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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taribor, post: 1728130, member: 41027&quot;]This is long but hopefully it saves someone else from getting scammed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went from bagging to my wife (who rolls her eyes at my coin hobby) that i was the smartest guy in the world, to having to admit to that that I am a dummy <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been saving for a 1995 W silver eagle for a couple years and finally decided to pull the trigger. They&#039;ve gone up lately, so I started looking at buying the entire 10th anniversary set instead.&nbsp; Most were selling for $6500 to $7400 on ebay, with random sales at $5200.&nbsp; Well, on 6/2 a &quot;buy it now&quot; showed up for $5200.&nbsp; Seller had pefect feedback and over 13000 sales.&nbsp; So I pulled the trigger.&nbsp; Paid immediately, and got a fast response from seller saying he would be shipping insured/signature required within a day or so.&nbsp; He also upload tracking number immediately.&nbsp; I knew it was quite&nbsp; a bargain, but ahead, I found similar sales going back a few months, so it didn&#039;t set off any alarms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Three days later, still no package associated with the tracking number, so I emailed the seller.&nbsp; The next day, he replied with a new tracking number, this time UPS, and sent from Phoenix, AZ (as opposed to LA).&nbsp; He apologized and said he had a family issue and had to leave town for a day but that he had shipped the package.&nbsp; Sure enough, tracking number showed a package en route to my city, so I breathed a little easier.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the day the package was to arrive, I took the day off work so I would miss the UPS truck.&nbsp; Nothing.&nbsp; I checked that stupid tracking number a 100 times an finally assumed it wasn&#039;t coming that day.&nbsp; Around 8pm, I check tracking number again, and it showed &quot;Package delivered, left on porch.&quot;&nbsp; at which point I pretty much freaked....as in flashlight on all the neighbors front porch and knocking on every door on my street to see if they had received it. We live on a cul de sac and were outside with the kids at 7pm and there was sure as heck no UPS truck at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make an already long story short, it appears the scammer hijacked an established ebay account, then actually sent a package so I wouldn&#039;t get suspicious (I assume to give the CC time to clear).&nbsp; Paypal to be honest, didn&#039;t seem to think a whole lot about it, and simply said if the package wasn&#039;t insured or sent signature required, they would refund my money in a week or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking back, I bought from a highly regarded, established seller....but i never checked his actual sales........it was all paperback books under $10.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also should have killed the transaction after the original tracking number fizzled out, but seeing UPS had sent a package, put me at ease.</p><p><br /></p><p>re: the package that was sent, I got a hold of UPS and they gave me the ship-to address, and I went out to interview the homeowner.&nbsp; The ship-to name and address matched the name of the housewife who lived there, and she said she receives FedEx/UPS all the time from amazon, ebay, etc. but didn&#039;t get any coins or a package that matched the time/tracking number of my package.&nbsp; Very odd.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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