Fake Coin?

*sigh* "one never knows, do one?", to paraphrase an old broadway play lol.

We all gotta start somewhere, after all I didnt always have 153 positive feedbacks, at one point I had one. Luckily its 100% positive :-) but I had a lot of trepidation moments, shall we say, on the way up. I'm playing Devil's advocate, but I think you all see the point. Fact: I messed up the first transaction here on the forum. To date its been the only transaction ON the forum. Of course it all ended up good (I sent the wrong item but then corrected it). So that's 100% negative? Naw.

In short, if the transaction is safe, what the hay, if you really want it you could end up with two people very satisfied, you with coin in haand and seller with one beeyooootiful feedback which will instill a lot of trust for future tranactions.

That being said, remember: Caveat Emptor !

HTH

Bruce

Interesting.. it does look like the exact same pictures. And from the coinfacts page, that particular coin is graded - ICG MS-66, Red. That would have been slightly pertinent to the listing.

thats what I said all all along. I knew I saw the picture of this coin.

I tried to report this but what I got back from ebay was a blank email copy, as if no information was submitted.

What I wrote was this under a couple different reporting choices.
[eBayItem]180411508555[/eBayItem]
The seller has stolen a PCGS image and claims to have taken the images himself on white paper and cropped them. You can see the Seller warrents the coin to be as pictured in the my messages exchange between a potential buyer and the seller. The coin he claims to be selling is property of PCGS and copied.
This is blatant theft. A copy of this will be sent to my State Representative since you people are only interested in getting the commission and fees paid in Paypal. You do not help protect the buyer, you support the activity by allowing thousands of scams to be listed each day.
See this page to see the obvious same image of the PCGS coin.
http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cent...vdb_cent.htm
Images courtesy of Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles
The rainbow toning on the right hand side is virtually a fingerprint detail which is unique, and if you were educated in numismatics, you could easily see other diagnostics in the coin that show it is unique to a certain production die.

I wonder what someone will actually get if they win that.

In this case, I think the local or federal Police forces should be involved.
Am not sure if there is a law protecting thieves like that. probably is.....that's why they get away with it

Wow Just checking to see if they got a neg....http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...backAsSeller Looks like someone stole the coin. What are the chances.

Well, I don't think that there are more dishonest people in the world, it's just that with mass communication we're exposed to more of them. Used to be, the only crooks you got exposed to were locals, now you have to deal with crooks from all over the world!

Once again, another reason to boycott ebay...