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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1728281, member: 37498"]I also enjoy looking through the feedback of some sellers to see if the item they're currently selling was recently purchased through FeeBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>One guy who was selling a 1999-2008 run of silver proof sets for $799 had recently bought the same set from someone else for $550 and was even using the original seller's photos in his listing. During the time he bought them and was trying to sell them, silver went from about $28 to $24. Makes sense to me, silver goes down 15%, why not try to flip your freshly bought silver for a 50% profit?</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting auction was for some silver and gold bars and a few silver coins that supposedly belonged to the seller's grandfather who had recently passed away. It was a bid auction and I was keeping an eye on the price. While I was waiting I decided to look into his feedback. Every single item in the auction was recently purchased on FeeBay and once again, he was even listing them using the same photos. Many of the items were purchased so recently that he probably didn't even have them in hand yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1728281, member: 37498"]I also enjoy looking through the feedback of some sellers to see if the item they're currently selling was recently purchased through FeeBay. One guy who was selling a 1999-2008 run of silver proof sets for $799 had recently bought the same set from someone else for $550 and was even using the original seller's photos in his listing. During the time he bought them and was trying to sell them, silver went from about $28 to $24. Makes sense to me, silver goes down 15%, why not try to flip your freshly bought silver for a 50% profit? Another interesting auction was for some silver and gold bars and a few silver coins that supposedly belonged to the seller's grandfather who had recently passed away. It was a bid auction and I was keeping an eye on the price. While I was waiting I decided to look into his feedback. Every single item in the auction was recently purchased on FeeBay and once again, he was even listing them using the same photos. Many of the items were purchased so recently that he probably didn't even have them in hand yet.[/QUOTE]
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