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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1383437, member: 27832&quot;]Yep. eBay doesn&#039;t cut such sellers much slack at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t172193-4/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t172193-4/">Here&#039;s my similar tale</a>, although I didn&#039;t realize the coin was fake when I bid on it. <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t175499/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t175499/">Here&#039;s the follow-up</a>, where the seller tried to get me to send back the fake. To make two long stories short, you aren&#039;t obligated to return counterfeit items to the person trying to pass them off. The seller may <i>ask</i> PayPal to <i>ask</i> you to return the item, but if you explain to PayPal that that would be abetting someone who&#039;s attempting illegal activity, they&#039;ll agree with you.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can&#039;t get past the karmic worry of keeping something you didn&#039;t pay for, you can turn it over to your local Secret Service branch (they probably won&#039;t do anything about it), or you can deface or destroy it yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>In another case, I bought what was claimed to be a St. Gaudens double eagle, and turned out to be a three-inch novelty coaster. In that case, I called it a &quot;novelty item&quot; instead of a &quot;counterfeit&quot; in my correspondence with eBay, and they did require me to return it to the seller -- but eBay sent me a printable shipping label, so again I didn&#039;t have to pay for return shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay has always made me whole in such cases, but it&#039;s still enough work to prevent me from hopping on some &quot;too good to be true&quot; offers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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