1925 Australian Penny - Scarce? Not Any More.

Hello all

I've just sent a message to the seller of that $620 - plus $7.90 for registered postage - 1925 Penny sold 15.1.2018 congratulating " it " on the " magnificent " range of very good replicas " it " has available, AND the very good replicas " it " has sold with the assistance of known dual ID " friends "
That 1925 Penny : - how on earth could anyone NOT see the different style of the date's details to start with, and the obvious overseas work of the Penny ?

But, then again, there are numbskull wood ducks out there who are easily mislead by the unnatural blinding glare from the coin(s) being offered.

Still, fools and their money are soon parted.

CoinOS, I respectfully have to disagree with you about it being OK to buy a copy coin. With almost 100% certainty the manufacturers of copy coins don't have the noble standards that ethical sellers have. They will use the money they make from selling copies to finance and perfect their product until they can produce fakes that cannot be picked from the genuine and then sell them to dupes. I'm not going to finance crooks that will kill this hobby.

We'll as far as my understanding of business goes, is if people become aware, or begin to suspect, that the " "goods " anyone is selling isn't " Kosher ", or is in some way of doubtful quality, and/or authenticity, then they will stop buying that/those "goods". Word gets around quickly when people start realising that they are getting duped.

Businesses selling the doubtful quality and/or authenticity " goods " will go out of business quickly.

It doesn't matter at all whatsoever where the " goods " of doubtful quality and/or authenticity come from, because it is consumer sovereignty which determines what, how many and for what price goods are purchased.

It's simple, really. If dodgy dishonest sellers are named, and people stop buying their " goods ", then what would be the point of those dodgy seller(s) continuing to import " goods " that are of doubtful quality and/or authenticity? These dodgy seller(s) might still be a little human, and not want to be caught with a lot of unsaleable " goods " and lose a lot of money. (although them losing a lot of money, instead of only all those they deliberately deceived, would be pure justice )


nealeffendi

it appears as though you're well versed in things going on. However, it matters not one iota where the " goods " come from, nor what the producers of the doubtful quality and/or authenticity " goods " might or might not do with the procedes of the " goods " they produce. If there isn't a market for what they produce they stop producing.

If consumers can be readily made aware, or warned, that X seller(s) are dodgy, then if the consumer(s) who become fully aware that the X seller(s) are deceptive cheats ( gaining property ($'s ) by deception, knowingly importing with the intention of deceiving via an electronic medium, portraying counterfeit Crown currency via electronic medium in photographs, as genuine with the intention to deceive, etc, ) , then, and only then can we, as potentially affected Australians,- united in our quest - can begin to completely stamp out this rapidly growing scurge.

We can just keep on writing about this dodgy seller or those " artistic and creative " Chinese until we're blue in the face, or our fingers start becoming stubs from all the keyboard writing ; If something doesn't sell, then there isn't a market for it, so what's the point of producing it ?

In other words - and you can disagree with what I've written - if the dodgy seller(s) cannot sell their " fractured " overseas made imported " goods " , they get caught with a lot of their unsold " fractured " "goods ", and, like the
consumers they deceptively sold many " fractured " " goods " to, they will also lose a great deal of money.
So, are we going to just keep making each other aware of this and that dodgy eller, or, are we going to start naming and shaming ?

The ball is in OUR court .

SMRP..i have to agree with NeaL on this one,as I posted before its getting to the stage on ebay where its risky to buy a raw Coin.
It will probably get worse before its gets better,allowing fake anything to flood a market only ends up in tears for all parties.
Its time ebay banned all replica/fake Coins & Notes and the people selling them.

Golfing friend was in Hong Kong about 5 years ago and there were several shops selling Oz.(and other Countries as well)fake Coins,you could buy either one with 'Replica' stamped on or one without,they were both exactly the same Coin.
The same with the Perth Mint Gold bar fakes,the ones that go out the front door have Replica stamped on them,the ones that go out the back door and the vast majority have nothing on them to distinguish them from the real item.
They have the packaging almost perfect with rotating genuine numbers.
Jungle out there.

Basil is correct about the difficulty of buying off ebay (and not just coins but golf clubs and many branded products). So many potential buyers won't bid on coins (that are genuine) because of the risk of fakes. That costs the genuine seller serious money. As I can sometimes spot tiny die markers for genuine coins I have sometimes purchased such genuine coins very cheaply.

You can't cheat an honest man. If the buyers had not talked themselves into believing they had found a jackpot, an expensive coin at a bargain price, they would still have their money in pocket. They got greedy, and taken, as a result.