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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 530848, member: 8033&quot;]Gonna play Devil&#039;s advocate here folks.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all, or at least a majority of us, feel that ebay knowingly allows fraud and decetption to occur&nbsp; on the site. It makes money for them and they can hide behind ignorance.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if the &quot;government&quot; was to crack down and ebay AND the fraudulent sellers they&#039;d be opening an even bigger can of worms.</p><p><br /></p><p>What about all of the junk sold on TV? Hoards of Morgan Dollars, &quot;rare&quot; state quarters, things offered by &quot;mints&quot; that have absolutely no affiliation with the &quot;real&quot; mint?</p><p><br /></p><p>Case in point is my purchase at work yesterday. A guy walks in with basically state quarters. His aunt had passed away and left him as executor. Nice guy actually and said his aunt had LOTS of &quot;stuff&quot; laying around that he needed to get rid of.</p><p>We bought the U.S. Mint quarter proof sets but the boss had NO interest in the nicely framed (for hanging) quarter set put out by who knows who.</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy is not an idiot he just wants to dump it and my boss even refuses it when he offers it at face value of the quarters. Now, I&#039;M intererested - I can&#039;t lose. Boss asks me if I want it and I buy it at face value of the quarters, get a nice frame, BU coins in individual holders and even the paperwork.</p><p>Have no clue what I&#039;ll do with it at this point but sure I can get more than I paid and if not I&quot;ll crack them out and spend the darn things.</p><p><br /></p><p>I digress here though. Point is the guy that sold it was in his late 60s. Figure his aunt was probably at least in the late 70&#039;s or 80&#039;s. Watching TV and paying WAY too much for this &quot;rare garbage&quot;.</p><p>&quot;Rare garbage&quot; sellers sell more than coins. Just watch HSN or any other show. Sure there is the occasional deal but most of it is nothing more than overpriced junk with a bunch of hype. Perhaps not blatantly fake but the &quot;values&quot; quoted certainly are.</p><p><br /></p><p>There will always be &quot;snake oil salesman&quot; and they are not just on ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I&#039;d LOVE to see ebay take a huge hit and all of the garbage dealers either put out of business, face criminal charges or both. If that ever happened I&#039;d love to see it spill over to TV as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not holding my breath though.</p><p><br /></p><p>clembo[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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