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Right. I actually thought the auction pics were pretty decent, yet they certainly did not tell the tale like my pictures do. We only paid a couple bucks, so what. But he said he had it since he was a kid. What should I do? His sold items list has several coins that look wrong, but he's been a member since 2003 and has 500 feedback, 375 as a seller. If I report him, then what? Could this guy really be buying fakes from China and selling them from $hundreds a-piece and nobody has noticed? Isn't that a very serious crime? What is the right thing to do? I feel sick thinking about it!
1) You only paid $1.25 (plus s/h), so this is one the authorities aren't going to be interested in.
2)
ebay is not interested in reports about a seller selling fakes, as you might think. Apparently, they will take action on active listings if reported to the right person. But since they won't do anything about completed listings, then they aren't REALLY interested in stopping their sellers from selling fake coins.***
3) If you open a case for not as described (being sold as authentic (original), but it is a fake) the
normal process will be that you have to return it to the seller. You will get your money back, they will get a defect, but no guarantee
ebay will do anything other than that to the seller. They could, possibly, list it again.
4) You said the "auction pics were pretty decent". I think it looked an unnatural pink/orange/rust color. I can also see the askew twos in the date (and this is a reduced size photo).
***A while back,
ebay had staff that were assigned to enforcing
ebay coins, paper money and stamps policies. They would end current listings, ended or sold listings, hand out selling suspensions and even NARU (kick off) sellers. But, less than two years ago they abruptly disbanded the department, and reassigned the staff elsewhere. This has resulted in the flood of new counterfeit, replica, blurry photos, altered, and other coin policy violating listings.
I am happy to see that there is at least one
ebay contact that will now end fake coin listings - it is a start.
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Posted 02/02/2016 6:46 pm
