Here's a Lesson in False Advertising

Check out this guy's coin auctions, and the phoney headers and
descriptions:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZferrareco

And, I guess by eBay standards, he's legit.

Columbo

Looks like typical coin show wares, at least in the part of the world where
I live.

James

"COLUMBO" wrote in message
ups.com...
Check out this guy's coin auctions, and the phoney headers and
descriptions:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZferrareco

And, I guess by eBay standards, he's legit.

Columbo

I don't understand what is throwing up the red flags. Is it because he's
overgrading?
B

"James Higby" heezerbumfrool[at]hotmail[dot]com wrote in message
...
Looks like typical coin show wares, at least in the part of the world
where
I live.

James

"COLUMBO" wrote in message
ups.com...
Check out this guy's coin auctions, and the phoney headers and
descriptions:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZferrareco

And, I guess by eBay standards, he's legit.

Columbo

I just don't see any serious false advertising.

"COLUMBO" wrote in message
ups.com...
Check out this guy's coin auctions, and the phoney headers and
descriptions:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZferrareco

And, I guess by eBay standards, he's legit.

Columbo

On 6 Feb 2005 13:26:26 -0800, "COLUMBO" wrote:

Check out this guy's coin auctions, and the phoney headers and
descriptions:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZferrareco

And, I guess by eBay standards, he's legit.

He is selling an 1884-S repro, which he mentions in the description,
but fails to mention in the header ... is this what you are referring
to?

And, like everyone else, he overgrades -- but as always, if a coin is
not certified, this should be taken with a grain (sometimes a kilo) of
salt.

I don't see anything out of the ordinary here, although I certainly
don't find his coins at all attractive.

--
Bob Hairgrove

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:55:16 +0100, Bob Hairgrove
wrote:

On 6 Feb 2005 13:26:26 -0800, "COLUMBO" wrote:

Check out this guy's coin auctions, and the phoney headers and
descriptions:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZferrareco

And, I guess by eBay standards, he's legit.

He is selling an 1884-S repro, which he mentions in the description,
but fails to mention in the header ... is this what you are referring
to?

And, like everyone else, he overgrades -- but as always, if a coin is
not certified, this should be taken with a grain (sometimes a kilo) of
salt.

I don't see anything out of the ordinary here, although I certainly
don't find his coins at all attractive.

Actually, the 1884-S is probably genuine (but not AU as he claims, I
would give it an XF at most -- look at the smooth eagle breast
feathers), whereas the 1893-S is a copy as well as the 1895 "PROOF"
preceding it in the list.

--
Bob Hairgrove