Its a madhouse!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=525&item=3953616316&rd=1

 

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As the saying goes, "There's a sucker born every minute." and with 36 minutes to go, looks like there's still room for more than the 24 already hooked. Mighty expensive lesson for somebody.

I notice that she cleverly photographed the reverse such that the embedded word "copy" doesn't show.

Well, what's one more Negative FB to her? She obviously doesn't care - she's getting rich.

All the more reason for eBay to require "copy" or "reproduction" in the title and description.

 

EBay obviously doesn't care.
They are making huge sums of money from scams like this.

Anybody want to report this "PowerScrewer" to eBay?
Lots'a luck. LOL

 

That's about about as bad as it can get.. I'm not sure I've ever seen that many Negative feedbacks.

 

I emailed the seller and reported it to eBay. At the point that I looked at the auction, it had 1 second left and was over $1700. Ebay will act on an auction after it is closed, so hopefully they will notify the buyer immediately, before payment. If the auction hadn't been private, I would have notified the bidders myself.

I am going to check the rest of her auctions and report any others that are misleading/scamming. Thanks for posting the auction. I would not have seen it otherwise.

 

I'd be tempted to put a really really high bid on and win it and then just vanish into the woodwork...

She can wait for her payment as long as she likes. Could have a nice ebay account just for that purpose. Ebay can ban the account if they like. But maybe i have a strange sense of humour?

 

Hi Susan,

Your concern is admirable, but I'm afraid your efforts will be in vain.

This seller has been reported more times than Carter has little liver pills.

Oh yeah, just wanted to add that it might not be a good idea to mess with this seller.
She has been known to bid on her enemy's auctions.

 

I don't have any auctions, i don't sell on ebay and i only buy from ebay every once in a blue moon. About once every 4 months.

Anyhow whilst these tyupes are wasting their time with bogus buyers they're not conning unwitting people.

 

I'm not really concerned about her bidding on my auctions. The ID I use to report violations is different than my selling ID (just for that reason). It's worth the effort to me to try to get something done. For the past month, 95% of the auctions I've reported have got results. I don't know why, but I'm not going to question a good thing. Unless she buys under a different ID than her selling ID, she's banned from bidding on my auctions anyway (just as a precaution). Thanks for your concern, though, Jody. It's much appreciated

 

The only problem with this is that, once the ID you use gets banned, so do any other ID's coming from the same IP. The reason the scam artists are able to continue to create new ID's is that they use public domain computers so their ID's are always from a different IP.

 

Well the address is right there. What happens when a bunch of upset collectors send a little poo-poo her way....repeatedly? Sometimes it takes drastic efforts to set the record straight and as long as one isn't sending something terrible there is no law against flooding the mail with whatever your imagination might come up with? Just an interesting thought, don't you think?

 

That i do!

Public domain computers i can use...

 

oh...that really hurted 1k + for a copy!!! ok...this is a honest listing for the same 1893 CC Proof Morgan Reproduction

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39465&item=3954123991&rd=1

...as you guys probably knows...if she were selling an authentic coin...there are only about 12! so...if someone has them would be most likely slabbed and sold way more higher...does people not do a little search before bidding in such pricey coins?

 

Well it truly is the buyers fault there for not knowing better really.

On high floating coins like this it's not so much of an issue cos people should know better. But on the medium level and down it might be not as easy to spot a suspect auction. Especially when you get those that nick the pictures from a real dealer's website. The amount of negs don't always tell you everything.

Some con men actually do some genuine auctions for a month or two, or sometimes a little longer, build up the good feedbacks on cheaper stuff, and then when they list the dearer stuff they take the cash and run. No this is not an exaggeration, i've had this happen to me when i was diddled out of about $40, some had it worse... the guy had had decent feedback, about 97/98% and then suddenly he turned around, took everyone's cash and ran off with it. We were all left in the cold. Ebay blocked the seller after he'd been negged about 50 negative feedbacks in the space of three weeks.

So i don't take kindly to these con merchants.

 

I know exactly how you feel. I was ripped off for $50. The seller had a 99.8% feedback rating and then the negatives starting pouring in. She was NARU'd and then, of course, there's no recourse because she couldn't be found. Feedback in the 97-98% range (keeping in mind that a single neg can bring the feedback down very low if total feedback number is still low) is way too low for me to be willing to bid. The minimum for a power seller to maintain is 98% and in the overall scheme of things that's considered to be a very low rating. Even allowing for the crazy buyers that just leave negatives because they think it's a game (and I have seen plenty of those), an honest seller should be able to maintain 99.5% or above with no problem if the total feedback is 500 or more.

 

Private Seller

I noticed that this seller's auctions are mostly private. What is the purpose of a private auction? Seems to me that it makes it easier for the seller to dupe the buyer.

 

It absolutely makes it easier for the buyer to be scammed. No one with any knowledge can contact any of the bidders. It also keeps the identity secret of the buyers so they can resell the same fake item. I'm sure many of the scam artists on eBay are buying from each other under the protection of "Private" auctions.

This particular seller is going to lose her power seller status when her feedback reaches below 98%. At that point, it will be easier to get her booted. Most of her auctions just require better descriptions to be considered ethical.

However, the replicas that she's selling specifically have to have the word "COPY" or "REPLICA" in a certain size font in order to comply with eBay rules. That's why I chose those to report. Most of her auctions, while being irresponsible and misleading, are not in actual violation of eBay rules, just in violation of honest business practice. The ones I reported may get action taken because of the lack of either of those words. I hope so anyway.

 

I know what you mean...and you're right...but still no fair for sellers to abuse of newbie buyers...hehe I know you didn't meant to say that is fair , but Im still thinking...what was the buyer thinking!?! you just don't spend 1k+ for the fun of it one the 1st coin you see! you have to do your homework read about it first...anyway

 

Keep reporting Susan! we should have some kind of "eBay fraud team" stuff here

 

No i agree with you Ivan, in a way although it is their fault, it's still not right for sellers to take advantage like that.

I'm thinking the buyers are less beginners but more bullion investors who don't know a copy when they see one, but do know a rare date... Odd don't you think? I think it's a classic case of willing it to be what it's not, if spending a few thousand makes you believe it more then well it's your look out. A collector surely would have spotted that the reverse is not right anyhow... even with the copy bit obscured, the box it's in is still visable, where it wouldn't be there on the real deal.