Ebay Scammer Update

[CWLeadManiac]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous!! This scammer has a fake CSA sword listed and it's OVER $1500 right now, with 3 days left in the auction! If you take a look at the bidding history, it's pretty obvious that his shill accounts are bumping up the bids...

1863 Civil War Confederate CSA Calvary Saber Sword & Scabbard Gettysburg Pickup! | eBay

This saber and scabbard was recovered after the battle of Gettysburg ended, it was recovered as a battlefield pickup by a Union soldier after the confederate retreat who then took it back to Massachusetts.

www.ebay.com

 

[bayonet]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous!! This scammer has a fake CSA sword listed and it's OVER $1500 right now, with 3 days left in the auction! If you take a look at the bidding history, it's pretty obvious that his shill accounts are bumping up the bids...

1863 Civil War Confederate CSA Calvary Saber Sword & Scabbard Gettysburg Pickup! | eBay

This saber and scabbard was recovered after the battle of Gettysburg ended, it was recovered as a battlefield pickup by a Union soldier after the confederate retreat who then took it back to Massachusetts.

www.ebay.com

But his Father paid over $5000 for it over 20+ years ago so it must be legit. Don't ya trust dear old Dad rest in peace his dear blessed soul. Yeah good job Dad you raise an upstanding respectable honest Boy!

 

[Jack7171]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous!! This scammer has a fake CSA sword listed and it's OVER $1500 right now, with 3 days left in the auction! If you take a look at the bidding history, it's pretty obvious that his shill accounts are bumping up the bids...

1863 Civil War Confederate CSA Calvary Saber Sword & Scabbard Gettysburg Pickup! | eBay

This saber and scabbard was recovered after the battle of Gettysburg ended, it was recovered as a battlefield pickup by a Union soldier after the confederate retreat who then took it back to Massachusetts.

www.ebay.com

I wonder what happens when his shill bid wins? Ebay takes a disgusting cut of the money,,,so if he bids on his own item, and wins it, he still hasta pay ebay lol,,,nice pickup on the bidders lol!

 

[Cato3rd]

I wonder what happens when his shill bid wins? Ebay takes a disgusting cut of the money,,,so if he bids on his own item, and wins it, he still hasta pay ebay lol,,,nice pickup on the bidders lol!

He probably wouldn't pay it which only hurts the sock puppet account. I know it's not ethical but I guess one way to fight against a scammer would be to create fake accounts, bid crazy high on his items, and just not pay. That way it could hypothetically deter innocent people from bidding and ruin the auction for the scammer. Basically scamming the scammer

 

[A. Roy]

I wonder what happens when his shill bid wins? Ebay takes a disgusting cut of the money,,,so if he bids on his own item, and wins it, he still hasta pay ebay lol,,,nice pickup on the bidders lol!

If this guy runs a lot of online auctions, he has probably developed skills in running up the hammer price, sensing when the real bidders are close to their limit, and then stopping the shill bids, leaving some poor sad sack with a fake item.
AR

 

[Jack7171]

He probably wouldn't pay it which only hurts the sock puppet account. I know it's not ethical but I guess one way to fight against a scammer would be to create fake accounts, bid crazy high on his items, and just not pay. That way it could hypothetically deter innocent people from bidding and ruin the auction for the scammer. Basically scamming the scammer

I've actually spoken live with an ebay representative about this account,, but being from Bangladesh, Mumbai, or wherever they were, they had zero empathy with regards to submitting any type of investigation into the seller unless I had been scammed myself

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

I wonder what happens when his shill bid wins? Ebay takes a disgusting cut of the money,,,so if he bids on his own item, and wins it, he still hasta pay ebay lol,,,nice pickup on the bidders lol!

EBay actually permits a winner to ask for a sale to be cancelled; however, eBay doesn't cancel it unilaterally. The seller must agree to the cancellation. Conceivably, if someone was dishonestly running up the bids for his own item, it would then be an easy process to cancel the sale at no cost to either party. (I became aware of this cancellation process only because the successful bidder on an item I was selling for a charity asked afterward to cancel the purchase. I saw no reason to refuse, since the item was desirable, and I quickly sold it for only 50 cents less than the original high bid.)

 

[Jack7171]

EBay actually permits a winner to ask for a sale to be cancelled; however, eBay doesn't cancel it unilaterally. The seller must agree to the cancellation. Conceivably, if someone was dishonestly running up the bids for his own item, it would then be an easy process to cancel the sale at no cost to either party. (I became aware of this cancellation process only because the successful bidder on an item I was selling for a charity asked afterward to cancel the purchase. I saw no reason to refuse, since the item was desirable, and I quickly sold it for only 50 cents less than the original high bid.

Ahh, then that's how he's doing it. I never knew that and I trust nothing on Ebay anymore, but as a collector I have a serious issue with scam sellers,, and wanna burn this clown to the ground. Thx for that info,,,,

 

[gjpratt]

You are missing the next step. After the shill sale is cancelled, he will go back to highest legit bidder, inform him/her that regrettably the sale fell through and then graciously offer to sell the item at the price bid by the legit bidder. This happened to me once, many years ago, which made me take a hard look at the bidders which did not take long to expose as shills, which resulted in this being the last time I ever participated in ebay bidding.

That may not be 100% true. I may or may not have bid on some scam ebay sellers' offerings in a manner designed to alert others to the scamming. If so, that would not be genuine participation.

 

[CWLeadManiac]

But his Father paid over $5000 for it over 20+ years ago so it must be legit. Don't ya trust dear old Dad rest in peace his dear blessed soul. Yeah good job Dad you raise an upstanding respectable honest Boy!

The REALLY funny part about that is he has an engine computer code reader that dear old dad bought 2 WEEKS AGO!!! Somebody really needs to buy something cheap from this guy so they can point out all of this stuff in the feedback.

 

[CWLeadManiac]

I wonder what happens when his shill bid wins? Ebay takes a disgusting cut of the money,,,so if he bids on his own item, and wins it, he still hasta pay ebay lol,,,nice pickup on the bidders lol!

I think he let's some of his shill accounts win because then he jacks up their feedback score. If you take a look at some of his positive feedback, some of the "winners" leave absolutely gushing feedback, coincidentally in the same style as his listing descriptions.

 

[BCS1973]

This is at least the second time he has listed this sword. Unless he has a pile of these laying around, last time it "sold" for $670. He has received some negative feedbacks on his other CW auctions where the called out his baloney, but he just writes a response saying that it is fake feedback and that they are jealous dealers.

 

[JackADriscoll]

He probably just pays himself

 

[Jack7171]

He probably just pays himself

He might, but then he owes ebay a % of the total sale including shipping

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

Here's the mantle thing again "This was one of his absolute most prized possessions. He had it on the mantle in his living room with a light on it. NOTE the display stands are not included."

How anyone can not see this is cheap die cut metal from overseas beats me.

He's fooling himself at this point.

Do you think anyone is really buying this ****? Especially his "Fort Sumter pottery?"

These repros aren't even close to good.

 

[CWLeadManiac]

He might, but then he owes ebay a % of the total sale including shipping

I'm thinking for a fraudulent CSA sword selling for over $1500 , he makes his money back. And, as previously stated, if his shill accounts "win" the auction, he just negates the bid and takes the next authentic one down

 

[CWLeadManiac]

Here's the mantle thing again "This was one of his absolute most prized possessions. He had it on the mantle in his living room with a light on it. NOTE the display stands are not included."

How anyone can not see this is cheap die cut metal from overseas beats me.

He's fooling himself at this point.

Do you think anyone is really buying this ****? Especially his "Fort Sumter pottery?"

These repros aren't even close to good.

His ACW pottery was most likely bought at Hobby Lobby and sold as "authentic". It's all so infuriating.

 

[Jack7171]

His ACW pottery was most likely bought at Hobby Lobby and sold as "authentic". It's all so infuriating.

I've posted b4 my clay jug story from General lee on ebay. He sold me an absolutely authentic cw period brown clay jug,, when received it,,it was about 4" tall, brand new, and I heard something inside it, so I flipped it upside-down and fished out the little paper tag from hobby lobby china

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

Did you post that in a review? How much did you chance on that purchase?

 

[Jack7171]

Did you post that in a review? How much did you chance on that purchase?

It was like 19.00 bid for a .99 cent jug. Yep I got my $$ back minus shipping