Ebay No Longer Allowing Replica Coins!?

Of course this is great news. And of course this is what is needed to stop all sorts of fakes, counterfeits, copies, etc. Similar types of laws have been passed almost everywhere on murder, robberies, etc. and just look how great that worked out. I really don't see the problem with a coin that says copy clearly on it. If you don't like them, just don't buy them. For people that do like them, such is life. I can see the problem though how so many are afraid of tampering to remove the COPY but just how does it really hurt? Go to Walmart, Sears or Kmart and look at all the things made in China or so many so many other countries and none say copy, fake, etc. So many are direct copies of USA products and no one really cares.

Article for those interested:

http://www.coinworld.com/articles/b...-ebay-feb-2/

Is this just ebay US or other sites too?
I looked at announcements in US and Australia and no matches for a search for "coin" or "replica".

Jeff

That's a pretty optimistic statement. I can see this move cutting down on the overt sale of replicas but don't understand how it will have any effect on people selling replicas as genuine.

Now if ebay would do the same thing on Counterfeit Sports Cards.

The only conceivable benefit to this is the avoidance of replica-sifting. It does squat to address the deceptive fakes.

I'm guessing they studied their revenue streams, realized nobody was buying the replicas and generating them some auction revenue, and took the decision that it was a small price to pay for the potential favorable publicity.

At least, for anyone not thinking it through, which could describe a plurality of ebay buyers and sellers both.

Yeap it is much easier to make a fake coin and put in fake a slab and with real cert# number. Plus you don't have to worry about getting your weights right and most people are not going to unslab it to check to see if it is legit.

That 79s is quite deceptive at first glance. The S and B give them away.