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Seller with 0 Feedback - would you trust this guy?

Look at this auction and tell me what you think...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220169986594

For the most part it seems legitimate; the only thing that strikes me as a little suspicious is how emphatic the seller is about being so "clueless" about coins. Also, I asked a simple question about shipping over 12 hours ago and have yet to receive any type of response.

What else (if anything) can I do to "check up" on this seller to be sure it's not some kind of scam?

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  • << <i>Look at this auction and tell me what you think...

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220169986594


    What else (if anything) can I do to "check up" on this seller to be sure it's not some kind of scam? >>



    Search > lots and collections.

    not sure if it is a scam but, the auction photos belong to another seller.
  • Selling coins belonging to the "uncle" who lived to be 98... There are recent PCGS slabs, NTC slabs, I even see a Star Grading Service slab. Uncle would have had to have been buying/collecting until about age 95. Not a good itemization of what is there. Seller feigns ignorance as to the value. I don't believe a word of it.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,683 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a pretty typical eBay come-on. Not necessarily a scam, but not a great way to spend one's money, either. He doesn't even include a list of what-all the lot consists of. Kind of smells "grab-baggy". There's nothing wrong with buyin' a pig in a poke if it's for a cheap, fun, impulse buy, but when you start talkin' about anything over ten bucks or so, who wants to gamble? A pig in a poke with a four-figure pricetag? No thanks. Might be a nice pig or two in the poke, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, blurry pics, third world slabs, and a big story-How can you be sure what you will get? This is a stay-away-from auciton.
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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    RUN FOREST! RUN !!image
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • TexastTexast Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭✭
    I just love the folks that have no idea what they have, then take a picture like this, making sure to place all the keys in the picture with dates obscured. What a joke!

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  • TavernTreasuresTavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭
    I do not believe his story. But, if it was true, his uncle's body isnt even cold yet (died a few weeks ago) and he is already selling the collection.
    Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
  • Dollar2007Dollar2007 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭
    Who would bid so much, you can't even tell what your getting.

    Edit: maybe that is the good thing about it, if he truly doesn't know what he has.
  • It also appears to me that his friends are helping him out with a few shill bids to keep things moving along.
    Crazy old man from Missouri


  • << <i>It also appears to me that his friends are helping him out with a few shill bids to keep things moving along. >>





    Over $2000 ,but hey, his friend that knows coins wanted him to start the bidding at $150.

    Buyer gets $200 in protection from paypal.

    Hmmm, no return policy.

    0 feedback.



    P.T. Barnum was right.



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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,385 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "strikes me as a little suspicious is how emphatic the seller is about being so "clueless" about coins."

    I work on the premise that:

    If one is really "clueless" about something they won't invest much in writings in an attempt to convince you of the same. Real "cluelessness" is very subtle.

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Real "cluelessness" is very subtle. >>




    Huh? image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He's acting stupid. You have two choices: Smarten up or be stupid.
  • I still say 99% of eBayers start out buying first. If they are sellers with zero feedback, then I assume it's not their first/only account.
  • compromonedascompromonedas Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It also appears to me that his friends are helping him out with a few shill bids to keep things moving along. >>





    Over $2000 ,but hey, his friend that knows coins wanted him to start the bidding at $150.

    Buyer gets $200 in protection from paypal.

    Hmmm, no return policy.

    0 feedback.



    P.T. Barnum was right.


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    Sorry no PAYPAL
    I except paypal and shipping and handling will be sixty dollars image

    Keithimage
  • Dollar2007Dollar2007 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭
    It was taken down.
  • Too late. What was the coin being sold?
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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