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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;guanelid, post: 512990, member: 16988&quot;]A few hours ago I started a thread (<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t47224/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t47224/">www.cointalk.com/forum/t47224/</a>) about a 1796 dollar on eBay that I thought was a fake.&nbsp; The thread got lots of response in a very short time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it appears the seller is no longer selling any items on eBay (a few hours ago he had about five auctions for early coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>Immediately after the auction of the fake 1796 dollar, I telephoned eBay and alerted them that it was a possible fake. They said they would turn it over to their new fraud division, and thanked me. I asked them if they would let me know what happened, and they said they couldn&#039;t due to privacy policies. They said I should check the seller&#039;s page from time to time. That was at about 4:00 p.m. PST. It&#039;s now about 8:30 PST, and he&#039;s no longer selling anything.&nbsp; It seems they shut him down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know exactly what this means, and it&#039;s probably only a temporary victory until he opens a new account or they let him start selling again. But it&#039;s a start.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to all of you who responded to my original thread, letting me know I wasn&#039;t crazy to suspect that this was a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>I encourage any of you who have information about this seller (windy-cove-antiques) to report it to eBay.&nbsp; The responses to the thread disclosed some interesting information about where the seller got that fake and the others he was selling and had sold.&nbsp; The more information eBay has, the more difficult it will be for this guy to continue to do this, especially if eBay will pass on information to appropriate law enforcement or prosecution authorities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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