Binlord of the week on ebay

[modofantasma]

9 minutes ago, dicker said:

Where to start with this shocker…. Could be genuine but £500…..free postage though!

@Silverlocks what do you think grade wise?

1 minute ago, dicker said:

There are real oddities on eBay this one (non pm) is just bizarre. Money laundering? Chancer?  No idea!

 

 

24ct gold baked beans perhaps

[Silverlocks]

28 minutes ago, modofantasma said:

@Silverlocks what do you think grade wise?

Seen worse on your listings.

Edited January 1, 2023 by Silverlocks

[flyingveepixie]

47 minutes ago, dicker said:

Where to start with this shocker…. Could be genuine but £500…..free postage though!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134393463848?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=c4tAOOYQSpm&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bYgKomkjQOW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Looks like it's been gnawed by one of the rats up at my allotment!

[pricha]

15 hours ago, Solachesis said:

On top of the fact that the coin looks incredibly dodgy, I was under the impression there was no quarter sovereigns until 2009.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155336110526?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=P1JZ_MhISny&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=z1wqlu01szc&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

It crossed my mind , for £6.50 someone might just want this out of curiosity.. it looks awful and probably should be binned but someone might be happy to have a small flutter on it just to see what it is ? 

[pricha]

8 minutes ago, flyingveepixie said:

Looks like it's been gnawed by one of the rats up at my allotment!

Again someone curious may have paid below scrap gold price but £500 😂  looks cleaned to me. Probably ex jewelry. 

Edited January 1, 2023 by pricha

[Fishface220]

1 hour ago, James32 said:

Looks like someone tried to improve an edge knock and got carried away.

This springs to mind

[Silverlocks]

57 minutes ago, dicker said:

There are real oddities on eBay this one (non pm) is just bizarre. Money laundering? Chancer?  No idea!

 

 

 

I think this stuff tends to be a screen for other transactions, of which money laundering is one possibility.  Perhaps the participants get some sort of plausible deniability.  Also, you can take money from Ebay into a paypal account and then send it elsewhere or buy crypto with it without drawing it down into your own account.  I guess there's also nothing stopping one from paying from a pre-paid card for the 'purchase.'

There are also quite a lot of privacy and confidentiality laws in various jurisdictions, and there is money in confidentiality, so I suppose it raises the bar to requiring the rozzers to know what they're looking for to identify dodgy transactions.  However, I have no idea how effective it would be against heuristic AI type searches.

Given that folks have been doing this for some years now, it must be at least somewhat effective for whatever it's being used for.

[dicker]

I’m pretty sure EBay shares information with HMRC, but none the less it is very odd. 

[Petra]

37 minutes ago, flyingveepixie said:

Looks like it's been gnawed by one of the rats up at my allotment!

Well, just sitting in the ground wouldn’t have done that to it?🤔🤔

[Silverlocks]

Just now, dicker said:

I’m pretty sure EBay shares information with HMRC, but none the less it is very odd. 

It does assume Ebay has enough information to connect the dots.  If you're not registered for VAT, all Ebay has are whatever address and contact details you provide, and it doesn't stop you from paying through a pre-pay card.  I have no idea how the other end of the transaction works.

[Fenlander1]

Here's another binlord I think

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185720658586?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=lLcGW5vmTRG&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=XV_rZwRPTDu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[bluffer]

seems legit

 

 

apart from two negs and most of the positives seem to be him buying stuff. 9999 and serial nbr(?) looks weird on the half crown. and he comes from kirkcaldy

[Britannia47]

1 hour ago, bluffer said:

seems legit

 

 

apart from two negs and most of the positives seem to be him buying stuff. 9999 and serial nbr(?) looks weird on the half crown. and he comes from kirkcaldy

This coin is a ‘Tiddler’ (16mm) Made from 9 carat gold from Tristan Da Cunha!😀

Edited January 2, 2023 by Britannia47

[MonkeysUncle]

On 01/01/2023 at 15:08, Fishface220 said:

I’m pretty sure it won’t let you leave feedback if eBay refund you? I may be wrong but it would let me last time I had an issue

Oh yes it does - one thing ebay gets right - the ability to report a dishonest seller, get your money back from ebay and publicly call them out.

Thing is they won't go further and kick the sons of b£%@#÷× off the platform. Too many $$$ for them to lose out on I reckon...

[Solachesis]

On 01/01/2023 at 14:33, Mtaybar said:

They know what they're doing.  preying on people's naivety and putting a flimsy, wet disclaimer with the "what we think is...." it's gross

He would never knowingly do it 🙃

[Petra]

1 minute ago, Solachesis said:

He would never knowingly do it 🙃

After messaging him about this, I have had a message off this one this morning… ‘40 years of selling stamps’, ‘honest’, ‘haven’t you ever made a mistake?’ etc. so I just deleted the message😮🤔😁

[Petra]

Probably just for sale in his shop now🤔

[Mtaybar]

3 minutes ago, Petra said:

After messaging him about this, I have had a message off this one this morning… ‘40 years of selling stamps’, ‘honest’, ‘haven’t you ever made a mistake?’ etc. so I just deleted the message😮🤔😁

I've had similar.... but apparently I'm the worst message he's had as everyone else just knows he made a mistake lol. Apparently 9 others messaged him🤣

[Mtaybar]

Here's how it went lol

[Petra]

1 minute ago, Mtaybar said:

I've had similar.... but apparently I'm the worst message he's had as everyone else just knows he made a mistake lol. Apparently 9 others messaged him🤣

Give him his due, sounds like we all got different messages! Probably panicking, as selling stamps on eBay is very easy, with only the cost of a stamp to send his stuff. He wouldn’t want to risk losing that. That will teach him not to try branching out🤔😮

[Mtaybar]

You could see it as I'm being unfair on the guy but I don't personally think I am. If he's prepared to take the chance on something with your money then he should be prepared to take the backlash if it comes unstuck. 

[Solachesis]

3 minutes ago, Mtaybar said:

Here's how it went lol

 

[Solachesis]

Gold foil certificate krug strikes again. 

"Small collection found during clear out" get to **** mate.

MULTIPLE happy purchases by people. 

Reported as fraudulent but I don't have the mental energy to message him today. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385330559144?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=3tndhutyrc2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=z1wqlu01szc&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[MonkeysUncle]

Unless I'm high on something that looks distinctly not round.

Do you reckon if I wrap dog poo in kitchen foil I can get away with passing it off as silver coin on ebay?

[Leonmarsh]

Not an eBay binlord but a sovereign rarities dealer binlord any one for 600 an ounce, a) who would get it graded ? Some 🔔 end 

Edited January 6, 2023 by Leonmarsh