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Pillar of the Community
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Once upon a time I used to just report the seller. But thanks to SSuperDDave challenging my preconceptions, I e-mail sellers to give them a chance to pull bad listings (which I just did).
Hopefully this a new seller who will heed and respond to my e-mail.
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It is fine people have already ased about it and I let them know that is isn't real but a restrike.  My response (which will be the last time I correspond with this person): Quote:
Actually, it is NOT a restrike but a very poor fake. There was a restrike that was done in 1879 by J.W. Scott and what you have posted is not that.
Please believe me when I tell you it is counterfeit and this most likely will end badly for you. |
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Its not a scott restrike. Its is a mint restrike for a suvanear. I'm done.  |
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On occasion, I've written to sellers about similar souvenir items. The response, if I receive one, typically boils down to a question of the seller either being or acting ignorant. On occasion, I've received kindly responses for taking the time and making a well-intentioned effort to save the seller and potential buyer some grief. Sadly, such pleasant occasions have been few. In the long run, I've come to the conclusion that most folks tend to better learn the "hard" way. Whether it's coins or some other topic, there seems to be a tendency, nowadays, on the part many folks, to "kill" the messenger. People far prefer to listen to people who tell them what they want to hear, want to believe. While I'm rarely too shy to tender an opinion, I'm increasingly of the mindset that, "Who am I to want to deny a person of a valuable (costly though it may be) learning experience?"  |
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People far prefer to listen to people who tell them what they want to hear, want to believe. Amen!  |
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I like how the seller spells "suvanear" Hes perty smaart yuo now  |
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It's 1:51 EST and the listing has been removed!
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I would like to thank coinskelly and exoguy for saving the bidders and performing a public service
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Pillar of the Community
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Without the CCF and similar forums, such favorable happenings wouldn't be nearly as possible.
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I would like to thank coinskelly and exoguy for saving the bidders and performing a public service
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Let's see how high this probable CSA half dollar copy goes! I don't think ExoGuy had anything to do with getting it removed or helping any bidders. I however, took the opposite approach and took 30 seconds of my very busy life to actually report it.  |
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That made 2 of us!  (but I did lose a few minutes trying to see if this was just an ill-advised seller ) |
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Sorry scubu, I didn't know you were the person that helped everybody out on this one  |
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Thanks, Scubu ! While I've reported a number of "bad" auction items over the years, this wasn't one of them. ebay has ignored some of my reports, and I thought that this would be another of those. I'm encouraged by their fairly quick response to your report. Does ebay consider some reporters as being more credible than others? |
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Posted 11/30/2012 12:10 pm
