scamming though

 

Refigure your rate before this batch of negatives. He would have had high 90%.

This is a hijacked account that the scammer found and then listed all these coins and sent off pictures on. If you were bidding on these, he wouldnt have had the negatives yet and no red flags, thats whats scary.

 

I didn't see it until after the fact but what a mess he is going to have trying to straighten this out.

 

I got scammed for 40 bucks when I tried to buy from this guy. he said they were authentic baseball cards and I shelled out 40 bucks. The ones I received were fakes and he posted the same auction again with the same picture as last time a few days later. I got to report this guy.

 

Here's another angle; that huge blurb of text is surely copyrighted, and a seller using it is violating the copyright laws, a Federal offense.

I went to that blurb and selected 6 consecutive lines at random out of the middle, and plugged them into Google. They show up AT LEAST a dozen times for various coin dealers and coin-selling situations. I don't have time to look at all those, but it would appear the scam was widespread, "infecting" many transactions, not just eBay.

 

Duplicate message, sorry.

 

And the images that he is using for these posters are also copyrighted.

 

this is why we the ebay users all pay the price for scum like this

 

Has paypal Ebay refunded you yet?