Old US Gold Authentic?

You are 100% correct. I regret my previous post.

 

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Why would anyone even contemplate buying coins like those from an unknown seller? There are plenty of reliable dealers to go to.

 

eBay no longer cares. Period.

 

Yup, I've lost count of the times I have reported Papas_Pouch, Know-Z-Ark and similar variations.

 

Even I can see those coins are bogus. And I don't know anything.

 

If you know nothing, how do you know they are fake, especially if the pictures were taken from slabbed specimens...

 

Those coins look absolutely genuine. There's nothing wrong with the portraits or the "look" of the coins. Whether the seller actually has them in his/her possession is a completely different issue. They look like they were cut & cropped from other images of holdered coins. Here are examples from my group of girls of the same dates to compare. The 1804 HE is the "Small Date" variety whereas mine is the "Large Date over Small Date" variety:






'dude

 

Seemed like way too much good detail on all of them,
to be the actual coins this person was selling.
It wasn't nec. the coins that were bad, but the authenticity of ownership.

 

@ToughCOINS I hope you go after him!!!!!

 

The modus operandi certainly fits this listing. Thanks for the warning, Mike.

 

@ToughCOINS oh darn, what a piece of crap this guy is! I hope you and others keep flagging everything he sells, frigging crook!

 

Maybe Ed Wood is selling his coins!!

 

That’s an online coin buyer’s nightmare. I’m sorry to hear you went through that, man. It seems akin to the Nigerian phone scams, albeit, a bit more targeted......

 

Special place in Hell for soulless thieves like that... That is downright dirty!

 

If he would instead use his time and ingenuity he is spending for deceptive activities on doing business the correct way, he could be making good, clean money. That’s just outrageous. What goes around, comes around. He’ll get his, man. That still really stings, I can only imagine your pain.

 

I'm sorry to hear of your loss.

I try to pay attention to discussions like this, partly to make sure my own strategies are still likely to protect me. In this case, like I said, refusal to accept a payment method that supports Buyer Protection was an immediate hard stop.

I'm just a dilettante, though, and you've been making a living at this. Do you find that there is good stuff on eBay (or similar venues) that requires accepting this kind of risk? For me, it's really easy to walk away from a listing; I've essentially got nothing at stake when I do so. If I needed to maintain throughput to make a living, I'd need to think (and look) a lot harder, and I might need to change some of my strategies...