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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 2551944, member: 15019&quot;]I suppose this applies to all collectibles in general, but I&#039;m seeing people using product reviews to alert others to fake coins, like this listing below. Problem is, it will show the same thing for all future coins listed with the same keywords (country, denomination and year).</p><p><br /></p><p>See this: <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1873-A-Greece-Drachma-KM-38-Nice-Addition-/272426802004?hash=item3f6de71b54:g:LB4AAOSw0UdXtndU" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1873-A-Greece-Drachma-KM-38-Nice-Addition-/272426802004?hash=item3f6de71b54:g:LB4AAOSw0UdXtndU" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/1873-A-Greece-Drachma-KM-38-Nice-Addition-/272426802004?hash=item3f6de71b54:g:LB4AAOSw0UdXtndU</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The review is from Sept. 10th and obviously was for a fake of the same coin (this coin was just listed tonight). The good samaritan action of the past is now hurting legit sellers.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I do think it&#039;s cool to be able to drop an alert to other buyers right on the item page like this, product reviews really have no place for coins or anything else where even two of the same thing are still unique. This ends up hurting sellers of genuine coins more than it punishes sellers of fakes, and vice versa when positive reviews appear on counterfeit coin listings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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