Check out the S&H charges. Also, I don't think this is a genuine coin. http://cgi.ebay.com/1867-s-United-S...386224980QQcategoryZ39469QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
??????? I like that...Gold Eagle quarter dollar!!!and shipping charges more than the coin is worth.dd:
Reported to EBay as a fee evasion case and a misdescription. I agree - definitely looks like a casting with porous surfaces and a wide rim. In the real world EBay may take action on the fee evasion issue, but never on the fake coin problem.
Picked up this book and have been studying a lot recently. I'm trying to become just a bit more educated. I think I have been VERY lucky with ebay so far.... United States Gold Counterfiet Detection Guide (Official Whitman Guidebook)
Come on Roy, the listing is gone. Just put on your rose-colored sunglasses and imagine that it was removed for being fake! Ehh, nevermind, you were right, they shut it down for try to cheat ebay out of money. Actually I like it when the fakes are listed with unreasonable shipping, at least then they actually get removed.
I actually bid on a fake auction when I was new and inexperienced and I won the auction. I didn't pay right away and went to bed sick to my stomach because I had already realized my mistake by googling for my 'new treasure' and found out that what I had bought was a fake. I got up in the morning logged into ebay wondering what to do about my dilemma and ebay had removed the auction and made it null and void. I was saved from my own stupidity.
EBay doesn't explain its actions, but I'll bet this auction was removed because of the fee evasion issue I reported, not the questionable genuineness of the coin. It doesn't really matter - auction No. 8386224980 is gone! :high5:
Hello Cointalk Group, EBay does on occasion remove listings of fake coins, or close the accounts of sellers of fake coins. Especially if in the past, under other user ID's, they have failed to pay their eBay fees. EBay also has done nothing yet to supress the eBay hosted group Coin Forgery eBay, with over 600 members now, which is here (you have to have an eBay account to get on) Edited: This is not the place for your membership drive campaigns. Stop it now. There is an asdvantage to an eBay hosted group for numismatic fraud supression on eBay. If the user ID of the bidders / buyers are not concealed, you can make a post about the fake or suspect coin to the group, then invite them to the group using their eBay user ID's. Also master eBay is more likely to close a fraudulent auction exposed on a board hosted by eBay, than on a board not hosted by eBay. Best, Alan Van Arsdale
Ebay only pulls an auction if they are getting screwed up by it, ie fee evasion. It can be fake, but as long as Ms. Whitman gets her $$$$$$$ she doesn't give the proverbial rat's bum.
Hello Cointalk, EBay has closed over 25 "Toronto Group" accounts which were not engaged in fee evasion. They were only engaged in the selling of fake cvast classical coins, and ten of them, were engaged in giving me negative feedbacks, and were closed for that reason. They were giving me negatives because I was selling my booklet "The Toronto Forgeries" on eBay, and they wanted me to stop. That is the only time I ever gave into criminals, and gave them a truce. I agreed to not sell the booklet, that was all, they agreed to stop spiking my eBay account with negative feedbacks. I am aware of maybe 40 other instances where eBay has closed down auctions or eBay user ID's for being fakes or selling fakes. It is not common, but it does happen. Best, Alan Van Arsdale
Auction Sites are Dubious From my experience I will never buy anything from Ebay. I have been burned by ubid before and that cured me of bidding at auction sites.:hatch:
If nothing else ebay auctions are good for a laugh: http://cgi.ebay.com/1921S-MORGAN-DO...Z8390591543QQcategoryZ525QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Look at the quality of the photos (not) and then what the seller says: "photo says all".
