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Message:: [QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 253254, member: 307"]here's what I wrote in my complaint to eBay: This is only a small sample of the numerous items of the same ilk that are being sold by a specific seller on your site. This seller is representing these as gold. The only description of these tokens mentions the word gold. To a knowledgeable coin collector, due to the size of these tokens, it is plausible that the tokens would be made of gold, which I do not believe they are. Also, these are copies or replicas and per the Hobby and Coin Act (if being sold in the USA) these must be called replicas, copies or referred to in some way ON THE COIN (or in the description) in order to be sold as such. Many reputable people sell replicas of coins, but the items are listed as such. The mere mention of these as tokens does satisfy this requirement because it does not mean that they are NOT made of gold. The seller uses this 1 word as the disclosure and therefore is knowingly misrepresenting the items listed as well as others. A clear violation of eBay policy. As many sellers have recently done, the language used is: "I don't know about these coins, but I have been colecting for 30 years." This claim of ignorance in order to misrepresent is nothing more than fraud, and eBay is complicit in this fraud if they do nothing about users who list items in this manner[/QUOTE]