I unfortunately have bought a total of 5 silver coins, all Morgans. I have reported this to ebay...

Question

they are saying a decision was made and they see nothing wrong with the listings. THE COINS ARE FAKE

eburtonlab · Answer

@marmak5872

If you are within thirty days of receiving those coins, you should be able to file a "not as described" return and return at the seller's expense for a full refund.

After thirty days, you may have some recourse through your payment method. Many credit cards offer up to six months of protection for items that are not as described. Contact your card issuer for details.

Reporting the listing to eBay won't allow eBay to identify counterfeit coins -- eBay would need to look at the coins themselves to make that determination, assuming eBay had experts that could do that.

Counterfeit items are not allowed to be listed on eBay at all. No one is authorized to sell counterfeit items. That fact alone does not stop some people from trying to sell them, however.

The problem is that unscrupulous or uninformed sellers can list genuine items and then deliver counterfeit items.

It is not always possible to look at a listing and know in advance exactly what, if anything, the seller intends to deliver. For one thing, a scammer can simply copy a listing from a genuine seller, using a genuine photo of a genuine item.

Except for a few specific categories of items that go through authentication, eBay never sees what the seller ships or the what the buyer receives, so there is nothing for eBay to check unless someone complains about what was received by invoking eBay's money back guarantee.

Sellers are responsible for the descriptions they provide, and buyers should not assume that eBay screens the listings in advance.

As long as counterfeits exist and there are folks trying to sell them, buyers will still have to be on the lookout for them, and avoid deals that are obviously too-good-to-be-true, whether they are being sold by accounts registered overseas or by domestic sellers wittingly or unwittingly buying counterfeits from overseas to sell here.

Buyers that doubt their ability to distinguish a genuine article from a counterfeit one should only consider purchasing from trustworthy sellers that have an established reputation for delivering exactly what was described, and should avoid deals that are too-good-to-be-true, or deals that are offered by inexperienced sellers that might disappear soon after the transaction is made, or else be prepared to get items authenticated by trusted sources within thirty days to be able to take advantage of eBay's money back guarantee.