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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
4411 Posts |
Who in their right mind would buy that as a 1914-D with all that convenient damage around the first 4.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2077 Posts |
The buyer deserves it. Looks like the alteration was done with a pen knife 3 minutes before the photo was taken.
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Valued Member
United States
275 Posts |
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Moderator
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4897 Posts |
I dont usually...but I feel bad for the fool that bought that. Guess its true...you cant fix stupid.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
Even a perfectly done alteration is easy to spot. At least they could have attempted to hide the fresh blood.
Filling this date is killing me. Just can't get over the fact that I can get a really nice 31-S for a buck and a quarter, but this date in sad shape is even more.
On a positive note, maybe I now have a buyer for my 1799 cent.
Edited by OldSkoolMadSkilz
06/15/2012 12:49 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
This one looks a little suspicious! Buyer beware!  |
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Valued Member
United States
227 Posts |
You know what the funny thing is, ebay makes it rough for honest sellers with all the fees (who have small margins), but makes it perfect for people that counterfeit and just try to rip dumb people off. A counterfeiter has low costs and really high margins... they dont get hurt by the percentage based fees, and, they really benefit from the massive amount of traffic ebay gets. Eventually an idiot comes by and they win... its just a matter of time.... ebay really needs to step it up or try to do something given how much they charge people. Hire more experts to take these listings down. Or maybe they could start by forcing sellers to have a return policy on any raw coin. I mean, it would really improve their reputation along the way anyway. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How much more obvious can the alteration be? Short of listing it as altered. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I can't believe someone paid $99.00 for a coin in very obvious condition that it was altered to look like a 14D.  I've seen some altered ones that actually wasn't too bad but, this one really stands out.  |
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Locked
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Quote:You know what the funny thing is, ebay makes it rough for honest sellers with all the fees (who have small margins), but makes it perfect for people that counterfeit and just try to rip dumb people off. If one single person that took 10 minutes to whine about it, took 1 minute to report it instead, it would have been removed within hours. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not even a good alteration. I too wonder why no one reported this as it was very obvious.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1211 Posts |
Wow! Someone actually bought it, too!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
Notice how the supplied photo put shadows in the area around where the VDB would show. Very convenient.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Wow! Someone actually bought it, too! Maybe the seller threw in the pen knife as a free gift for the buyer? Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith |
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Posted 06/15/2012 12:31 am
