That's the point though, isn't it?
Genuine coin sells: ebay get paid.
Fake coin sells: ebay get paid.
Fake coins sells at inflated price due to shill bidding: ebay get paid more.
Where, exactly, is their incentive to do anything about it? If anything, they tacitly encourage it whilst pretending it's not allowed.
Its terrible a huge company like ebay do not have a couple of coin experts to sort these fraudsters out. After all they must be raking in millions on coins alone. Here's another case finishing tonight (Thursday 10.10pm) of a kew gardens 50p being sold at auction . Standing at £63 just now. No mention of it being a copy and still on sale even though i reported it. Its a minefield out there!!
I know. The only way the evidence could be put towards them was by photograph unless they where willing to come direct to your door for an explanation of why it was fake.
I find their attitude towards it shoddy at the least. If Declan had not persisted the case they would of been favouring the seller (fraudster). Happy it was sorted eventually.
I don't undersand why so many people appear to hoard these copies by burying them. If you want them to be out of sight and out of mind, surely the large grey hidey-hole on wheels that gets emptied every week or two would suffice?
It had a f******g good collection for a regional electricity company . Mind you, if one woman can power the whole of the north-west, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised at anything.
Freeman 73 - older portrait with crimped tie ribbons that don't touch, reverse with close date and slim lighthouse. BUT it is a rare 7 over 7 example - BP1874Nn with very few examples recorded - see Michael Gouby's book "The British Bronze Penny - Victoria - 1860 to 1901" Page 67.