fake sovereigns on ebay

[bazbigfoot]

today there is a 1892 GEORGE sovereign   on ebay excellent condition looks brand new £1050 or best offer , i just wish i had took more interest in history when i was at school 😉

[James32]

Have you a link?

[bazbigfoot]

no just looking on ebay top of first page . not to computer literate ( old age ) 

[James32]

Dispatched with evri 😆 🤣 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335208585927

[bazbigfoot]

lots on ebay they are like sheep tell each other then ebay will be full of fakes and not as blatant as 1892 george spoil it for everyone ie sending coins other than listed sending parcel with nothing in it then saying oh i put coin in its becoming  you cant trust anyone not even the post office 😇

[ZRPMs]

45 minutes ago, bazbigfoot said:

1892 GEORGE sovereign 

That makes it rare then. It's the only one I've seen. At 19 years before the first official one for circulation. This must be a pattern from the mint by an employee that had thought Victoria had been there too long and was planning on a royal love scandal knocking Edward VII out of the running. leaf frogging George V to the throne. Unfortunately, their crystal ball had an inclusion in it and they hadn't realised that it was Edward VIII that would run off with a bit of American Totty, leap frogging George VI to the throne. One for the collection.

Or are you suggesting it may be a little bit fake. 

[bazbigfoot]

i thought it was over priced but to be fair its unique a true collectors piece i'm thinking of making him an offer 😉

[SidS]

Looking at the extra marking under George's beard, is that one of those Indian/Middle Eastern jewellery sovereigns?

See:

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=337859

Edited January 14 by SidS

[MrStacker]

2 hours ago, bazbigfoot said:

i thought it was over priced but to be fair its unique a true collectors piece i'm thinking of making him an offer 😉

@bobskito the rescue! He has a talent with eBay lingo via messaging. The sellers become his best friend! 

[LemmyMcGregor]

22 hours ago, James32 said:

Dispatched with evri 😆 🤣 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335208585927

This explains, is the Australian George, you know, George from Wollongong, cool local dude, you would have loved him.

[ZRPMs]

I reported it Sunday. Wasn't expecting anything and had no reply from seller. However, I received an email from ebay that reads

The content you reported was removed

 

Hello ############,

Thanks again for reporting the problematic content you found. 

What happened:
We looked into your report and removed the content. It may take up to 24 hours for it to reflect on the site. This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence.

We let the content uploader know about this decision and the action taken. They may have the option to fix the content to make it visible again on site. They can also appeal our decision, and we'll review the case again and may reverse the original decision and action taken.

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Your reference ID: 2-1-------4878 
Here are the listings you reported that have been removed: Item: 335208585927 sovereign coins/ gold coins 1892 King George V Australia


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[Rat]

5 hours ago, ZRPMs said:

I reported it Sunday. Wasn't expecting anything and had no reply from seller. However, I received an email from ebay that reads

The content you reported was removed

 

Hello ############,

Thanks again for reporting the problematic content you found. 

What happened:
We looked into your report and removed the content. It may take up to 24 hours for it to reflect on the site. This determination was made using automation or artificial intelligence.

We let the content uploader know about this decision and the action taken. They may have the option to fix the content to make it visible again on site. They can also appeal our decision, and we'll review the case again and may reverse the original decision and action taken.

If you reported content that isn’t included in the below reference ID, we’ll send a separate email once we’ve made a decision. 

Your reference ID: 2-1-------4878 
Here are the listings you reported that have been removed: Item: 335208585927 sovereign coins/ gold coins 1892 King George V Australia


Thank you for being part of the eBay community.

Thanks,

eBay

Please don't reply to this message. It was sent from an address that doesn't accept incoming email.

 

I reported as well and got the same email back from eBay. I wonder if they are starting to take more action when they receive multiple reports of fake goods 🤔

[ZRPMs]

2 hours ago, Rat said:

I reported as well and got the same email back from eBay. I wonder if they are starting to take more action when they receive multiple reports of fake goods 🤔

It can't harm the efforts to report multiple times but from experience I'm not sure it makes all that much difference. We have the ebay binlord thread here and I know many of us have reported items before with no response from ebay. I think the biggest factor in this case was that he had no feedback. Once a seller has a number of positive feedback ebay take less notice. The higher this is, it would seem, the less likely it is that ebay will do anything. Regardless of if the feedback is for purchases or sales. One really bad case that was high lighted here not so long back turned out to be at it for years and was a local councillor. Loads of us reported him but nothing was done. Certainly for the items I reported but there were multiple lots that were fake, grossly over priced or just suspect. All we can do is keep trying. 

[JamesH]

Interesting as I reported the item on Monday and got a pretty quick response from eBay to say no action being taken! Now appears the user account doesn’t exist