I love to look at currency and also love errors. I hate when anyone on ebay has for sale a made up error and they don't inform the people bidding on it. I usually write a note to them saying it was done outside of the BEP. I really hope they get the message. Right now 6 people are bidding on it. Sorry I was angry and forgot to get the person who was selling them.
I see this often on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2001-1-FRN-...426?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460b9b186a True collectors educate themselves from bogus listings like these.
I used to get worked up about these things also and send a note to the sellers. Usually I did not get a response. Once in a while I was the bearer of bad news because the seller was the one who got taken because they bought it as a misrepresented error (at least that is what they claimed). In the end I stopped sending the sellers messages since it did not appear to do any good. I believe someone wrote an Ebay guide warning about these things. In cases like this I blame the buyers for their ignorance (especially since the information is readily available) as much as the seller for their greed. One approach I tried with a seller who listed a questionable note was to tell them that I intended to bid on one of their other items but was reluctant to do so because of the questionable listing. That seller did respond and removed the questionable item after we exchanged a few emails in which I explained why the questionable note was a fake overprint (it was one of those German notes overprinted for a concentration camp).
I see that a lot. For the benefit of those who don't know, serial numbers that start with "99" are reserved for uncut sheets, so this note was hand cut by someone intentionally off-center to create a supposed cutting error (but is not a true error since the cutting was done post-BEP).
