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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 76357, member: 669&quot;]IMHO warning flag #1 is the hyped up headline. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Warning flag #2 is the appearance of his item.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Warning flags #3-4 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> are found <a href="http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=dg7679&amp;Dirn=Received+by" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=dg7679&amp;Dirn=Received+by" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt; by clicking here &lt;&lt;</a> and noticing <ul> <li>that he has almost no repeat buyers, and</li> <li>he has a relatively high number of negs</li> </ul><p></p><p>Warning flags #5-7 are found <a href="http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackFromBuyers" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackFromBuyers" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt; by clicking here &lt;&lt;</a>, <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-ROMAN-COIN-WITH-CEASAR_W0QQitemZ8339563194QQcategoryZ4734QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-ROMAN-COIN-WITH-CEASAR_W0QQitemZ8339563194QQcategoryZ4734QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt; here &lt;&lt;</a> <a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdg7679QQhtZ-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdg7679QQhtZ-1" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt; and here &lt;&lt;</a> to see that coins are &quot;not his thing&quot; and he&#039;s not a likely source to authenticate a 16th century coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>(I&#039;m not saying that I have listed <i>all</i> the flags, or that they are in order of importance - just that they&#039;re the ones I saw first, in order of sighting.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line - one, or even two warning flags aren&#039;t necessarily enough to walk away from an auction, but <i>this</i> is one for which I would use the 20&#039; pole I keep for things where a 10-footer is too short. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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