Watch Out For This Seller

I'm afraid so...

Thanks for the heads up, Bill.
Jim

My intuition is that this person is not really trying to beat or scam anyone, he is just....not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Perhaps he is not long in America...just judging by his syntax and grammar errors.

No, this guy is a scam. He understands what he is doing. His latest response to me asking him to remove items that are misidentified is:

"I am losing money and I am not going to take down any more! I live on a fixed income and $25.00 is more that I need to throw in the trash"

By the way, the coin he removed was a 1935 Buffalo that he says was a doubled die and it was not. Now think about this, the coin is a 75 cent coin. How is he going to profit $25.00 unless he knows it's a rip off?

This seller knows that what he is selling is trash and he continues to leave it up. Many of his coins are not identified correctly and he is intentionally leaving up coins that are not what he says they are because he needs the money.

It sounds like internet fraud to me. Most of what he sells goes to uneducated collectors. Do you want to be the dealer that someday has to tell one of his buyers that he has ripped them off.

Steer clear of him. He is a definite scammer. He also has three negatives as a buyer. It says that he received merchandise, the seller got confirmation of delivery then this guy never paid. You figure it out.

Let me explain something that is crystal clear. He is a scammer. He knows what he has is not what he says it is. He posts on the forum and gets opinions of people that know what they are talking about. When he doesn't hear what he wants to hear, he posts the coin anyway. It is not described correctly.

Next, it is the sellers responsibility to know the rules that pertain to the items being sold. The fact that some of his listings break the rules only goes as far as a point. Once a person is made aware that the rules are being broken and he still does nothing to change his auction, he becomes a scammer. There is no excuse for what he is doing.

He admits to leaving mis-identified items up even after they can clearly be seen not to be what they are.

Also, if a person can't grade, they shouldn't put a grade in their description.

On the auction with the penny book. He gets one bid on one coin and then works out a deal to sell any of the others at prices they come to terms with. Clearly against eBays rules and he knows it now. I explained it to him two days ago.

All these things were nicely explained to him. His responses were ridiculous.

He is breaking ebay's rules and he is scamming buyers and he knows it. I used eBays "Question for Seller" feature to nicely make him aware of what he was doing. Also, this is his pattern . He always has misidentified coins listed.

So...he is definitely a scammer on some items. Other items are OK. He is cheating ebay and he is cheating buyers.

So let me ask you...if you were the person that ended up with the falsely Identified Buffalo nickel, paying $40.00 for a 75 cent coin, or if you ended up with the misidentified 1956 D Quarter with a machine doubled mintmark, or his bogus tailfeather variety Morgan, would you have a problem with him.

Someone is going to end up with that junk. The only reason he doesn't have more negatives is that he sells to newbies that don't know a tree from a fencepost. Many have low feedback ratings and they believe his bogus descriptions. It may be years before they find out they were ripped off.

I am trying to do the buyers a favor by steering them away from this guy.

Keep in mind that someone who makes a habit of mis-identifying coins, intentionally, (I can assure you it's intentional) , is a person who is a bad dealer. I counted 11 out of 46 items that he had that were bogus. Thats about 25% of his listings. Just because 75% of his listings are OK, doesn't make him right to scam buyers with the other 25% of his items.

He had several days after I questioned him to do the right thing. I urged him to do the right thing. He doesn't want to. I even suggested that he stick to what he knows as some of his listings are just fine. He doesn't want to do that.

I think I've proved his intent and it ain't that good. He is a Bad seller in my book.

All of what foundinrolls says is true for this seller, and at least one other one who has been asking questions around here about his crap silver coins and counterfeits and then still uses the 'coins' in pictures on his listings like this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/65-Grams-SILVER...ns_W0QQitemZ140200498943QQihZ004QQcategoryZ547QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've been thinking of having another contest. Maybe it will be 'How many counterfeits can you find in carrconnection's listings?"

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It's almost like people are searching for reasons to get sellers' listings canceled.

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I do that every single day and I'm proud of myself. I probably get 150-250 listings a day canceled. Bogus listings and rules violations need to be stopped regardless if it's by one member that stumbles upon a bad listing, or me taking a couple hours a day to seek them out.

Do you want the police to stop looking for reasons to arrest people?

Also just an FYI, This member has been doing this for over a year. Although I'm not positive it seemed that he may have been given a little leeway from the Staff since he was a member. Probably in the hopes that he would listen to the good advice here and get better with his listings. It obviously hasn't happened. So now he has to step up and be responsible for his actions.