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tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Dear tradedollarnut,
I'm the seller of the item that you've recently bided through the eBay system.
Item name :1873 TRADE $ CHOICE UNCIRCULATED COUNTERSTAMP JBC Item number:140172455226 and i`ve just been contacted by the eBay staff who informed me that due to some reasons the eBay policy automatically proclaims you to be the winner by default because i want to end my item. I need your agreement on this so I can contact eBay to confirm you that you're the winner, otherwise I'll relist the item. I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I need an answer asap to rhichar3dgerer@gmail.com including this email from eBay.
What is your price for my item ?You have oportunity to purchase my item if your offer is resonable for me !!
Waiting for your answer! Best regards!

ebay auction
Early Dollar Set

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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    I never saw one of those before image

    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    that seller has ALWAYS creeped me out. good luck dealing with that
    seller.
  • OldFishingLuresOldFishingLures Posts: 54
    Sounds like a scam to me, or whats called Phishing ...Notice he is redirectling you to a "free" email (Ie google, hotmail, yahoo)....Auction never ended still goin....

    Wouldnt even reply....Just my HSO

    Matt

    My Ebay Auctions
    Antique Fishing Lures
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No reply .... send to ebay..... this looks way too fishy... Cheers, RickO
  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That seems like a scam that I would forward to ebay and otherwise ignore.
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    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
    how do I forward it to ebay???
    Early Dollar Set
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Yep, sounds like phishing. If you didn't receive the message through the ebay message system too, then I would be convinced it was phishing.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Weird....I know he is one of the premier listers of coins in 'second tier' TPG holders, and screamed publicly about Ebay's new policy. Sounds like he's either trying to work a side deal to avoid fees, or the auction is ending soon (or ended, I haven't checked) and he doesn't feel the last bid is high enough.
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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    someone here probably has bought from this seller before
    and will recognize the email address. Will someone help tdn out?

    I am curious because that is a strange email.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a scam I just got the same thing on a 1941-S Walker that I won. It is because our ebay names, and screen names, and email's names, are the same I think.

    Oh and it is not from Centles.

    Forward it to Spoof@ebay.com
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Once you sign into ebay and go to your My ebay page you can scroll to the bottom of the page to the link for Security Center and this will take you to a page where you can report various problems.
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

    image
  • hubirdhubird Posts: 589
    yeah, I was about to say that looks too familiar and it's probably not from centsles.

    I had to report some fool that pulled this on one of my accounts a while back.
  • airedaleairedale Posts: 505 ✭


    << <i>how do I forward it to ebay??? >>



    spoof@ebay.com
    John
    Chance favors the prepared mind.
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From your e-mail page, with the suspicious e-mail opened in front of you, hit the "forward" button. Then in the space where the "send to" address goes put spoof@ebay.com
    When in doubt, don't.
  • cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 6,010 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I know he is one of the premier listers of coins in 'second tier' TPG holders... >>



    I'm thinking third tier.
    Many happy BST transactions
  • StampAlarmStampAlarm Posts: 1,668 ✭
    TDN, I'm taking it you're not/weren't on eBay's list to provide a 800# for customer service? I know, it sucks, that's
    why no more eBay for me.



    Jerry
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Phishing scam. Contact Centsles through the "ask a seller" feature if you want to confirm this with him.

    Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>someone here probably has bought from this seller before
    and will recognize the email address. Will someone help tdn out?

    I am curious because that is a strange email. >>



    That's not the e-mail addy for Centsles that I am familiar with.

    Edited: PM'd TDN
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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I forwarded it to spoof
    Early Dollar Set
  • ModernCrapNutModernCrapNut Posts: 2,086 ✭
    It's certainly a phishing e-mail. Any mail sent through ebay would have had your actual name in addition to the user name. Copy and paste it into the body of an e-mail and send to spoof @ebay.com


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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    I'm the seller of the item that you've recently bided through the eBay system.

    Even though senseless is a sleaze (in my opinion) I believe he's more literate than the above sentence would indicate.
  • sweetwillietsweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭
    I bookmarked that auction, and figured that it would shoot up once some people saw who was bidding on it. Now at $437, a far cry from where it was a few hours ago.
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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just to pile on...I recently bid on, received and then returned a coin to Centles and though I deleted the email already (easy return at least, but what was that green stuff in the slab?????) I can tell you the emails were polite, friendly even, not to mention literate and signed by a chick. Your email smells to high heaven!


    Cathy

    edited to add, it wasn't a fly-by-night slab--I'm not that dumb with Centles, it was a top tier one too....and I do have to compliment the return service--no hassle but frankly it shouldn't have been listed in the first place!

  • mike92694mike92694 Posts: 1,068


    << <i>Dear tradedollarnut,
    I'm the seller of the item that you've recently bided through the eBay system.
    Item name :1873 TRADE $ CHOICE UNCIRCULATED COUNTERSTAMP JBC Item number:140172455226 and i`ve just been contacted by the eBay staff who informed me that due to some reasons the eBay policy automatically proclaims you to be the winner by default because i want to end my item. I need your agreement on this so I can contact eBay to confirm you that you're the winner, otherwise I'll relist the item. I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I need an answer asap to rhichar3dgerer@gmail.com including this email from eBay.
    What is your price for my item ?You have oportunity to purchase my item if your offer is resonable for me !!
    Waiting for your answer! Best regards!

    ebay auction >>



    First, there are quite a few misspellings. Note the use of "bided" instead of "bidded", the reverse apostrophe, etc. Note the e-mail address refers to Richard Gere, a famous actor (at least here). Grammar is bad too, probably someone from out of the U.S.

    Mike
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    isn't it against ebay rules to list "Choice Uncirculated" in the title?

  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    i just forward the copied email to abuse@gmail.com asking for them to look
    into it and delete the account.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>isn't it against ebay rules to list "Choice Uncirculated" in the title? >>



    No you just can not have number grades or PCGS/NGC or what ever unless it is a certified coin.
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
  • SomeGuyFromMichiganSomeGuyFromMichigan Posts: 377 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a scam.
    The auction is still running.
    Ebay never contacts a seller to tell then that an underbidder is the winner, never!
    Report it.
  • jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭
    do not click on any links and forward to spoof@ebay.com they will send you a form email confirmation they receceived it and in a while they will send you another email with the results of what happened
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭
    opps guess I should finish reading the thread before I start typing
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like someone is trying to rid of centsles from ebay entirely.


    Leo

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭
    Why wouldn't Ebay contact you if you were the highest bidder, or send something to all bidders? His email doesn't sound like something ebay would do.
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • Tyler1924STyler1924S Posts: 1,328
    He just sent me an email advertisement 10 days ago. The email address is centsles@gte.net

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