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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EdwardJ, post: 883398, member: 20518&quot;]Hello 47:</p><p>Sorry &#039;bout that.&nbsp; I should have started at the beginning.&nbsp; I thought (unfairly) that everyone on the list would already know that although the Ebay listings state that the replica coins will be properly marked, but in reality they never are.&nbsp; So the ruse to satisfy the Ebay requirements of following the law is taken care of..&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Point 2: Yes probably the FTC is involved with that.&nbsp; But nothing in the Government can be that simple.&nbsp; For instance it is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who make the busts on copyright infringement.&nbsp; A designer hand bag sold as real but actually a counterfeit falls under their purview, primarily because most of these counterfeits come from abroad.&nbsp; That is where the Homeland Security connection came in for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Point 3:&nbsp; Again you are right.&nbsp; In a perfect world Ebay does have strict restrictions against illegal transactions.&nbsp; It has pained me to learn that this is not a perfect world and human greed for lack of a better term enters the picture far too often.&nbsp; I have had to admit that evil does exist.&nbsp; Some evils do appear more serious than violation of the Hobby protection Act, but this is still not a force of good.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is my experience and also that of others on this list that when confronted with the fact that a certain seller is violating their policy by not marking coins as they promise, Ebay does not do very much to enforce their policy.&nbsp; At worst the seller is banned from ebay.&nbsp; A minor inconvenience to the seller who can set up a new account and continue what they were doing in less that 10 minutes.&nbsp; In fact some sellers have 4 accounts active at all times so if one is banned they have 3 other accounts with excellent feedback history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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