Fake silver onnces being sold on eBay

Question

Any help in stopping scammers on eBay Platorm?

gosimus · Answer

@rolyat11 < Fake silver . . . Any help in stopping scammers on eBay Platorm? > No way to stop scammers, but you can help yourself. Check the seller's feedback carefully, if it's bad don't buy. If the seller is in China don't buy. If the price is below spot don't buy. You have 8,000 feedback received as a buyer . . . with that much experience, you should be giving advice, not asking for it. ðŸ˜ƒ

eburtonlab · Answer

Scammers seem to be able to put up new listings faster than eBay can take them down.

Do you have any suggestions how to prevent sellers from listing one thing and then delivering something else (or delivering nothing) that you think eBay has not already considered?

It does appear that eBay has recently added some collectible coins to the list of items requiring sellers to meet eligibility criteria in order to list, though it is not clear exactly which coins are covered:

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/products-eligibility-requirements-policy?id=5271

Instead of many easy-to-spot zero feedback accounts selling obviously counterfeit coins, over time the net result is likely to be a slightly smaller number of slightly more experienced seller accounts... selling the exact same counterfeit coins. Plus many more zero feedback accounts selling some other counterfeit items that have not yet been added to the eligibility-requirement list.

No matter what steps eBay takes to limit scammers, there is still no substitute for buyers using their common sense to know what they buy and to buy what they know from experienced sellers they trust.