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Well Reviewed Seller Selling Fakes?

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 Posted 05/19/2022  1:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
Abominable .... I hope Bobby can resolve this
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05/19/2022 4:49 pm
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 Posted 05/19/2022  3:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westernsky to your friends list
Either all sold or all have been pulled. Not there now.
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 Posted 05/19/2022  4:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobby131313 to your friends list
Pulled.
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 Posted 05/19/2022  5:53 pm  Show Profile   Check nss-52's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add nss-52 to your friends list
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 Posted 05/19/2022  6:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cointagous to your friends list
Only past auction still available to view.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125302646907
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 Posted 05/19/2022  6:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kbbpll to your friends list

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I can't believe they are allowing "fantasy Coins" again
They're not, as far as I can tell. This is still their policy:
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/...licy?id=5042

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Replica coins are not allowed
Counterfeit or altered coins and currency are not allowed, nor is equipment designed to make them

Enforcement is another story of course.
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 Posted 05/19/2022  6:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list
I saw the category Fantasy Issue Coins and was concerned but I misread it - it's a subset of exonumia so tokens and things, but the category is abused as to fakes from China proliferate sometimes.



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eBay What is the policy?

Replica coins are not allowed


Good to see that is still the case. I hope and wish they could keep on top of it, but I'm sure the listings happen faster than they can keep up with.
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 Posted 05/19/2022  7:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
I was able to get some screenshots from an open window. Judge for yourself. The title no longer showed "Fantasy Coin" as per prior poster. It was just in a small part of the item attributes within the coin description which I highlighted with a red box. Call these out here if you see these types of listings. Thanks for taking care of this Bobby!

Toned to look old. "Rings Like Silver" seems like an added scammy touch.

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05/19/2022 11:21 pm
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 Posted 05/19/2022  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
The scammers apparently knew enough to abstain from minting the 1816 date which was never struck at the mint. Two people were bidding on the off center strike 1815 coin before it was shut down.
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THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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05/19/2022 7:58 pm
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 Posted 05/19/2022  8:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SpeedDemonND to your friends list
Glad they got removed. Buyers always need to do their due diligence before purchasing coins, but scams like this are awful to see.
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 Posted 05/19/2022  8:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
This listing is still up. I wonder what "Contemporary struck in Copper" means.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125316608515

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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
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 Posted 05/19/2022  8:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
Seller used to indicate "Fantasy" in the title of the listing. The Gobrecht dollar is so poor, I think that it wouldn't fool too many. The 1796 Half Dollar with the reverse 1/2 fractional denomination is a highly coveted coin, but again very crude. With the capped busts, they really stepped it up a notch in quality and dropped the "Fantasy" from the title.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144544027054
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/125302634581
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
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05/19/2022 8:21 pm
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 Posted 05/20/2022  12:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kbbpll to your friends list
"Rings like silver" sounds like something to scam the scammers with. "You can buy this $1.99 Chinese garbage from me for $14, but it 'rings like silver', so you can scam somebody else for a lot more!" But does it really ring like silver? Scamming the scammers. From what's posted here, it seems like with so many listings this seller has a direct line to the Chinese factory, and I wish the Feds would step in. This seems like a criminal enterprise beyond the typical 0 feedback scammers.
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