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<p>[QUOTE="70bronco, post: 817398, member: 23539"]hello everyone Im new here and pretty new to the coin collecting world but I've been on ebay for a few years and I stumbled on this guy the other day when I was searching US coins ending soonest here is one auction he has up now</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&campid=5335874456&toolid=10001&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D190373900664%26ssPageName%3DSTRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&campid=5335874456&toolid=10001&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D190373900664%26ssPageName%3DSTRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190373900664&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>In the past few days he has ended a bunch like it . If you look at his feedback he has set his auctions to private so you can't see the items in his feedback page just a lot of positive sounding comments.</p><p><br /></p><p> At the rate he is going he should be in the low hundreds in a few months . If he were to stop selling and let 90 days elapse , then run a bunch of legit auctions and complete them perfectly with his feedback now set to not be private, so he was showing 5 stars everywhere wouldn't he be well positioned to then post some phony gold coin auctions and walk away a few 1000 dollars richer?</p><p><br /></p><p> What I don't understand is that if you look at his buyers I'm not seeing a pattern . I mean that they don't immediately seem like they are scammers themselves so whats the connection?</p><p><br /></p><p> Either they are in on the scam or they aren't but if they arent why did they bid on pennies that don't appear special? Or are these pennies are special in some way and I just don't see why?</p><p><br /></p><p> Its not like he has made any effort to make the listings jump out at you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="70bronco, post: 817398, member: 23539"]hello everyone Im new here and pretty new to the coin collecting world but I've been on ebay for a few years and I stumbled on this guy the other day when I was searching US coins ending soonest here is one auction he has up now [URL="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&campid=5335874456&toolid=10001&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D190373900664%26ssPageName%3DSTRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT"]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190373900664&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT[/URL] In the past few days he has ended a bunch like it . If you look at his feedback he has set his auctions to private so you can't see the items in his feedback page just a lot of positive sounding comments. At the rate he is going he should be in the low hundreds in a few months . If he were to stop selling and let 90 days elapse , then run a bunch of legit auctions and complete them perfectly with his feedback now set to not be private, so he was showing 5 stars everywhere wouldn't he be well positioned to then post some phony gold coin auctions and walk away a few 1000 dollars richer? What I don't understand is that if you look at his buyers I'm not seeing a pattern . I mean that they don't immediately seem like they are scammers themselves so whats the connection? Either they are in on the scam or they aren't but if they arent why did they bid on pennies that don't appear special? Or are these pennies are special in some way and I just don't see why? Its not like he has made any effort to make the listings jump out at you.[/QUOTE]
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