Ebay's Worst Offerings

[Coinery 1,147]

Oh, please, give me a break...I was watching this as a possible purchase for myself, as it looks highly suspicious, particularly when looking at the obverse and obverse edge.

All of £60 with postage? C'mon, WTF is going on out there? 301337754998

[Paulus 1,975]

link to Stuey's eBay coin

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301337754998?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D301337754998%26_rdc%3D1

Edited October 10, 2014 by Paulus

[Coinery 1,147]

You're a gent, Paulus!

[Paulus 1,975]

You're more than welcome

What's your thinking?

1. if genuine, that coin went for a song
2. if fake, yet another buyer got stung and may never know
3. the jury's out
4. all of the above

[Coinery 1,147]

You're more than welcome

What's your thinking?

• if genuine, that coin went for a song
• if fake, yet another buyer got stung and may never know
• the jury's out
• all of the above

If genuine a lot of money for a horrible, Woolley-looking, lack-lustre, coin.

If a forgery, which it looks to be ( the reason I wanted it), and I would've paid a 'genuine' price for it (but it soared above that), then someone's got a useless piece of unattractive old rubbish.

[Coinery 1,147]

There are so many suspicious looking, but unconfirmed, hammereds out there, that I wish I could afford to win them all and investigate them in hand, and by scale, and by acid, and by god! By god I do!

[Paulus 1,975]

Amazing the lengths some buyers will go to. I just sold a coin for the princely sum of £1.91 and received an eBay email from the buyer stating that he miss-typed and meant to bid £1.01. The bidding history clearly shows a number of bids for the coin, including 4 from the successful buyer, only 1 of which could (but probably wasn't) have been £1.91.

Good grief.

[Rob 3,152]

I think many ebay buyers think it is now a right that all things should cost 99p (with free P&P).

[Gary1000 41]

I had a disgruntled buyer who couldn't understand why his bid had jumped so much when he bid above the reserve I'd set. He was going to complain to ebay about it.

[azda 979]

Enay at its best. Chancing every little nook and cranny they can to get something as cheaply as possible. Ebay has made it impossible to sell anything on there withouz BS in some shape or form

[bagerap 706]

Maybe not one of the worst, but would you buy it?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221562674576

[davidrj 194]

not at that price

[Peter 615]

Our any price.

[Paulus 1,975]

Id buy it at 99p as I could sell it on at a profit (probably)

[scott 144]

looks TB/TB to me :/

[Bronze & Copper Collector 412]

looks TB/TB to me :/

I'm on my cell phone.. small screen, however I concur...

I see nothing to indicate a beaded border on either side... The reverse is toothed and the obverse appears to be the same...

I can't determine the Freeman number from the images though... If I was forced to hazard a guess though, I would lean towards an F-13....

Poor quality coin and small screen conspire against me...

Edited October 23, 2014 by Bronze & Copper Collector

[Peckris 579]

looks TB/TB to me :/

I'm on my cell phone.. small screen, however I concur...

I see nothing to indicate a beaded border on either side... The reverse is toothed and the obverse appears to be the same...

I can't determine the Freeman number from the images though... If I was forced to hazard a guess though, I would lean towards an F-13....

Poor quality coin and small screen conspire against me...

Interesting views. The reverse definitely looks beaded to me.

[Peter 615]

I've had a couple of looks but doubt has been put in my mind(it is awful and i wouldn't every like it)

[azda 979]

One for the bin in my ooinion

[Bronze & Copper Collector 412]

looks TB/TB to me :/

I'm on my cell phone.. small screen, however I concur...

I see nothing to indicate a beaded border on either side... The reverse is toothed and the obverse appears to be the same...

I can't determine the Freeman number from the images though... If I was forced to hazard a guess though, I would lean towards an F-13....

Poor quality coin and small screen conspire against me...

I've just taken a closer look on a larger screen and indeed the obverse does appear to be a round bead border making the coin an F-8 although I can not be 100% sure from the images.......

A VERY POOR and undersireable specimen though.... if indeed it is that variety after all....

Edited October 24, 2014 by Bronze & Copper Collector

[scott 144]

it is the reverse I have more issue with, cant tell if they are beads or teeth.

[Michael-Roo 781]

Either way, a truly horrible specimen. Wouldn't give it house room…..

Edited October 24, 2014 by Michael-Roo

[damian1986 142]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181475765706

Nothing new to see here, but there are a few of these types of sellers who occasionally list the odd item of numismatic interest / some decimal so I have never blacklisted them but I am now going to.

Regarding this one specifically, it's out of order to use Percy Metcalfe to market such a horrible piece of shit.

I only recently came across this which he designed: http://brentmuseumandarchives.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/metcalfe-lion-1924.jpg so for all my time wasted hunting through crap on eBay at least I stumbled across something useful.

[Michael-Roo 781]

Nice Metcalfe photo.

Regarding this recent splurge of fantasy and repro coins produced and offered in editions of 18/20 or whatever: 3D printers are now capable of executing these from a powdered precious metal base. Something to consider?…...

[damian1986 142]

Nice Metcalfe photo.

Regarding this recent splurge of fantasy and repro coins produced and offered in editions of 18/20 or whatever: 3D printers are now capable of executing these from a powdered precious metal base. Something to consider?…...

Interesting. There'll be a market for it.

I've got a few things off eBay this week but otherwise a frustrating experience.