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Offline Virgil H

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Fake Etsy Sellers?
« on: August 07, 2022, 09:23:25 pm »
Having major issues posting this, trying again.

I don't think I have seen Esty sellers listed on the fake sellers list. I was looking at Esty for something else and ended up looking at some coin seller sites. I am not an expert, but everything I saw looked fake or at least things I would not take a chance on. Rather than put in a link now, not sure the rules on that, I am putting in a couple pictures of what I think is a fake. This seller has many that look like fakes to me. And, other sellers I looked at were also suspect. Description of this coin:

Unique Unreserached Ancient Roman Greek King Old Bronze unique Tetradrachm rare coin

There was no attribution beyond this vague description.

Edit: Having trouble with file sizes on the uploads, trying again

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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2022, 09:38:32 pm »
OUTCH ! The second picture is from the seller ???
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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2022, 09:47:35 pm »
Yes, both from the seller. Not all his coins have edge pictures, LOL.

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Re: Fake Esty Sellers?
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2022, 10:45:43 am »
I will list Etsy sellers too (with Etsy in parentheses after the username).  Please provide the username and a link to the seller's items. 
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Re: Fake Esty Sellers?
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2022, 06:05:33 pm »
OK, here is the specific listing for the coin I downloaded pictures of. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1165162384/unique-unreserached-ancient-roman-greek?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=petasos&ref=sr_gallery-1-10&pro=1&frs=1

Name of seller is CrystalballStore, link to store front is https://www.etsy.com/shop/CrystalballStore?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=1165162384

He/she sells a lot of things, including lots of ancient coins and artifacts. Based in Thailand. So, y'all can take a look to make sure I am correct.

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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2022, 09:33:25 am »
Clearly a fraud. Adding to the NFSL.
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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2022, 01:01:32 am »
Please distinguish "Esty" from "Etsy". I think the original post referred to the latter, "Etsy". Can this be fixed throughout? 

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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2022, 07:32:15 am »
Esty does not exist. This seller is on Etsy and is identified as such on the NFSL. It is a typo.

Fake coin report please.
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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2022, 08:19:31 am »
Poor Warren, you don’t exist anymore !
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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2022, 06:20:46 pm »
Poor Warren, you don’t exist anymore !
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I agree with Warren - Forum posts are picked up by Google.
The post titles at least need to be corrected, as I have done.

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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2022, 02:06:02 pm »
OK, I changed them. I didn't think it was worth my time, but...
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Re: Fake Etsy Sellers?
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2022, 04:19:43 pm »
Sorry, I tend to transpose letters at times, thanks for correcting my typos.

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