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Making a mint off fake errors on eBay

sc999sc999 Posts: 47 ✭✭
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Been seeing a lot from this seller lately - fake mint errors created by pressing two together with a vise. He includes the caveat "Restruck or Damaged" in every title to minimize the bad karma. Still crazy how much these are selling for and no complaints from buyers. Unethical or respect the hustle?

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  • CregCreg Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 36,786 ✭✭✭✭✭

    don't respect what is happening

    thinking about it, hustle can have positive connotations. hustle is too nice of a term for this

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    On that Kennedy, he was careful to squeeze an area onto the coin where you couldn't tell the lettering was backward. He only allowed the uni-face letter 'Y' to show.
    Borderline evil......

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 37,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unethical

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  • Morgan WhiteMorgan White Posts: 11,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • safari_dudesafari_dude Posts: 295 ✭✭✭✭

    And he has bids on every single auction he has up. Wait till a few send their coins in for grading…….

  • MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I looked at a few of the auctions and nowhere does the seller claim that they are error coins. They aren’t even listed in the error coin category. They don’t look like any legitimate error either.

    That said, it is clear what the seller is doing, and while I think buyers should educate themselves before buying any coin online, this seller is one to avoid.

    However, I imagine most folks on these boards know that already!

  • sc999sc999 Posts: 47 ✭✭

    @MedalCollector said:
    I looked at a few of the auctions and nowhere does the seller claim that they are error coins. They aren’t even listed in the error coin category. They don’t look like any legitimate error either.

    That said, it is clear what the seller is doing, and while I think buyers should educate themselves before buying any coin online, this seller is one to avoid.

    However, I imagine most folks on these boards know that already!

    That's the beauty of the grift - the listing is vague enough for plausible deniability, but buyers clearly think these are errors.

  • CregCreg Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @sc999 said:

    @MedalCollector said:
    I looked at a few of the auctions and nowhere does the seller claim that they are error coins. They aren’t even listed in the error coin category. They don’t look like any legitimate error either.

    That said, it is clear what the seller is doing, and while I think buyers should educate themselves before buying any coin online, this seller is one to avoid.

    However, I imagine most folks on these boards know that already!

    That's the beauty of the grift - the listing is vague enough for plausible deniability, but buyers clearly think these are errors.

    No, seller is conscious of the lie by using the word or, instead of and.
    In the context of numismatic restruck is a lie too.

  • SullivanNumismaticsSullivanNumismatics Posts: 856 ✭✭✭✭

    A lot of people ask "why was this made" when it comes to fake errors--this is a good example of "why" (of course, numerous other reasons as well--boredom, curiosity, just random damage, etc.)

    www.sullivannumismatics.com Dealer in Mint Error Coins.
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have heard that education is expensive. Some learn the hard way.

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Total grift... but that's just "par for the course" these days.

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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Time for a bidding frenzy and 2 of you guys bid the thing up to twenty million dollars

  • CregCreg Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This guy offers pieces of a cut up sheet of dollars bills—

  • rooksmithrooksmith Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭✭

    I just answered one of those EBay "feel good" surveys where they try to appear to be "listening" , like how was your last purchase. I said basically, "Great, but your site sucks because of all the fake listings. overpriced fake errors, counterfeits and blurry photos. How about a little bit of self policing. Its a graveyard of fake listings these days"

    “When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.” - Tommy Smothers
  • rooksmithrooksmith Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭✭

    For example:

    “When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.” - Tommy Smothers
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 37,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Creg said:
    This guy offers pieces of a cut up sheet of dollars bills—

    Interesting.

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