The pros on this board will probably scoff at my analysis- they say you should judge and evaluate the coin, not the seller. That’s the real way to do it (after all, even an honest seller might let something slip through the cracks).
I don’t have the expertise for that, so I have to do it the hack way:
* that seller has only been a member of
Ebay for about 7 months
* the seller has only around 253 feedbacks- not very many
* a huge number of
his reviews are from the same buyers and are “private listings”
* the lots that are listed are also “private listings”- those are
red flags. Not sure why anyone would set up a listing on
Ebay that way.
* the seller is from
Bulgaria — you can sue me for nationalistic profiling, but I won’t buy anything from an
Ebay seller in eastern Europe, including (especially) Ukraine and
Russia.
There used to be a sticky on
Forum’s site that gave a great description/ profile of a
fake Ebay seller.
There are some legit sellers on
Ebay, but don’t forget that even a big-time, veteran seller might sell a
fake without realizing it.