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Azurescens
Azurescens Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It's listed as 1945 FSB and obviously is not by both the ngc grade and the photo.

The title says FB, and listing says "virtually full split bands". A 10k coin listed for 4k.

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How do you even report something like this? Or am I missing something?

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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,749 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's called hype. I can't believe anyone who collects FSB Mercury dimes will be fooled.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Azurescens
    Azurescens Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's a little more than dishonest, wouldn't you say?

    The title specifically lists an item that does not exist.

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,749 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    More misleading than dishonest. I consider it to be click bait to get potential buyers to open the listing to check it out more closely. This is a perfect example of why one needs to read the listing description carefully and use due diligence and common sense. Caveat emptor.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • jmlanzaf
    jmlanzaf Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Azurescens said:
    It's a little more than dishonest, wouldn't you say?

    The title specifically lists an item that does not exist.

    Totally disagree. It says "virtual FB" and it is slabbed. There is no deception, just a little hype as @PerryHall said.

    It's no different than adding "blazer" to a Gem Morgan or "Monster" to a toned Morgan.

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

  • Coinstartled
    Coinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Or near prooflike to any BU Morgan.

  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yep ... Hype.

  • Hemispherical
    Hemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Interesting choice.

    “Virtual,” definition from from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

    -Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name.

    -Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.

    -Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network

  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,604 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    seller lives in a world of virtual reality

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The seller is a virtual hype artist... :D Just keep going.... So much out there is just sales hype...reminds me of the old coin shows on TV... saw one once and turned it off in disgust....Cheers, RickO

  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Driving too fast for conditions.

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    hype. some one will get worked up over it, jmo

  • BuffaloIronTail
    BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,765 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Hemispherical said:
    Interesting choice.

    “Virtual,” definition from from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

    -Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name.

    -Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.

    -Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network

    Me thinks that "virtual" in the description was really supposed to say "virtually".

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • Hemispherical
    Hemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BuffaloIronTail said:

    @Hemispherical said:
    Interesting choice.

    “Virtual,” definition from from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

    -Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name.

    -Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.

    -Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network

    Me thinks that "virtual" in the description was really supposed to say "virtually".

    Pete

    Agree. The suffix has the same definition.

  • astrorat
    astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Having virtually fully split bands is like being virtually fully pregnant.

    Numismatist Ordinaire
    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
  • DennisH
    DennisH Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What he's doing is called factual misrepresentation.

    When in doubt, don't.

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