Another eBay scammer stealing pics

bennybravo

eBay Link for 1886-O PCGS61

Item for sale at Alpine Numismatics.
Alpine 1886-O PCGS61

His only other auction is for a $10 Lib., also for sale by Alpine.The eBay seller list his location as Jonesboro, AK, and Alpine is in Colorado,
so I'm pretty sure this isn't just a new Alpine account.Anyway, I remembered seeing that 86-O, and wanted to point out this auction in case someone here was watching it or wanted to make sure nobody got stung by this guy if someone has one of those "scambuster" type ebay accounts.

numonebuyer

Great catch.

Numonebuyer

lordmarcovan

Maybe he bought it from Alpine, and they haven't updated their site yet.







Yeah, suuure. Right!

K6AZ

Yeah, there is a real winner with a feedback of 1, makes me want to bid.

I have never dealt with or heard about Alpine, they seem to have some nice coins. Anyone deal with them?

littlewicher

It's also interesting that his only feedback came from someone's account that was created only two days after his. Hmmmm...... Looks like a scam to me.

JJacks

Sorry for the dumb question, but what is this guy's most likely purpose? Just to get a check from a bidder and never send a coin? I mean anyone could claim to be sellling 50 auction of $20 Gold coins and just show a generic picture and get a ton on money illegally, but why go through the trouble of stealing a specific picture that someone who is interested in this coin may have already seen (if they look at Alpine coins sometimes).

Just curious as to what the main idea in this type of scam most likely is.

JJacks

Barry

Eric,
I bought a slabbed coin from Alpine once. Easy deal, quick shipping, no problems.

bennybravo

Same here, I've bought from them once,no problem deal, nice coin as pictured.

bennybravo

Apparently he decided to cancel all bids and end both auctions early.

K6AZ

OK, that's good to know. They seem to carry some better date Morgans at fair prices.

Russ

And, another happy ending. Excellent.

Russ, NCNE

kamehameha00

glad it ended well

jdimmick

It doesnt make sense to me. Why go thru all that trouble to copy a specific picture as some one mentioned.

Open an account, sell a few cheap coins with a-1 service, get some feedback, then put on a whole bunch of some mid priced gold or better yet, somehting hot that there is a lot of, like quarter rolls, etc and sell a few hundred, then not send the stuff, keep the money.


The internet has been great in the past few years, it has given me the opporitunity to shop nationwide for specific key dates being offered, but with that has come a whole lot of shady people and crooks. In fact, I have done so little buying in the past 6 months due to all the scams, that I mainly use it for just a viewing opp. When i do buy from e-bay, its only with known persons, national dealers, etc.

jcping

I bought many coins from Alpine before. All coins with good quality and okey price. They seems did not like to negotitate price ;-(

doops

<< <i>Yeah, there is a real winner with a feedback of 1, makes me want to bid.

I have never dealt with or heard about Alpine, they seem to have some nice coins. Anyone deal with them? >>


david olmstead carries a wide array of early coinage catering to serious folks. known him and dealt with him over coin net for 15-20 yrs. he is always fair, both directions and also accurately grades raw coins whether anyone is "looking over his shoulder" so to speak and has always been
well respected and recieved by both the collector and dealer community
he's likely got your needs for bust and seated larger denoms at true and fair levels
and that is for real.

K6AZ

OK, thanks for all the info on Alpine, I have added them to my list of dealers. And I actually understood your post this time!