I just came across this auction site on Coinsheetlinks. It is run out of Greece.

UncleWiggly

It's not an eBay type setup. More like Heritage's continuous auctions format. I went ahead and registered and will be bidding on something in the currency. If I win I'll report back and let everybody know how it worked. The prices are in euros, but you can change it to $. They are setup to take Paypal payment. Wish me luck!

www.alibabacoins.com



Jerry

gxseries

Are you sure it isn't a hoax site? I kind of remember that someone was spamming that site in another coin forum.

UncleWiggly

I'm not sure. That's why I put it up here. Which other coin forum are you talking about?* Also, is there anyway to confirm with paypal that the site is legit? They have the Paypal symbol thing. If it is a fake site, some one needs to hijack it and use it for their own. It's setup really nice. I did get a "complete registration" email. I'll do a querie whois. Maybe that will tell me something.




Jerry

*I just went to coincommunity and saw the replies there. Thanks.

SYRACUSIAN

The site is 100% legit. I know the owner, he sells on ebay too, his handle is 4223john. Remember that your purchases through the site are subject to 15% buyer's comission.

UncleWiggly

Thanks Dimitri. PM sent



Jerry

gxseries

Drimiti - a whole forum was affected with his spam.

To me, regardless of what intention that was for is nothing more than a spammer, regardless of legit or not.

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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:56:53 -0600
Hello gxseries

You received the following message from: panosbaba
(info@alibabacoins.com)

At: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/

Dear collector,

We present you the auction 10001 including coins from around the globe
from around 1600 to today, European blister sets, BU and proof coins,
commemoratives, coins in their boxes-certified, and certified slabbed
coins, banknotes of international interest, ESSAI struck coins gold and
silver hammered coins and medals.

Go to www.alibabacoins.com



Next to the auction we present our online shop with Buy Now coins.
Their variety and availability will be renewed frequently. This moment they
are some new items added in the list. Go to Buy Now Items.



Auction 10001 closes on Sunday 18th of December at 18:00 Central
European Time(CET). Our future auctions will close on Sundays as well, we
renew our appointment for then.



Friendly

www.alibabacoins.com

The staff


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SYRACUSIAN

John is a very nice guy and I've done business with him several times this year. Here are a few coins that I bought from him ,some of which were resold later :











My latest trade involved several banknotes from my part for which I got 3 wonderful talers from dr Kurt Peters collection, here's one of them:







edited to add that I was unaware of that spamming. He has invested a lot of money in that site and eventually made a few mistakes in the beginning, regarding its promotion mainly. But I can assure everybody that the items that he has for sale are as described and generally better looking in hand than in the photos.

ajaan

I've looked at his website and I'm very impressed, especially how you can zoom in on coins.

UncleWiggly

I think it is a really nice site. But it does sound like they blew it on the spam thing. I read the email you received and I'm bummed out. I'm a member of coincommunity also and I didn't get one!!! And, I wouldn't have minded it at all. But, that's my personal view and do respect your opinion on the matter.



Jerry

ajaan

BTW, I have seen some of John's coins in person, they are very nice and accurately described for the most part.

gxseries

Perhaps indeed it was a bad mistake during the initial promotion - unfortunately it did make a bad impression on me. Just by looking at the site's name and that reminded me of reading such email - just shows how much I hate spam. But again, that was almost half an year ago - I'm sure people learn