This seller has a 99.99% feedback score!

You can't tell me he doesn't know about this fake????

 

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1944 D

 

Maybe he creates accounts and gives himself the feedback score?

 

He has over 1600 sales??

 

Bots... I'm probably wrong but they do the same thing with app-stores... But idk... maybe he got cocky

 

There are bids on it, do you think he created accounts to bid also?

 

Why wouldn’t he run the bid up
Human nature says run with the herd

 

Probably not... Like I said I'm probably wrong... maybe he doesn't know... maybe he got cocky and thought he could fool some people

 

Maby a polite message to him would help him take it down.
If the bids are for real then someone is trying to fill a book with no knowledge i'm guessing.
It would really hurt this buyer finding out he didn't get a real 14D. Finding out by a coin shop owner who loves to rub it in someones face is not a nice feeling.

 

I sent a polite message that said I believe he missed that it was a doctored 1944D and maby he should remove it.
We will see?

 

I usually try to assume the best of people until they prove otherwise. So, as a little experiment, I headed over to the 'bay and found this listing, and sent them a heads-up that this was a probable fake.

Imagine my surprise to find that this is a local shop that I have frequented in the past. In fact, they were only a mile from my old house! The young guy that I deal with has ALWAYS acted with integrity and tells the truth. But I will concede: they are a big outfit, and coins seem to be a much smaller sideline of their jewelry business-they don't spend time holding my hand and letting me poke through bins of stuff (although I'd love to look through bins! lol!) As a bigger outfit, I thought they tended to wholesale out stuff like this more often than listing it, but I didn't really follow their online listings ever so I can't say. When I bought from them I was buying and stacking bags of old junk silver.

The speculation about whether they create their own feedback seems unwarranted to me and I'm not sure our community should cast those kinds of aspersions without proof. I look critically at feedback on e-commerce sites, but my understanding of the 'bay says that a transaction must be made for a feedback-so it wouldn't even be easy to do if a seller were so inclined.

Anyway, like I said, I did my experiment and reported that this is probably a fake (and that it was being noticed by "a forum I read!") I'll be interested to see if they reply, and what action they take next.

 

Wow what are the odds of that!
Just to mention again I was also very polite and said I believe it was a oversight on their part..

 

You did the correct thing, not just wait and see what happens.

 

I'm sure there are otherwise-reputable stores that occasionally let something like this through. I hope they react properly when it's reported.

That said, though, here's one reason a good feedback score guarantees nothing:

Seller lists a fake.

Buyer purchases fake, complains, and leaves negative feedback.

Seller says "I'm sorry you're dissatisfied, send it back and I'll give you a full refund."

Whether or not the buyer sends the coin back, the fact that the seller offered a refund apparently means they can ask eBay to remove that negative feedback, and eBay will do so.

You might think that eBay would eventually shut down sellers who go through this process too many times. Maybe they do. But if so, their definition of "too many" is apparently a lot more relaxed than mine.

 

Yup, the more you sell and bring in money for ebay the easiest it is to remove your negative feedback..
Hint a seller who finds 100's of old estate's were he finds 1,000's and 1,000's of wheatback rolls which all are wrapped in the same ""brown paper"" by chance.
He never seems to go 15 minutes with a neg rep..

 

I'm also done trying to be the good guy

 

Obviously he wasn't looking very closely. Quite sad to see his other listings.

 

Evan S, the other coins above were from another seller incase you weren't sure.

 

Could it also be possible that this, being a sideline to the other items for sale, that they hired someone with very little knowledge about coins to manage their Ebay sales?

 

Seller does not accept returns.