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JohnZ
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Look at this 1793 Half Cent. I'ts an electrotype that went up for auction about a year ago by a reputable dealer who sold it as a copy. At the time, I bid up to $200 for it as it would have made a nice addition to my Half Cent type set, even though it's a copy. This guy has managed to convince some people that it's real, and now the bidding is up over $1000! His feedback is just as fake as the coin.
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Russ, NCNE
<< <i>I really can't conjure up a whole lot of sympathy for the bidders. Hey, greed works both ways and it takes two parties to make a scam work >>
I have to concur. There are giant neon billboards all over these auctions. Plenty of these bidders are in there simply because they think they might be getting a rip and they're blinded by dollar signs.
Russ, NCNE
My answer is, though the bidders may be equally greedy (or just plain ignorant), at least they are not lying and trying to deceive people, like some of the sellers, whom we've discussed here, are.
I can't totally agree with you because they are lying and deceiving themselves into thinking that they are going to pull one over on everyone and get this screamin' deal on the coin. If it ended there I would probably would just shrug and walk away, but these are the exact same people that will blame everyone and everything except themselves when they realize thast they've been duped.
I still think the sellers are far worse, though.
I guess that it's really a matter of deciding which cesspool is more full! I don't plan on crawling down there to check it out.
Just take into account that these are the very same buyers who will run to you ready to cash in on their great buy and then call you a dirty rotten sob for telling them that their rare coin find is a fraud just to try to steal it from them.
In his ad he describes how he is not the legal owner of the coin.
Any item of value that is "found" is required to be turned over to the police. If the legal owner doesn't claim it, then they will return it to person who turned it in. Only then does legal title pass to the person who found it.
You should contact eBay and tell them he's selling stolen property - he admits it in his ad.
Not that eBay will care
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It is handy and out of the way and.............hello.............what's THIS???
A pile of old coins. Let's see.........
1794 dollar, 1804 same, 1793 penny with funny links all over the back, 1808 $2.5 gold piece, 1796 quarter........gee, the guy who lived here must have been OLD..........1797 half, a gold coin with a big star on the back..........goll-eee!
Well, I don't know much about these, but you guys seem to..........so...........I'll sell them to you based on the above description for anything over $500,000. They look like new coins.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>This Chain Cent is a counterfeit, and you knew that as soon as you listed it. Most of your coins are fakes, and it's obvious you're a scam artist. You have been reported both to eBay, and to the FBI field office in your state. They are on to you, and it would be in your own best interest to shut down your fraudulent auctions now before it is done for you by the authorities. Just a fair warning...Russ >>
Maybe that'll worry him enough to get him to close the auctions before a bunch of people get ripped off.
Russ, NCNE
Russ, NCNE