Would you pay a five-digit figure for a counterfeit Morgan?

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by HandsomeToad, Sep 1, 2009.

  1. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I think it goes more like this - someone here made a bid on that precisely to stop anybody else from getting it and being taken. They never had any intention of paying for it.
     
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  3. hallmark929

    hallmark929 Junior Member

    I emailed him on his 1893-cc coin and asked him if he could send me better pictures becuase I could't see it clear enough and asked him if could guarantee this to be an authentic 1893-cc. This was his responce ( I am selling these coins from my dad's estate I can not attest to the authenticty of it. I think it is authentic but I have had two or three jealous members emailing my customer and telling them that my coins are fakes. ) He didn't send a a better photo.
     
  4. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Crusty, I've only looked at the first one, the 1877 and even with the blurry photo you can tell that the obv is a type II hub that wasn't used until several years later so it HAs to be fake.
     
  5. Vess1

    Vess1 CT SP VIP Supporter

    Well, you'd be more upset if you knew how many more of these people are out there, that Ebay knows about and have punished! Yet they are allowed back on to sell again.

    If you ever have some time to kill, go to all these replica auctions and click on the sellers' feedback. Look at how many people are buying many, many key date replicas all in a row. The same buyers over and over.

    Then click on those people's feedback and look at their selling pages. Some are not re-selling them. Some are. It's not hard to find the former replica buyers, selling their replicas as real and making hundreds if not thousands.

    Of course the cover is, they sell mostly cheap authentic stuff to look legit and cover their tracks. Feedback filler. Then throw in the occasional key date replica to make the real money and hopefully the buyer is uneducated and fooled. Works most of the time because everybody you look at has "great" positive feedback!

    Feedback is a VERY poor barometer to base decisions on anymore. I would always look into the feedback for myself. In fact, I'm just about to the boycott stage as well. Ebay allows this criminal activity to go on. They don't do near enough.

    I watched a show on Ebay a while back. It said Ebay makes $80,000 a minute in fees. 24/7. They could afford to have an army of specialists dedicated to combating this fraud all over ebay. Instead, they do less now than they did a few years ago.

    They were letting a small group of VOLUNTEER experts help them. The relationship broke down. Now they don't communicate with them at all. So yes, Ebay has taken a step back in protecting conusmers despite their B.S. claims.
     
  6. BadThad

    BadThad Calibrated for Lincolns

    Disgusting. He's selling his "dads estate" but if you look at his feedback, he's buying coins. LOLOLOLOL
     
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