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Is it OK to rip-off a buyer if it's for charity!

ArizonaRareCoinsArizonaRareCoins Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
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This guy just joined eBay and has put up a counterfeit 1910-d $20 coin. Apparently, he thinks it's OK to do this since he is giving 10% of his criminal activity to charity.
https://ebay.com/itm/-/192994971698/?rt=nc

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @santinidollar said:
    A historical reminder: Al Capone ran soup kitchens in Chicago.

    And the chicken wasn't really chicken.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,486 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 16, 2019 12:17PM

    The short answer is "NO" unless the victim knows he or she is overpaying for worthy cause. In the case the 10% might be going to the crook's pocket any way. Once you have established yourself as a crook, how much trust do you put in that person?

    OOPS ... the sale is "gone with the wind."

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    HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Poofed

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,446 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Listing has been removed.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

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    ArizonaRareCoinsArizonaRareCoins Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 17, 2019 11:09AM

    Crook seller has relisted this counterfeit again.......he is determined to rip someone off:
    https://ebay.com/itm/-/153569221420/?rt=nc

    He has also added an additional counterfeit:
    https://ebay.com/itm/1909-10-Gold-Indian-Eage-Coin/153569234716?hash=item23c1708f1c:g:x5wAAOSwMKVdLjIt

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,526 ✭✭✭✭✭

    whos charity? his kids college fund? just wondering

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    RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No.

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    HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 17, 2019 11:42AM

    It says feed the hungry.

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    logger7logger7 Posts: 8,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    But if you are incorporated, an LLC and bonded, you could sell unfiltered cigarettes, banned pesticides like DDT, sawed off shotguns and some of the most unhealthy foods and drinks and by saying you give all profits after expenses to charities that serve the very victims of your unethical conduct you are somehow a "good" company....

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,446 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @johnny9434 said:
    whos charity? his kids college fund? just wondering

    His charity is the "Weekend Beer and Legal Defense Fund."

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

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    coinpro76coinpro76 Posts: 366 ✭✭✭

    Report him.

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    WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ebay has removed the item.

    :)

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    Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭

    Ebay automatically keeps the 10% so it would have gone to charity.

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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @logger7 said:
    But if you are incorporated, an LLC and bonded, you could sell unfiltered cigarettes, banned pesticides like DDT, sawed off shotguns and some of the most unhealthy foods and drinks and by saying you give all profits after expenses to charities that serve the very victims of your unethical conduct you are somehow a "good" company....

    Ronald McDonald House was a great ploy.

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    Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No

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    ARCOARCO Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I prefer to give my charitable dollars directly to the organization. When it goes through Ebay and a fraudulent seller, well, call me skeptical.

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    logger7logger7 Posts: 8,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ARCO said:
    I prefer to give my charitable dollars directly to the organization. When it goes through Ebay and a fraudulent seller, well, call me skeptical.

    And that is some good advice; a investment pro was talking about ethical investing, only in companies that pass the various tests of what is good. After looking at all the interconnections of investments, he concluded it was better to just take your profits and give a portion to the right charities, where say 90% of the money is getting to those in need.

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,858 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The road to hell was built on good intentions.

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