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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A friend of mine e-mailed me about this one. Man does this smell fishy. Odd thing is he claims he scanned the coin but it looks like a stock photo from another site. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...34393809&ru=http://search.ebay.com:80/search/search.dll%3Ffrom=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=140134393809&fvi=1 Edited by Ken_3567
07/01/2007 9:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If he has what he claims to have, he's got a bundle.
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 United States
6563 Posts |
Looks like the photo was scanned out of a book.
I can understand being new and ignorant of buying coins but buyers don't even read descriptions anymore...so sad.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just sent him an e-mail asking him to send me picture of all 5 coins. I'll post the response if I receive one.
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United States
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I just did the same thing....ain't I a stinker!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
651 Posts |
I found the photo. It's from wikpedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:..._Quarter.png I saved it locally and turned it into a black & white image and it suddenly looks like the photo in the auction. Now if I can only find 5 of these I'll be all set.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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He responded to my e-mail with: Response from rabbitfarmer112 rabbitfarmer112( 126) Positive feedback: 100% Member since: Jun-17-01 Location: AL, United States Registered on: https://www.ebay.com Item: This is an 1796 coin is in very good shape ( 140134393809) This message was sent while the listing was active. rabbitfarmer112 is the seller. I will try to put a photo of all five coins in listing if I can. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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MAN what a loser! Not even a convincing scam, either. I hate slimey pieces of @#$% who take from others instead of earning their own way. I reported it to ebay. I want so bad to PM him telling him what a POS he is, but I don't want him to muck up my auctions in retaliation. |
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Second response from seller when I insisted he send me the pictures to my e-mail quote:
Thanks for being interested in my coins I took an advise of another EBayer and took them to a dealer this morning and glade I did he is going to sell them for me at an auction house. He said I would never get what one was worth on here.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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No way, no how does anyone just "find" five 1796 quarters. Only a complete loser would scan a page out of a book/auction catalog and then try to sell the "coins"  |
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He got scared and he ran....smart thing to do But ya gotta love this.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Doh! I should of thought of that years ago! I can actually increase the coins in my collection by duplicating the photos.  |
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United States
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His auction say's "The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale." Mr. graceoutcast, you might want to e-mail him back and ask him which auction house he is auctioning them off at because you (we) are interested. I'd like to hear his response.
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I'm interested in his response but he knows we called his bluff so he ran.
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I had to e-mail him again just to be a pest. We'll see what he says...
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WHY HASN'T ebay SUSPENDED HIS ACCOUNT?! |
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Posted 07/01/2007 9:25 pm
