Call me paranoid, but I would never buy a coin that came from China. I have bought many coins from foreign countries... Australia, England, even the middle east. I once bought a bunch of 1940's "silver" USA dollars in the Philippines. I was positive they were fake, in that it did not make sense to buy a 1 ounce silver dollar for less than 3 dollars each when the spot price was around $15 at the time. The seller even had a magnet if you wanted to check them. I sent a few to friends in the Philippines, where they were listed as replicas or something of that nature. As far as the rest, I dumped them in the trash just before I left that country, but this was because I felt I might have problems with USA airport customs with the fake rolex watches for my personal use and for friends that knew they were fakes/replicas because I told them, I bought them for about $5.00. There was no doubt between the seller and me that they were replicas, I think that you are allowed one or two replica items of differing products into the USA as long as you declared them, which I did. Can you believe that watch broke within 4 weeks after I bought it hahaha. That being said, someone once in China hijacked my
ebay account and changed my contact and password information so I could not log on and boot him off, these were in the days when you could not call
ebay. So I emailed and I emailed and I emailed
ebay, it took several weeks for them to fix the problem. In the meantime, the Chinaman sold dozens of new "$1,000+" retail price fake designer purses for about $150 and represented them as real. All the people needed was to see my 100% positive feedback and that I was a USA seller to get them on the hook. The kicker is that before
ebay finally stopped the problem, I started getting positive feedback from delighted buyers who felt they got a very good deal from buying "real" purses for a tenth of their real "value" or listed retail price, a few of the buyers even bought one or two more of "my" purses as gifts after receiving theirs! Perception is reality in these buyer's minds. These purses were so well copied that it would have taken an expert to spot them as fakes, so why could they not do the same with coins? This also applies to "graded" Chinaman coins because of the fake holders being around, altho I know it is much harder to convincingly (no obvious signs or clues as to them being fakes) fake a coin than a purse.
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Posted 04/19/2018 09:11 am
