It is very "interesting" to see how the guy obtained
his 20 feedbacks...buying recipes for coffee (0.99$), recipes for donuts( 0.99$), recipes for hotdogs (0.99), cajun recipes (0.99), a picture of a
dog (0.50) and two items for 0.02$!!! But the very best is the book "How To Generate 100 Feedback in a week, With resell rights included", the first item he bought...
I would laugh if the
money involved, even if it is not mine, was not so much!
It is easy for me to say people should check, really check the seller's feedback before bidding on these
rare coins, but truth is that many a novice collector does not know how to discover this kind of tricks...SIGH!
Years ago I too fell for them...At those times, long before I discovered this
Forum, I was looking for a
Mariniana antoninianus, a
Paulina denarius and a
Didius Julianus denarius, and I found it on
e-bay. They were very "well preserved" and I made an offer on them, thinking I would be certainly outbidded because, of course, "such
rare coins would certainly attract many, wealthy bidders". Instead, to my surprise, I won all the three coins.
I don't exactly remember what happened next, but I recall that even before the coins arrived, I began to suspect they might be
fake...as I recognized them to be as soon as I got them in my
hands. I remember I wrote a complain to the seller and he tried to fool me by telling me he
had cleaned those coins himself...
That was a lesson I will never forget and that pushed me to
search for ways to educate myself better and to improve my knowledge about coins,
style, dies, letters,
weights etc.
Nowadays, I cannot say I am
good as many of the people on this list, for I
still have much to learn, but, at least I know such evident
fakes will never fool me again!