Yep. Seems to pay off for the scammers. sigh
Yep. Seems to pay off for the scammers. sigh
Don't paypal hold money for a while after the purchase to protect buyers?
How do you "call" ebay? They actually answer a phone?
Don't paypal hold money for a while after the purchase to protect buyers?
No, thats just if seller is new on paypal.
After some success transactions paypal release money instantly after a sell, still you able to open a dispute under the time
I just received mine from USPS. It's a small, flat bag with a poorly forged US 50 cent coin. I don't even know there is such a thing.
I guess I will have to discard this to prevent being sued for importing forged currency.
I got mine last week, but overlooked it until yesterday. It's pretty funny, gold colored, with "LIBFRTY" on one side and "epluribusonum" on the other. Legally I think we're supposed to turn them in to the authorities. But I plan to keep mine as a novelty if the seller doesn't want me to ship it back. In that case I'll turn it in to the cops and get a receipt. In your case, I'd wipe it off carefully, wrap it in toilet tissue and throw it in the trash away from your home or work. I *think* if you mark it "counterfeit" it is legal to have it. But the risk is not a lawsuit, but a criminal proceeding. You definitely don't want that.
I tried to find someone selling them on Alibaba.com, but did not find an exact match. If you have small hands they are a good size for coin tricks. I did see a set of 4 "silver" and two "gold" coins but with different dates and better workmanship. But still obviously fake if you're familiar with the real thing. But for someone in China a safe "silver into gold" trick coin set very appropriately sized for an adolescent magician.
I tried learning coin tricks when I was 13 or 14, but it's really hard work. You really have to put a lot of time into it. I preferred escapes which I got really good at. At 15 I could do the "Siberian Transport Chain" trick so fast that with 3-4 people surrounding me they couldn't figure it out. After they had locked me up, I'd spin on one heel and drop the chain on the floor. I repeated it several times before they finally gave up trying to figure it out. I also did the "100 ft of rope" escape. Though you can't have people watching while you do that one.
I wanna see it... both sides.
The "milling" does not extend across the entire edge. I tried posting it next to a real coin, but the file was too large and Dave would not let me do it.
Lol, that's better than I was expecting. I bet you could spend it!
Not even if I offered it to a blind person. I think it's part of a child's magic set. I think it's being done as a way to borrow money for short terms at low cost.
If the seller falsely sold 100 units, after expenses he'd have about $4000 which he could use to start a legitimate operation under a different name. I'm sure they do something similar on Wall Street all the time.
Not even if I offered it to a blind person.
Wow, that's a pretty poor counterfeit job. It's been a long time since I've seen a 50-cent piece in circulation, but I could instantly tell that Kennedy's profile was wrong. Then you see the funky eagle leg, the incorrectly rotated lettering, etc.
I've seen similarly poor manufacturing in some Kickstarter projects where the project owners have to reject the prototypes multiple times before they're done mostly correctly.
Yes ebay does have phone support they are located over seas and some of the people will just fight with you like its their money. IF this happens don't argue for more then a minute just hang up and call right back to get another person. I bought a 12.00$ beofung from a seller with a lot of positive feedback back but I was pretty sure it was a scam but bet on getting my money back if it was. 30 days which is how long the last one took (that one was 39.00 free shipping, so if it was a return maybe 12.00 was doable) to get and no radio I sent one email didn't hear back so immediately called ebay to get my money back.
First rep says you only have 30 days to dispute and its been 40. So I tell her had she ever used ebay before she clearly had not, that's how long it takes from china. She keeps fighting for 15 minutes, saying it's paypals fault then when I told her paypal is ebay she said call my bank they will give you the money back. I told her that's not how it works in America and the bank isn't an insurance policy for Chinese scammers when the money went from my bank accont into a paypal/ebay a US held company. I was getting ridiculous. I just said "Look up this account in the last week all their feedback turned from positive into negatives and every person says its a scam for the same radio, Ebay needs to catch this, ITS 12 FUCKING DOLLARS EBAY HAS BILLIONS JUST REFUND IT!!!!" So she wouldn't refund, I got the manager and got my money back after about a minute. So lesson is if they give you a hard time just get another person.
Remember ebay makes money off the scam too and they lose a lot if that person cashed out their paypal. I'm sure reps are told or given rewards for lowest number of refunds given how hard that first lady fought me. I'm sure through no fault of her own that $12 is probably a whole days pay, but not to ebay it's not.
I wonder if that fake coin says LIBFRTY on purpose so it's not seen as counterfeit but then again its so close to real money the secret service would want a look at it. If you get caught in the US with counterfeit money you have to give it to the police lose the value of it, and the secret service wants to know your info and you have to tell them where you got it from or all the places you shopped since you got it. When you see fake notes on the walls at the store behind the register technically that's illegal and they are supposed to turn it in.
But I have also seen Chinese things that could have got away with making their product look real if they just spent five minutes on google. Seems strange to put in all that effort but undermine it by not doing the last step. Like fake chips where they get the part number wrong or leave "Operator: J doe" on the packaging.
Why did they send anything in the envelope at all? Send a fake coin and now you have counterfeit currency which is much worse then counterfeit goods, 50 cents doesn't exactly = $60.00, you could have made money selling the coins as magic trick coins or something. You also can't say "we made a mistake and sent the wrong item". I often wonder if its not laziness but sheer stupidity hence why they don't have a real business.
From item's description:
Beware of counterfeit items sold on eBay
Yeah I saw that too. No mention of fraudulent ones that don't exist...
I'll go up to 30 days to see what it will give me ... 8 items bought after me ... was and still 5 items left ...
sure : 100% GENUINE PRODUCTS, Beware of counterfeit items sold on eBay
But you may end with nothing loll 100% still genuine loll
well received this :
We had to remove this listing from the site and you're not required to complete the transaction. If you've already sent payment, the sale should process as normal and you don't have anything to worry about. If you have any questions about delivery, please check tracking or contact your seller. If you run into any trouble along the way eBay is here to help. Please visit the Resolution Center to help resolve any problems you may encounter.
well received this :
We had to remove this listing from the site and you're not required to complete the transaction. If you've already sent payment, the sale should process as normal and you don't have anything to worry about. If you have any questions about delivery, please check tracking or contact your seller. If you run into any trouble along the way eBay is here to help. Please visit the Resolution Center to help resolve any problems you may encounter.
Interesting, your link still works only now the price is USD 104
Ebay switched to another seller, the fun is : try to contact ebay to cancell your purchase an Ebay says you did not buy the thing .... when the sell items where removed its like they never existed in ebay, and youre stuck with nothing to call ebay or make an complain to an fraudulent sell
And now i have to rely to the ''ebay purchase protection'', a real joke, have to wait and go thru the delays ...
Ebay switched to another seller, the fun is : try to contact ebay to cancell your purchase an Ebay says you did not buy the thing .... when the sell items where removed its like they never existed in ebay, and youre stuck with nothing to call ebay or make an complain to an fraudulent sell
And now i have to rely to the ''ebay purchase protection'', a real joke, have to wait and go thru the delays ...
I guess that's the price of admission when you try your luck on one of these "too good to be true" deals.
Chances are eBay is stuck with the bill after the scammer ran off with your money. One could argue that responding to deals like these is encouraging scammers, as they might make off with some of the money.
And now i have to rely to the ''ebay purchase protection'', a real joke
Ebay buyer protection is fine and works well. But you have to follow the steps in the right order and let it happen in the right way. It's not something you can invoke on a whim because you're bored of waiting after deliberately abusing it.
Is the nearly zero chance of getting an item for a low cost on an obviously fraudulent auction worth all the downsides? You need to spend time getting your money back and even though you'll be refunded from eBay/Paypal, you're still helping the seller get their money for a fraudulent auction. You're also giving your details to a scammer so you may end up as a target of
brushing or worse.
Update
Something has been shipped, is it my 2x ordered de-5000 loll
Maybe counterfeit quarters (cost-cutting measure
).
And the seller oirqwv-4 dissapeared loll
Ebay removed it.
@tsman you're right
And the irritation is : you wont be able to give bad feedback to the seller user name, Surely get back under a new name
My purchase became invisible in the purchase history ?? WTF
But i've take screenshots loll managed to request refund before he dissapeared, Ebay will ventually step in .... and once again we loose time and patience thru the Ebay system
And yeah i was too fast to buy it