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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 281292, member: 6370&quot;]to be honest I see people here who are very free in labeling a coin fake. Certainly if it is just glaringly obvious a coin is fake I will say so but I have even seen a person here in one thread say something like &#039;I dont know anything about these coins but I think its fake&#039;...or I see people I KNOW dont know enough to label fakes of certain type coins saying its fake...I will look at it and its not an obvious fake...often times they cannot even say WHY they think its fake...often they will say something like...its a valuable or rare coin selling on ebay...must be a fake...its from china...must be fake...etc..etc...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do know something about ancients and how to spot fakes in coins both ancient and modern but I will, almost always, stop short of pronouncing a coin fake because I am not an expert, I dont have the coin in hand, whatever...the only times I pronounce a coin fake is when it is very very obvious....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>People DO need to realize that labeling someone a seller of fakes IS a serious accusation in a business where reputation is so important...one shouldnt go about labeling fakes when you arent an expert and you cant even tell why you think its a fake or that it just &#039;looks fishy&#039;...say that then...say it look fishy but dont pronounce it a fake unless you can back it up.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for what might be considered misgrading...I dont know about american coins with the MS-blah blah but what you see is what you get is a better policy, if you rely on someones assessment of the grade of a coin, then you must have bought the coin sight unseen which is a terrible policy anyway...I dont even know why sellers try to place a relative grade on it anyway...take a photo and let people judge themselves...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Oh...and if you hate ebay and think its so awful? why are you scanning the place? I see people running here to bash ebay or a seller there...talking about ebay being the worst place ever...but they are using ebay <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Its like a person who shops at walmart bashing about walmart...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>anyway...I DO feel that often people throw around judgments and labels far to easily here and often over estimate their own judgment when it comes to fakes...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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