Weird auction with expensive coin

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 36,917 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 19, 2019 3:48PM edited July 19, 2019 3:50PM

  The weirdest thing is his promising to use USPS 1st class shipping! LOL

  Some odd spelling errors in his other listings, most of which are pretty common and inexepensive items.

  All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

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• ArizonaRareCoins Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭

  July 19, 2019 4:55PM

  I feel sorry for anyone that thinks they would actually receive the coin pictured in that listing..

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• savitale Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 19, 2019 7:48PM

  Not clear exactly how this scam will play out, but clearly something is amiss.

  LIBERTY SEATED DIMES WITH MAJOR VARIETIES CIRCULATION STRIKES (1837-1891) digital album

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• skier07 Posts: 4,398 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 19, 2019 8:33PM

  This doesn’t look good. New seller (March 2019) with 99 transactions and 3 neutrals having previously sold inexpensive stuff.

  Run Forest Run.

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• csdot Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭

  July 19, 2019 8:35PM edited July 19, 2019 8:38PM

  Guess you start and ebay account March 30, 2019, spend 3 months selling 167 low cost numismatic items ("unsearched" penny rolls selling for .99 cents, and a few similar low-cost items selling for a few dollars more), then go for the home run?

  

  Indian Head $10 Gold Date Set Album

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• RogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 19, 2019 9:32PM

  

  Estimated survival, 350.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 20, 2019 4:05AM edited July 20, 2019 4:15AM

  My speculation on this sale is that the person is offering it hijacked the photo from somewhere and has put this up on eBay. Someone noted in another thread that Heritage sold this piece in an auction for over $60 thousand.

  Heritage last sold this coin in early April 2017 for $61,878.50. They have sold it two times before in 2007 and 2008. This is from the PCGS certification function.

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 20, 2019 5:21AM

  Evidence would indicate this is a scam....I hope no forum members are bidding....Cheers, RickO

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• gtstang Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 20, 2019 5:48AM

  https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/233240893853

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• gtstang Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 20, 2019 5:49AM

  Link above to apparent real seller on ebay.

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• earlycoins Posts: 282 ✭✭✭

  July 20, 2019 9:06AM

  Poof...

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• Ebeneezer Posts: 335 ✭✭✭

  July 20, 2019 3:45PM

  I'm with you, csdot. When buying any coin over fifty dollars I check the feedback. The higher the cost, the deeper I dig. As for the 1929, that post is gone. Guess that's the "poof" comment above?

  Why does EBAY as a company only have a phone number to call when voicing a concern over these fakes and those listing them? Or at least I have not found an email contact like most companies have. I guess they condone this as long as the money keeps flowing in. But have someone claim that they never received an item you sold them and they'll suspend your account. Despite proof in the form of a tracking number this happened to me in 2012. I no longer sell on their site.

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• Skrill90 Posts: 264 ✭✭✭

  July 21, 2019 3:15PM

  And its out of here... Good work y'all another scam taken down

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