Warning!!! Possible major scam! Please Report!

ifthevamzarockin

This ebay seller just listed 507 high dollar coins in the last few hours.
They have never sold coins.
The listing says Los Angeles but the seller is registered in the United Kingdom.
Look at how many 2020 W Gold V75 they have listed!
16,838 new listings in the last few hours!
High "buy it now" prices listed in item description.
Many ebay policy violations along with a good chance of being a scam or a hijacked ebay account.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money/11116/m.html?item=175167085500&_ssn=ledfirstchoiceltd&_sac=1

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=ledfirstchoiceltd&_sop=1

MsMorrisine

Possible?

MsMorrisine

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1071529/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this-before

ifthevamzarockin

Ooops! I missed that thread, sorry.

ifthevamzarockin

As mentioned in the other thread same seller/listings

https://www.ebay.com/usr/classiccover/

https://www.ebay.com/usr/ledfirstchoiceltd?_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2559

giantsfan20

That scam has ben in operation in the sports card market selling high priced cards from a unreleated business from a hacked UK account and selling off ebay.

Makes you wonder why EBAY cannot stop this type of activity?

ifthevamzarockin

On the phone with ebay now!

MsMorrisine

Userid’s in those sports card auctions?

IkesT

Perhaps this is a good opportunity to try an alternate way of reporting a problem eBay seller. I have been thinking about this for high-volume counterfeit sellers as well, where it is tedious, if not overwhelming, to report all of their listings. It would be interesting to see how effective this approach is, if more people would like to try.

Rather than trying to report all of their items, you can report the seller directly by following this link:

https://www.ebay.com/help/action?topicid=4022

Below is what you will see:

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After you select "The seller has violated one of eBay’s policies", you go to a page that looks like this:

The first choice is "Seller offered to sell a listed item outside of eBay" and you can add a written description in the text box. I've reported the seller already - I would be very interested to see how quickly action would be taken if we can get some more reports on this seller.

ifthevamzarockin

The ebay CSR said they will take care of it right away..... we will see how long that is.

moursund

@ifthevamzarockin said:
On the phone with ebay now!

Are you still on the phone with them? Ask them if I can have some eBay bucks for coins... 😉

ifthevamzarockin

Well it looks like ebay ended many of the coin listings for both accounts.

They left all the other bogus listings..... that's ebay for ya!

I don't know why they would not end all listings on both accounts when they see a major problem.

Edited to add: I don't see where they have ended any yet, it must have been a browser problem on my end.

ifthevamzarockin

@IkesT I used the link you posted to report both sellers, thanks for the link.

I also reported a bunch of the listings from the report button on the listing pages.

ChrisH821

I see we are on the same page. Bogus sellers for sure

MsMorrisine

The subject of coins should not be brought up again

Also, the drone on the phone obviously has no clue.

Speak to a supervisor. Selling off eBay should get them NARU’d

ifthevamzarockin

The only thing we can do is flood ebay with reports.

Please take time to report if you haven't already.

MsMorrisine

20,000 feedback

40,000 listed

A phone drone would be more effective, but until then I suppose they can be reported too

ifthevamzarockin

I just got this message from ebay that doesn't raise my confidence much.
I get this is after I talked to them on the phone. WTF?
Maybe I just thought I talked to them and I was just dreaming.

Thank you for contacting eBay. We attempted to call you as requested. However, while doing so, we noticed that the number provided was incorrect or out-of-date.

If you still need our support, please use the ‘Help’ link at the top of most eBay pages to contact us again. If you choose to have us call you, please ensure that the number that auto-populates when you click this option is a currently active phone number.

We look forward to hearing from you again so that we can assist you.

Thanks,
eBay

Please don't reply to this message. It was sent from an address that doesn't accept incoming email.

ricko

Wow... major scam artist.... I would think ebay could just do a blanket wipeout of their entire listings. Cheers, RickO

ifthevamzarockin

It's been 12 hours since my call to ebay and they have done nothing.

ebay cares

IkesT

Looks like all of the listings have been pulled, except for 1 stray listing from classiccover that they missed.

There are links to about 30 listings for each seller still visible, but all of those links are broken (except for the 1). Neither seller is NARU yet, but now that eBay is aware of them, I would suspect it is only a matter of time.

grote15

This outfit encompassing at least a couple of established ebay user names has been listing thousands of items using pirated scans and pics for sports cards and unopened sports card boxes and cases valued in the millions of dollars.