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[tnrNHferals]

I have a bad feeling about this one.

:shock: http://cgi.ebay.com/14k-585-scrap-gold-22-4-grams-NR-/170490704789?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Coins_Bullion&hash=item27b209b395 :shock:

If you look at the other items the seller is auctioning you will see there are many other similar things. This is what scammers seem to do. Post a whole bunch of stuff to unload. They then do so as long as they can get away with it until ebay kicks them off. They then open up a new account (hence the zero feedback) and the cycle begins again.

I dont know. There's just something that makes me uneasy about buying from a 0 feedback ebayer. The fact that the ebayer claims to be in Miskolc, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary doesnt help either.

:mrgreen:


-YOU have a bad feeling?
First off, I want to thank you all for the education!
Next, I want to tell you how odd it seems to me that this wonderful group of altruistic, extremely smart, and probably good lookin' bunch of guys (I just haven't noticed any lady's here... but they could be lurking)

Okay... I think if I pile it any higher it may just fall back on me! :twisted:

Here are some observations and I hope you don't kick me out on my first post because of them. They are rather to the point, but when I read that guy had spread this forum all over the world, taking your good work and profiting from it, I got a knot in the pit of me belly for more than one reason.

Without making you feel too bad, (That’s like hearing someone start a conversation with ‘No offence but… Ya’ gotta’ know the next line gonna’ be offensive!’)
I wanted to ask you if you knew that eBay ads expire and go away? So as much as I have enjoyed this forum, I have been reading it at a bit of a disadvantage. Although I have kept reading it from the beginning, none of the pictures or text from the ads that you are referring to are here for me to look at. I would like to suggest, for the benefit of newbies like myself, that you copy and paste the actual eBay ads for posterity. If posterity is not enough of a motivator, please think of it like this: I am in the US. It seems like we have shipped so many of our good paying jobs, technology and completive advantage to every other country in the world, let’s give this to them on a gold platter, with pictures! And if THAT’S not enough motivation, think about the poor SOB who has been disseminating this forum AND getting paid to do so AND without so much as much as a credit to you, never mind the obvious monetary compensation anyone with any sense of decency would have at least offered. Don't you want him to be able to advertise: NOW with even MORE pictures!!! :?:

I know... It's a double edge sword. You are such a wealth of information, why not share it? I suppose I am just thinking about how many people could benefit from this information if it were put to use here. It is just bothersome to me somehow. It just seems like with the state of our economy, we need to be taking EVERY idea, especially one that seems like it could have a positive economic impact and use it here.

Then, I picture those poor children in 3rd world countries. Toiling next to their Mom’s, hunched over a flame on the edge of a pile of electronic scrap, and sent there by us in the US. A fog of noxious fumes hangs in the air. As if there to further punish the ones that aren’t right on top of its source, some made too sick from the melting lead and other toxic metals and solder fumes to continue to work. Can you imagine what it is doing to those kids? There has to be a way to process that stuff here. Of course that idea won’t fly until it is economically feasible to do so. So guess what? You guys are proof positive that with the right minds focused on the idea, a whole generation of children in some villages in China won’t be subjected to a problem that I am certain a very few big wigs are making money on, while once again the most vulnerable suffer.

See what can happen after a bit of surfing? I started out this morning, looking forward to getting a nice easy listing on eBay. It would have been my first as a seller. Had I not been looking at eBay, trying to figure out what these CPUs are worth, I would have never found this remarkable group. Now I have a quandary. Do I go back on to eBay and get what I can or do I hold on to them? If we are to believe a prediction of one gentleman here, I will need these in the not too distant future to buy a ‘Not-So-Happy-Meal’.

 

[Claudie]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330514414888&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


This auction ends in a little while. I know if I was dealing with a genuine gold bar, I would know it was real. :roll:

 

[joem]

I'm watching this one and so far I don't think most people think it's real. Bid amount is quite low

 

[qst42know]

The price of brass just keeps going up and up. :lol:

 

[Claudie]

I'm watching this one and so far I don't think most people think it's real. Bid amount is quite low

Quite low, or quite high for brass? If it is real gold, I don't think he will let it go for anything under $5000.

 

[Claudie]

Sold for $1025.10 Someone either made a great deal or bought some very expensive brass, either way an interesting auction. I wonder if we will ever know if it was indeed gold or not.... :roll:

 

[joem]

keep it on your watch list and wait for feedback then email the winning ebayer

 

[Harold_V]

Sold for $1025.10 Someone either made a great deal or bought some very expensive brass, either way an interesting auction. I wonder if we will ever know if it was indeed gold or not.... :roll:

To my knowledge, ingots are NEVER engraved. They can't be, for you'd alter the weight by engraving. The markings on that item were done either with a pantograph or a CNC machine. If that sucker's gold, I'll publicly kiss your butt and give you a couple hours to draw a crowd.

There's no shortage of fools in this world.

Harold

 

[Platdigger]

Given the deminsions he gave it should have weighed just over 10 oz troy.

 

[goldenchild]

keep it on your watch list and wait for feedback then email the winning ebayer

Even if its not on your watchlist you can come back to this thread and get to it from the links posted here. The seller's feedback is 542 right now and they arent selling anything. As soon as it hits 543 we might be able to start asking questions :lol:

 

[patnor1011]

Well there is con and The Con. Everyone who works with gold can easily find out with help of measurements provided by seller that item is not solid gold. So either he was cheated and don't want to believe that or else. If he is going to send it to highest bidder for that winning amount it may be indication that he knew that it is not real.

We may occasionally get cheated purchasing bars, when they are made by con masters and are gold coated with tungsten inside - that is The Con. Bars looks many times more real than this one.

Below are pictures for future reference when auction will be pulled off by ebay:
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*edited to correct spelling sorry guys...

 

[eeTHr]

Maybe this 2 x 2 x 1/4 brass "bullion" was bought by the seller under another name.

Then he would give himself good feedback on it, which gives other people watching it confidence in it, so they will bid on the next one like it; or a whole pile of them.

 

[goldsilverpro]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330514414888&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


This auction ends in a little while. I know if I was dealing with a genuine gold bar, I would know it was real. :roll:

I think somebody just paid $3736.49/pound for brass.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330514414888&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


This auction ends in a little while. I know if I was dealing with a genuine gold bar, I would know it was real. :roll:

I think somebody just paid $3736.49/pound for brass.

They will never admit it I feel.

 

[joem]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330514414888&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


This auction ends in a little while. I know if I was dealing with a genuine gold bar, I would know it was real. :roll:

I think somebody just paid $3736.49/pound for brass.

Also as we've read from another post; Testing means altering the item but when the buyer returns the item the seller cries foul the buyer has destroyed the item and ebay sides with the seller. Big loss for seller.

 

[Claudie]

The seller was careful to protect himself by stating that it could be a fake, what's in the picture is what you get, and calling ebay to protect his feedback. It's hard to feel sorry for the buyer on this auction as the warning signs were there.

 

[glondor]

I think this is crazy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gold-Scrap-Recovery-Boards-Plated-Network-Cards-91-lbs-/320638394324?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa7899fd4#ht_1857wt_932

 

[patnor1011]

Our bar is what it seems to be not gold at all - now we have proof

 

[goldenchild]

On this sellers latest negative feedback he says that the buyer is a scammer. If you look at the auction it was started on the 31st and then on Jan 2nd hours before the auction ends the seller appends "Sold as is,no returns". This seller clearly knows what they are doing. What a scumbag.

 

[patnor1011]

I agree.

But on the other side buyers are stupid too. Or perhaps greedy. If there will be the same auction stating item is brass and looks like gold and it is maybe solid gold - it will never sell for that amount of money. Yes everyone can make mistake but some people are blinded by gold fever and trying to get that once a lifetime deal. Most of the time they find out that it was a perfect deal only they were on the other side of that. Ebay is losing credibility by allowing this contradicting descriptions when they say "it is something but well it may not be what we said before" BS. It is better to stay off auctions where you see things like: maybe, not sure, not tested, sold as is, no returns, I think.... That way you may miss that once a lifetime chance but save thousands in long run.