eBay Masochism
gorebels
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Thought I’d see what I’d get. I knew I’d likely have to make a return trip to the post office.
What I got:
Seller offered me a $10 refund if I kept the ‘coin.’ I returned it.
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At that price you should've known.
I ain’t even gonna bother to ask why is the delivery date out of chronological order?
"3 sold, more than 10 available". Why would you waste your money on something like this?
Tuition paid on this one
Make sure you aren't the one paying the return shipping for an item not as described like this.
There's no Santa Clause in numismatics.
Not to mention only one feedback for the seller.
I have seen offers like this for key date Lincolns, where the sellers joined only a few weeks ago, or that they say “Hong Kong”. My concern is that they will learn from their listing errors and make them indistinguishable from legitimate sellers.
Once that happens, I fear that the bad sellers will flood out the good, and the naive buyers will get fleeced.
If eBay cannot or will not police their listings, we will see if they remain a viable platform, or become unusable due to self-inflicted indifference.
eBay sucks and you’re helping them suck more.
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You should be able to get a full refund without returning it, since it's fake, but it's probably best to have the seller pay for return shipping on top of that. The account will probably be gone shortly after you get your refund.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
The tip-off is the price and the date.
Whether it’s browsing eBay, perusing coin dealers websites, or walking a bourse floor, I always stick to trusted, well-known dealers.
You likely won’t get that screaming once in a lifetime deal, but you also won’t end up with a counterfeit coin.
As mentioned above, there’s no free lunches or Santa Claus in this hobby.
Sad though that new collectors are the most vulnerable to the scumbags.
As my mother would say, you’ll find sympathy under S in the dictionary. .
Between s[p]it and syphilis.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Is there not some recourse with law enforcement anymore? I mean they are counterfeiting US currency, likely a Chinese, e.g. foreign government sanctioned enterprise.
My father (ex Marine) used to say that!!
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As others have said it’s ‘tuition’. At least you were smart enough to return it. Even if you had kept it, it would only have been $23. That pales in comparison to what some of us have had to pay.
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https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Guys, this was just my curiosity to see what quality counterfeit I would get. There’s no ‘learning’ anything on this coin; I’ve seen many like it. I wasn’t surprised.
Yes, I returned the coin. I paid no return shipping; no “tuition" paid. And I drive by a post office every day.
More masochism… seller refused acceptance of the returned counterfeit after eBay sent me a return label.
Next step? Phone eBay.
Seems like an exercise that would not be worth my time.
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Seller refusing to accept the return? Now you'll get your refund AND get to keep the "coin".
Ebay will still refund you once the return is delivered back to you (you may have to wait 2 or 3 days). I would leave negative feedback which, hopefully, Ebay will not remove since the seller was un-cooperative on the return. They should not remove the feedback anyway, but, as I mentioned in a thread a few months ago, as long as the seller accepts the return and refunds the buyer, they will remove negative feedback if the seller requests it, even if they deliver blatantly fake coins that look nothing like the auction photo.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1113192/ebay-if-you-sell-counterfeits-you-can-get-negative-feedback-removed-as-long-as-you-refund-the-buyer#latest