I'll add another fake/fraudulent seller to this list:
mrcoo_43 (now goes by
ballparkroaddawg87). Everything he lists was "collected by my father who ran a museum and was a professor/taught at several universities." And says "local museums want this piece but we're trying to get kids to college/need money for estate expenses blah blah blah. Claims to have taken everything to the Confederate museum in Columbia, SC to be checked out. Unfortunately for him, I know the curator and all of that is BS. He says each piece "was one of my father's most prized possessions."
He also says with each item his father "bought it at the world renowned Civil War Relic store in Getttsburg 30/40 years ago." Then he lists some huge price, like $3000 is what his father paid for it. He used to say "The Horse Soldier" but I reported him and contacted that store and he got caught so now he says "world renowned Civil War Relic store." He then says he "has never seen the item come up for sale", then in the same sentence says "similar item has sold on Heritage Auction for $_____ recently!" Dude is full of it. Even says he'll include "the original receipt from decades ago." Clearly he's forging those too.
But my favorite part is at the bottom where EVERY TIME he lists a fake "question" he's received in an effort to boost the item's authenticity. They all use the same phrases like "I run a museum and this item is 100% authentic, will you take a Buy Now? I'll offer $1500." Then he "responds" and always says "he cannot because bids have already been received." Couple times I caught him listing the name of the fake person asking a question as the "owner of Old South Antiques". So, I contacted Shannon Pritchard and he was furious and went to eBay directly, and now the seller went back to generic names for his fake questions. Only now he occasionally uses the "Confederate Museum in downtown Charleston." Which I've also been to and spoken with the owners about.
This guy also re-lists everything with the same photos as well, and people keep gobbling it up. "This sword was dug from the ground at Gettysburg." Or "this Confederate lock plate was left behind at the Confederate camp at Gettysburg and picked up by a Union soldier", blah blah blah.
Guy is ruining this for a lot of people and getting rich off of it. Makes me super angry and he needs to be reported and held accountable. Frankly needs to be in jail. And as I put at the top of my comment, he's now changed his name to
ballparkroaddawk87 from
mrcoo_43. But luckily he's an idiot and still uses mrcoo_43 as the responding name to his fake questions at the bottom of his listings sometimes.
Please help me report him and get him off of eBay.
Here's an example that's currently listed, and has all the details I've mentioned above. He even copy/pasted the Heritage Auctions bit because it says "dice" not the grape shot he's listing
. Link:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/404814854507
Same item sold 3 weeks ago (same photos and everything aside from a few small details is exactly the same):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/404770919140
EDIT: Also noticed he's now including photos of the "receipt", which is just a generic yellowed receipt paper where he's scribbled arbitrary numbers and you can't read much of anything. His two current CW listings both use the same "receipt" and writing, despite the dates being 20 years apart…Oh, and the name on his recent "receipts"? It's showing as "Equine Soldier Military Antiques, LLC." You can't make this idiocy up. He got caught using The Horse Soldier, so now he uses "The Equine Soldier.
Also, I looked at the "receipts" from his SOLD listings and they are only a few numbers before his current ones (receipt number in the upper right). He's pulling from the same stack of generic receipt paper… it's in order… how anyone could fall for this is astounding.
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