Ebay Buy It Now Roll? Any Thoughts?

What makes me nervous about these listings is that the seller is sure to ay "what we have here is what LOOKS LIKE an original roll...blah blah." ... and that smacks of somebody legally covering their backside.

I'd never suck into it. You can still find the old paper rolls, and the bank machines will still function just fine with them, so you could manufacture "what looks like old rolls"

Somebody thought it might be .... so I guess they'll find out.

Chance

Clue #1- look at all the other rolls the seller has either currently listed or sold, same wrapper. Clue #2- Denver does not and never has had a Federal Reserve bank.

Thank you, I didn't bid. Merc's just have always been one of my top 3 coins and I have been searching a while around here as well as ebay and haven't seen these before. Thanks for slapping me instead of having my wife do it.....again.
I wasn't really thinking there's a 16-D or even 21's, just trying to see if we can upgrade what we have in albums, especially after seeing some of the posts on your collections here. Buying individuals just gets real expensive you know.

The odds are pretty darn good...if you put them there yourself...like the guys who sell these do!

You know, I only looked at the first two pages of feedback. I did not see buyer after buyer saying its a scam. In fact, none really. I did note that most said nothing spectacular; which is what you would expect from your average OBW of any denomination from "back in the day". I did note a few that said they found some really nice coins.

Now if you were a bulk buyer of OBW rolls, wouldn't you occasionally get scammed yourself? And if you truly did not search them yourself then you would inevitably pass along those same salted rolls that had fooled you.

I think it is unfair to say this guy is a scammer. With over 1700 sales in the last year and only two negatives and 34 neutrals, it means that only 2 tenths of a percent of his customers think they got a bad deal. If I had to form my impression of this seller just from this forum, I would think he was in the same league as a Chinese counterfitter. A CAREFUL reading of his feedback says otherwise. I personally am not ready to Slander anyone's character over 2 negative feedbacks out of 1700.

And if you deal on ebay long enough someone is going to be unhappy. It is human nature. Someone is going to buy one of these rolls for 22 dollars and open it and find a bunch of common date 30s and 40s and get ticked off.

Overpriced? Probably. A scam? No, I don't think so.

This was not a mixed denomination roll. It was a roll of dimes that might have had any dime from the 40s and before. Are we all looking at the same ad? I have seen lots of ads for penny rolls with a dime stuck on the end. There is little doubt those are salted rolls. And I sure would not buy them. But this is not one of those ads.

This is a SCAM. Basically someone buys a few thousand $$ worth of junk silver and a tiny number of nice AU/MS coins. They stick the good coins at the end of "original bank rolls" (which of course are obvious modern fakes) and then sucker people into buying them in hopes that they will win the lotto and get an all-MS roll. Obviously, that never happens but even though the auction prices are a TOTAL RIP-OFF these clowns still get positive feedback from the cable TV coin buyer community who bid on these things and don't care what price they pay.

(note that good finds do pop up in junk silver collections - the sellers who crank out these rolls just buy huge lots of silver at face, probably don't waste any time searching it, so occasionally yeah someone finds something good but at no higher rate than if they just bought the junk... and of course a smart seller will seed every 50'th roll with something nice so he gets that "wow I found XYZ amazing coin!" feedback. Similar to the Lotto - state has an 80% profit margin but the occasionally winning tickets keeps people out there buying...)