How Do I Report Counterfeits On The Bay?

Use the

eBay Auction Violation Reporting

link here on CCF

i gave up trying to expose dodgy sellers, I think I trod on someone's toes. now I just watch and hope some poorer person ( like me ) doesn't get suckered.

And that's the problem. If you can't tell them WHY it is a fake they are not real likely to pull it unless they get a lot of reports on it. Saying "It's just not right." isn't going to hack it.

Oh, I can easily say it's "something in the formation of the feathers on the headdress." The problem is that it's something my eye picks up that doesn't reconcile with how the coin SHOULD look, and explaining it is difficult. The best I can do is "the feathers have a clumsy look instead of the longer, full look genuine coins have," and "clumsy" isn't really what I want, either. The eyes and the vocabulary are having an argument, it seems.

The date definitely had issues, though. Aside from dates for this year being ugly (whose brilliant idea was it to add in that cramped date redesign? I hope the Mint never listened to him/her again), the numbers on this one were noticeably uneven and not the same size. There's a slight variation in size in the real copies, but that appears to be a stylistic thing--not numbers actually being uneven like this. (And the surface had that funky look. I almost want to say "cast," but unless it's very badly done, I'm nowhere near good enough to call those from a couple of bad pictures.)

It is not a matter of favoritism, the best way to get auctions yanked is to provide specific details on what ebay rules are being violated and/or specific diagnostics that determine whether a coin is genuine or fake. If the only thing you add when reporting is "coin is fake", then you will never be able to get an auction yanked. The customer service reps are not coin experts, they do not have the ability to determine whether a coin is genuine or fake. If you provide them with actionable information, the rep will either yank the auction for an ebay rule violation or pass counterfeit information to their Coin Community Watch Group(not affiliated with CCF) and then they will make the final determination.

Did anyone notice how he said the coin is in gem circulated condition? It looks like it was cleaned and very recently.

Ed
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I couldnt remember the sn but I think thats who I was thinking of. Seems like every time you hear scubu mention he reported something the link is dead almost immediately. If he is part of the CCW hes wise to keep it on the down low. Just imagine the amount of PMs he would get

Now if they could just rid the scum that busts open problem slabs and reposts after some doctoring.