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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KDD, post: 4357853, member: 110611&quot;]I foolishly bought a few &#039;ancient&#039; beads from this seller. I realized they may have been fake when I bought them, but took my chances as I wasn&#039;t paying much and he had 100% positive from 1,000+. After the items were sent, I saw a bunch of listings by the seller of &#039;antiques&#039; that look like absolute jokes, especially the alleged Egyptian pieces. I then ran a Google search when I saw too good to be true Alexander the Great coins and found out he has been accused of selling fakes. I confronted him after seeing him relist a number of items I had bought and others multiple times (too many to believe they were all buyers who failed to pay IMO), didn&#039;t buy his claims of being authentic. After receiving, I wrote 4 negatives for the beads and pledged not to accept a refund on the items so my negs remained. He refunded me without asking my permission, insisted he was legit and asked me to rectify the situation. I didn&#039;t respond. A week or two later, I went back and ebay removed all my negs to this seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not the only one. I had theorized people were getting refunds and withdrew their negs, and saw another seller just before me leave him a neg. That neg was purged, which is why I took it upon myself to give him a neg rather than just accept my foolishness and move on, because he was getting whatever negs he was removed by a complicit ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>People don&#039;t look at a sellers neutrals (where they will see numerous claims that he is selling fakes from people who were refunded), they see 100% positive over 1,000+ ebay score = legit seller. They put their guards down when they see that 100%. Neutrals he has gotten accusing him of selling fakes don&#039;t alter his numbers: all a viewer sees is that no one has left him a negative. They give him the benefit of doubt.</p><p><br /></p><p>In reality, ebay is purging peoples negatives to this seller, whether they request a refund or not. I&#039;m not sure if ebay would remove the negs without the refund, anyones guess, but that too wouldn&#039;t surprise me.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not that people don&#039;t have the guts to stand up to sellers like this, it is that ebay is complicit in removing feedback no matter what the buyer does. People are paying over $100 especially for his coins which are going to flood the market. Ebay endorses all of this. This is on you, ebay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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