A $200 bag of uncirculated 1942-S war nicks.......

rbf

Yep, it was a scam alright.

NOT A REGISTERED USER

WinLoseWin

Chanced across this update on another site:

http://www.cointalk.com/t212257/



Here is the link to the LA Times story about the Ebay seller being charged. Looks like Paypal took the hit and all buyers were made whole. What a shock that he has a criminal history:


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/culver-city-man-charged-in-world-war-ii-nickel-scam.html

coindeuce

As posted by Twinturbo in his thread, the following link sums it up quite simply. Culver City, Ca. man charged with Grand Theft in silver war nickel scam

I'm disappointed that forum members here played into this greedy scam.

Edited to add: looks as though WinLoseWin scooped this one.