eBay seller of fakes, garata999

This guy is on FORVM's notorious fake seller list, so he is known. eBay never does anything about the complaints - he continues to sell with impunity, no negative feedback. Not a single coin is authentic, and not one is described as a replica.

The best we can do is just warn each other of these things. I hope none of you are bidding on his items...

garata999 on eBay SELLER OF FAKES

 

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Wow. Those are egregious fakes.

 

It's hard for me to believe any serious collector would fall for those. They're awful!

 

People should know better than to buy from certain countries where it is illegal to sell antiquities! Even if they were genuine one would potentially open a can of worms nobody would wish to.

 

A general rule is try not to bid on listings that have the bidders private no matter how tempting...

 

yikes, one of those turds its way to the 300 dollar mark.

 

Man I wish I could be that careless with my spending money. Those auctions are like watching the Yankees in the early aughts...

 

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=106674.0

already on both lists

 

Shouldn't be a huge surprise, since the "gentleman" is "from Bulgaria."

 

As a rule I just won't buy from anyone in Bulgaria or Ukraine. It's prejudice, I know, but I'm good with it.

 

I wonder if there is some way to sue eBay as complicit in fraud. They have been told about fakes offered by, for example, Saxbys-coins, a notorious fakeseller, hundreds of times and they do nothing. Saxbys-coins recently sold this fake Balbinus aureus for 3,550 GBP.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272216407420

54 bids! Some sucker really got taken and eBay lets it happen. Does eBay have the right not to act on information about fraud?

If you bid on eBay, until you know the seller, always look at "Seller's other items" (to see them all you need to click on "Item location" "worldwide" on the left or many items may not show up) for obvious fakes and at least follow the lists of fakesellers, for example,

http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/fakesellers.html

or

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=18502.0

So, who among you is a lawyer and could tell if eBay is culpable?

 

ahahaha ... egregious

a) I thought it was kinda funny that I had to look-up another word (however, I love edjucatin' myself so I was happy as a clam)

b) I found it funny/odd/interesting that the word seemed to have two opposite meanings (cool/odd ... eh?)

https://www.google.ca/search?q=egregious definition&oq=egregious&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.1568j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


Ummm, or did Friday night stevex6 miss a beat?

 

I guess "flagrant" or "noticeable" is what you're talkin' bout, eh Willis?



=> thanks for the new word (I'm gonna use it in a sec)

 

Technically eBay is profiting from criminal fraud. So if there isn't a law against that, there should be.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Septimius-S...734803?hash=item3f61eb1093:g:CGAAAOSwMVFXIJpf
I don't know. I REALLY would like a Septimius Severus with VICTORIA OTHONIS reverse! Who knows, maybe while adopting himself into the lines of Pertinax and Aurelius, Septimius might have wanted a 12 Caesar grandaddy??? Wow!!!

 

Is there a list of these countries (where it's illegal to sell antiquities) somewhere online? I know Turkey is on the list (I went coin hunting in Istanbul once, and learnt the hard way :/)

 

Incredible!

But it does seem that anyone 'bidding' is actually trying to buy a fake or a 'gag-coin'.

Yet no mention of it anywhere as JA states....eBay should be held accountable. Hmmm, Where's @Sallent when you need him????

 

eBay does occasionally act. I reported a German guy whose store included several common coins attributed as extremely rare emperors like Sebastianus, Julius Nepos, Romulus Augustus etc. He was shut down.

 

shame....wish ebay would do something. I sell there loads and its great, but these con men do nothing to help us sellers of genuine coins. I also think the better the grade of genuine coin you sell on ebay the worse off you are as they can be mistaken for modern copies as they are so good!!

 

From his feedback:
"Nice coin, Thanks ( maybe let people know all your coin are replica's)"