Beware eBay Item/Seller

[rkkay-migration]

I checked out this item and got seller to send a scan of the date. For those of you not familiar with patterns, there was no design like this in 1872. I looked at the scan and blew it up and there seems to be a 3 under the 2 (i.e. an altered date). Also, the 2 seems fake, if you look at the shape. I emailed the seller and asked about the 3. He never responded, but previously said this was found by a house that had been demolished and that he was selling for a friend. BEWARE!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1394954997

[MarkFeld]

rkkay, supposedly, the seller was decent enough to note in his listing that he had received emails ( I sent him one and apparently a few other people did also) stating that the coin was altered or a fake. I give him credit for that.

[Hoot]

I've contacted eBay on a few cases of obvious fraud and they have NOT ONCE done a thing about it. For a couple of cases, they were the same seller repeating a similar fraud with different coins.

 

Hoot

[chrisfuccione]

F.Y.I Here is a list of all patterns for 1871-1873. CHRIS

 

link

[Oldtrader3]

The "two" has the definite look of having been tampered with.

 

EBay will not enforce it's rules. Don't expect much help from them. I am very interested in seeing the outcome of the Federal Investigation, but that is a different topic.

[Gunsmoke]

Ok, I'll bite. What Federal investigation?

[Oldtrader3]

Maybe I am incorrect, but I saw something in the paper about some Federal Attorney's looking in to their affairs.