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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you look far enough back you will find my name on his list, I bought a coin from this seller and returned it.
it was a 1918 walker, that turned out to be cleaned if my memory serves, I was building a birth year set for my Fathers year.
this was a few years ago and he was nowhere close to as big as he is now.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I notice several comments saying a number of the coins are fake. It is one thing to sell "unsearched" rolls that have one or two older coins and the rest more recent. That may be misleading but is pretty standard on ebay. But including fakes is outright dishonesty. |
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 United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
It could be people bid just on what they saw...  After all, on one end is an 1886 Type II--which is a lower mintage coin at 3.6M. But I wonder if the seller knew that? $10 could be OK for those two... Edited by DVCollector
01/01/2010 1:48 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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He states in his auctions that there are copy coins in the amazing recently discovered "found" lost treasure. I can't believe people buy this crap. This is one of the ones that you really need to put on your high topped boots for! But people keep buying into it. (If you notice he mentions copy coins and you should be able to pick out the ones you will receive) http://cgi.ebay.com/ALLIS-CHALMERS-...OM_W0QQitemZ a href= https://www.coincommunity.com/go/link.asp?target=https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/370314195920 target= _blank rel= nofollow 370314195920 /a QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item56387233d0 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I remember seeing that auction with the clock in the picture a while back
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Pillar of the Community
United States
790 Posts |
Here's a comment I found in the feedback, it was a positive. 'I guess "as described". "Impressive" is a bit strong. Must be an AD EXEC' If this is a positive, what does it take to get a negative? Based on this, I'm guessing that as a rule, many people are very hesitant to send a negative, which really defeats the purpose of the feedback system.
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Valued Member
United States
317 Posts |
wow.....that's terrible. I wish there was something that we could do to get this guy off of ebay.....but sadly, I'm sure there's hundreds like him out there, preying on newbies and the uninformed. It's purely evil, in my opinion. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2669 Posts |
He's the one who sells the coins slabbed as "INB" (International Numismatic Bureau). We get people here all the time asking if the slabs are legit - they are only legit if you consider over-graded pocket change a good deal.
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Valued Member
United States
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I remember that same auction from 2 months ago, I was watching it.... It sticks in the mind because of the clock and the "hidden room"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That second link you provide Ratman is funny because he is admitting it is made up, but I'm sure people read right over that part and think the story is true! Here is the line:
"Here's a good metal detecting story you don't want to miss-- but it is just a story."
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And at the end of same auction: Quote:
It is sort of a risk on your part. But if you want the fun, then go ahead and bid. Well that's the end of our metal detecting story. Is it true? The S/H will probably cost you more than the coins you receive are worth. (check his negative feedback). I learned this little trick for checking negative feedback here on the forum. When you get to the feedback page of the seller you want to check feedback for.... click behind the M in .com, backspace, then type in .uk ( turning it to .co.uk) then click enter This will enable you to click on the # of negative or neutral feedbacks and see them without having to look at the positives. If the people bidding on this guys auctions did this, they would never buy anything from him |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's a really cool tip Ratman! I had no idea the UK version of ebay worked that way. I'm going to do that all the time now! |
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Australia
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Posted 01/01/2010 09:32 am
