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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2004779, member: 27832&quot;]I used to view that as a positive sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a run-in with a seller who was listing a large number of very poor-quality counterfeits, mostly of commemorative halves:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-help-stop-these-ebay-counterfeit-auctions.249020/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-help-stop-these-ebay-counterfeit-auctions.249020/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-help-stop-these-ebay-counterfeit-auctions.249020/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ebay-safety-return-policy-and-a-counterfeit.248045/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ebay-safety-return-policy-and-a-counterfeit.248045/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ebay-safety-return-policy-and-a-counterfeit.248045/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>After several users left negative feedback about counterfeits, he took his FB private (which prevented him from selling). After a month or so, he came back -- with most of that feedback wiped from his profile!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s possible that it was All A Big Misunderstanding -- but a <i>very</i> Big one, as he sold <i>dozens</i> of <i>obvious</i> fakes -- and that now he&#039;s selling only 100% legitimate coins. They&#039;re still mostly commems, though, and I wouldn&#039;t trust him as far as I could throw eBay&#039;s entire operations center. I don&#039;t trust that the photos he is posting are the coins he&#039;s actually shipping; I don&#039;t trust his buyers to know whether they&#039;re getting real coins, and <b>I don&#039;t trust them to leave negs if they <i>do</i> get fakes</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why wouldn&#039;t they leave a negative for a fake? Well, all the guy&#039;s auctions say this:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And, judging from what I&#039;ve seen on eBay <i>and</i> in discussions on CoinTalk, a lot of people will say &quot;well, he sent me a fake, but he was apologetic and gave me a refund right away, so I shouldn&#039;t leave a neg or a neutral.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In some &quot;should I leave negative feedback&quot; discussions, I come across as a bit of a hard-nose. This is why. By nature, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt; in fact, I left a neutral, not a negative, for the fake this seller sent me. But I&#039;ve come to realize that I&#039;m contributing to the problem by not negging habitual fake sellers.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, as I&#039;ve said before, <b>eBay no longer takes counterfeit coin reports seriously</b>. People are selling fakes for months on end, I&#039;m filing reports, and nothing is changing. You&#039;ll still be covered by Buyer Protection if you get a fake <i>and catch it in time</i> -- but don&#039;t expect eBay to shut the seller down. Not any more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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