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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tenacious, post: 681203, member: 14553&quot;]What many may not realize is that some of these fake sellers can make not only <b>hundreds</b> of dollars per week, but sometimes even into the <b>thousands</b> of dollars per week. They&#039;re not just selling an occasional fake coin. It&#039;s a big thriving business, or businesses.</p><p><br /></p><p>What really angers me is that even though you can report fake coins to eBay, and often get the auctions canceled, eBay allows the seller to continue selling. Even though that seller has a history of auction after auction being pulled because the coins were shown to be fake. And that it&#039;s obvious to anyone that these sellers are intentionally and constantly selling fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m sure what often happens is that, for example, a collector wants an example of an 8 Reales Pillar Dollar for their collection. They&#039;re not interested in starting a Pillar Dollar collection, so they are not going to put in a lot time, (weeks?, months?, years?), learning to authenticate this type. They go to eBay. They&#039;re aware that there are fakes around. But they find a fake Pillar Dollar that &quot;looks real&quot; to them, and they buy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I completely understand that someone isn&#039;t going to put in a lot time learning to authenticate a type they only want one of.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, if you&#039;re going to take a risk and buy it on eBay,<b> at least <u>research</u> <u>the</u> <u>seller</u> first.</b> You can weed out the worst offenders at least. This goes for any type of coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But in conclusion, and it&#039;s been said by many over and over and over:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The best way to avoid all of this is to only buy from reputable and recommended sellers.</b> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And since there&#039;s new people coming to this hobby all the time, it needs to keep being said over and over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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