Seller On Ebay Takes The Cake

A warning to all. Thanks for sharing.

They are not worth reporting and I'm not sure there is a legitimate reason to do so. Damage is called damage and doubling is called doubling, it just happens to be Machine Doubling. The pics are clear enough...

I think their asking prices are ridiculous enough to turn away any legit buyer. A legit buyer would know what "Detail" and "Damage" means and the absence of a DDO designation.

If an uber-idiot comes along, then more power to them. I won't stand in the way.

What is that saying? Something about money and fools...

I don't see anything actionable in those listings. The closest he gets to anything fraudulent is the statement that doubling on the date and mintmark of the 69 S is rare, it's actually very commonly machine doubled.

The fact that he's asking ridiculously high amounts of money for them is not fraudulent. When you're selling something you can ask whatever price you want. There's no such thing as the price police. Although a lot of people seem to want to set themselves up to be that.

Guys, I am not convinced that we should be wasted our mental energy fuming about things like this. Just laugh. We have a thread "worst coins on ebay" to post humorous things like this.

Whether the person really thinks that it is valuable or whether they are doing this as a joke or trying to fool somebody is beyond our knowledge, and certainly beyond the policies of ebay.

For sure, you would think that anyone willing to spend in excess of 10 thousand dollars on a coin would be able to detect this obvious scam. Maybe if the seller's prices had been about 100 times lower, he may actually have some luck getting someone to fall for it.

As long as you're honest, you can ask what you want. Still don't mean you'll get my cake. Thanks, Doug.

Yes it is somewhat misleading, and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out. My problem is whenever someone points out something like this everyone starts clamoring about wanting to report them to ebay, or report them somebody and get them removed, usually simply because the person is asking way more the piece is worth. Sorry if you thought I was calling you the price police, we've seen auctions like this for years and there are a lot of people out there who want to be the price police and get anything removed the faith feel the seller is asking too much for, in their opinion. When ebay first began they always stressed that they were "just a venue" and it was always assumed that caveat emptor was the rule. To a large extent, I like those days better.