This is Pandora's box here.
Yes selling overpriced crap is bad ethically, but if there really are people dumb enough to buy it - well too bad. I mean if some snowflake complains that some disabled or impaired person spends their $50k life savings a HH 1988 Australia $2 coin or a 1971 British new penny as some clown thinks its a rare one of a kind thing - then where was that person when the disabled person was buying it.
Sorry this wokeness and overtly PC lets save them from their own stupidity attitude needs to end. It's time to take responsibilty for your actions. If you know its a scam, ignore it and the seller. Why waste time reporting them,
ebay dosen't care because its just another success fee to them. Even worse is the scammer will likely insult you or worse.
People:
ebay are there to make money, not be the social conscience of the economic world. The protection they offer against scam and fraud is more for ticking boxes than any genuine concern for people getting scammed.
As for trying to stop it, its obvious
ebay is full of scammers and its not just coins and stamps - anyone want 1 million fake American "Forever" stamps printed in China? - You can get them on
ebay. Some fake video games, knockoff Nikes, Russian imitative "Vigara", a Jannspot bag, Some Northfake blazers and some Johnnie Worker whisky from Shandong? all there on the "Bay"
Again it goes back to knowledge is power, when you collect coins - read as much as you can, consult catalogues.
Part of the reason I feel I am at least collecting my coins well, is because I spent years planning and reading about what to collect. I mean I did not wake up one day and think "I want to collect Halfcrowns" I read about the coins I liked, perused catalogues and spoke to collectors and then finally chose coins that not only were fun and challenging to collect - but also appealed to me aesethically.
I spent from 2012 to 2019 fantasising over this collection of Australian florins I was going to amass, before I amassed it and everyone can see, I did pretty well for not much outlay. It took just 12 months to go from nothing to a 1932 Florin that did not come from
ebay.
Half of the people buying £7000 BIN 1p coins from 1971 don't do this - they think, oh I just want a rare coin or some bling bling (Hence why sales of NFT chimp pictures are through the roof!).
I mean why waste your time, bothering some internet giant who could not give a fat rats - you know these scams are garbage - move on and concentrate on the stuff you DO want to buy.
Rant over!
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Posted 02/08/2022 2:56 pm
