Coin World article about the Chinese seller photoshopping PCGS slabs

K6AZ

If you remember a few weeks ago the Chinese seller who had among other things the 1800 "MS58" dollar, the story is in this week's (Feb 7) issue of CW. What I didn't know before was that PCGS was involved in shutting him down.

ziggy29

<< <i>What I didn't know before was that PCGS was involved in shutting him down. >>

eBay, take note.

Hedger

Yep. There is a previous post about the auction. Someone found it, posted it here on the forum and soon eveyone was talking about it. Oh, what fun it was to see this jerk nailed.

ss350camaro

Here's one of them.

RonMan

I missed that original thread but that photoshop job is soooooooo bad.

AU75

Steve27

Personally, I thought that coin was an AU 79.

jcping

AU75 ..... how about Fake-75

Tsimmerdown

Is he considered to be a "wannabe dealer?"

DorkGirl

I wondered how those auctions got pulled so quick!! Thanks for the heads up

K6AZ

From the article:

PCGS Mike Sherman said he was made aware of the alleged scam through the Coin Community Watch Program that eBay operates. A number of collectors alerted PCGS through the program, and the grading service took the steps to ensure that the questionable auctions were completely removed from the eBay files, he said.