what are the common scams of ebay sellers?
ocstockpicker
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please give a list and what they mean.
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ocstockpicker
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- Offering an expensive coin that the seller doesn't actually possess, usually stealing photos from some website.
- Hijacking the account of another ebay seller with a good record, then using that account to offer items for sale that will never be delivered.
- Building up a good feedback record by purchasing cheap junk on ebay, then offering a lot of expensive items for sale.
- Sending fake "second chance" emails to unsuccessful bidders while pretending to be the seller, hoping the bidder will send money to the scammer.
- Sending phishing emails (emails which are designed to look like genuine ebay email) that contain links to the scammer's site. The idea is that the recipient will click on the link, and be directed to a screen that *looks* like the ebay login screen.
- Offering outright counterfeit/altered items for sale.
- Offering replica coins that have the required "COPY" stamp, but not showing the COPY stamp in any of the photos. This is usually done in auctions that have paragraph after paragraph of flowery language, and somewhere in there will be buried a reference to "tribute" or other weasel word(s).
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.