About Time! July - EBay creates New Categories for Coin Copies & Reproductions

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• Robb Posts: 2,034 ✭

  July 2, 2008 2:09AM

  -replica*, -copy has always worked for me.

  RIP

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• dac076 Posts: 817 ✭

  July 2, 2008 2:09AM

  That's the best idea they've had in some time.

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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 2:12AM

  This is a start.
  
  eBay will probably rely upon complaints from users to identify the listings that are in the wrong category now. So, I don't think we can treat this as 'problem solved' yet. It's part of the solution. Now, it's a matter of educating the sellers as to where to list their goods.
  
  

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• dorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:02AM

  
  
  << <i>That's the best idea they've had in some time. >>
  
  i agree! weeding through the moronic replicas, copies, fakes, tributes, blah blah blah sucks!
  
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• cmerlo1 Posts: 7,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:19AM

  Just because it's there doesn't mean people will use it...

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• Wolf359 Posts: 7,663 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:29AM

  
  
  << <i>-replica*, -copy has always worked for me. >>
  
  
  
  reproduction, "proof coin", tribute, drives me nuts...

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• Wolf359 Posts: 7,663 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:30AM

  No, they won't use it because no one surfs in those categories for long.

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• jdillane Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:35AM

  Remember that ebay encourages sellers to list in multiple categories to boost final values so this will not help at all unless they mandate that copies and repros be only listed in the copy category. Wouldn't that be nice?
  
  

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:55AM

  When I list an item ebay encourages me to list in multiple categories to increase their fees. When I accidently list a coin in the wrong category, all that happens is that less people see it. So what will keep sellers of replicas from continuing to list in the category for the real ones? --Jerry

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 5:58AM

  
  
  << <i> About time for the scamsters. New List >>
  
  
  
  BTW, selling a properly marked copy, as almost all of them on ebay are, is not a scam. It is just a PITA to find a real one mixed in. --Jerry

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• COINB0Y Posts: 4,505

  July 2, 2008 6:19AM

  By all rights, these should NEVER be listed as US Coins because they are NOT.
  
  I bet this is the start of forcing all copies, reproductions to list under the 'right' category.
  
  You have to wonder about the idiots who win these auctions and actually think they got a real coin despite what it says.
  
  

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 7:38AM

  
  
  << <i> You have to wonder about the idiots who win these auctions and actually think they got a real coin despite what it says. >>
  
  
  
  Don't think there are many, if any, of those. They list them under the real coin category to get traffic and views, not to fool anyone. --Jerry
  
  

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• RichieURich Posts: 8,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2, 2008 8:16AM

  I also would prefer that all copies, reproductions, "tribute" coins, etc. be in the COPIES & REPRODUCTIONS category rather than clutter up the coin categories. Seated dollars, for example, has appx. 5 pages, of which 4 are copies!

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