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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fretboard, post: 688988, member: 19765&quot;]I agree with you totally!!&nbsp; One of the problems is coins are just a small part of the money that ebay pulls in.&nbsp; If ebay did only coins they would have been put out of business a long time ago.&nbsp; Some Chinese criminals&nbsp; have been making counterfeits for alot of years as it&#039;s legal over there.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t only happen in the coin industry either.&nbsp; Also it doesn&#039;t just affect the American market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese criminals are an interesting group b/c they don&#039;t care who they burn or what merchandise they have to use.&nbsp; They make Chinese counterfeits as well as other coinage.&nbsp; American coinage is very popular thus the masses of counterfeits being made, supply and demand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately we will have to deal with this another way because although ebay is aware of it, the Chinese are small potatoes in their book.&nbsp; Ebay does occasionally boot someone off of their site but I have only heard of one actual arrest that ebay was involved in.&nbsp; An occasional kicking somebody off of ebay means they just get a new computer and Paypal account, no big problem there.&nbsp; I heard of one arrest and conviction recently and that was the Canadian&nbsp; counterfeiter and seller of rare or scarce coins.&nbsp; It was so long ago I forget the specifics but from what I remember Ebay helped Canadian law enforcement with that bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, the best we can do is what we are doing now.&nbsp; Once in awhile someone on this forum will see a fake on ebay and a couple of members will send messages to the seller.&nbsp; This is very effective, I think.&nbsp; Anyone remember coingirl or coingal the seller of that fake 1921 Mercury dime a couple weeks ago?&nbsp; I wonder what happened to her sleazy duff?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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