CoinTalk Members Say a Low-Priced Silver Coin Listing on eBay Looks Like a Scam
A thread on the forum CoinTalk asked whether a silver coin listing on eBay was a scam. Posters pointed to low sales volume and a seller account opened that month, as well as the low price. These are the posters' opinions; the item has not been confirmed as fake.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We corrected the headline, summary and body to match the source. We rewrote passages that presented forum posters' opinions as confirmed facts (a headline calling the coins counterfeit, multiple listings described as "confirmed," and posters said to have "agreed") as the posters' own statements, and removed an unsupported statement that the listing was priced "significantly below its market value." The previous headline was "Warning: Counterfeit Silver Eagles from Multiple Accounts Offered at Low Prices."
This article summarizes a thread on the forum CoinTalk titled "Pretty certain this is a scam. Anyone want to chime in?" The source does not show the posting date. What follows are the posters' own statements and opinions; the listed item has not been confirmed as fake.
Doubts About the Seller
The user 71Avalon posted a link to an eBay listing and asked for opinions.
Joshua Lemons replied, "Definitely," and cited low sales volume, a location in Australia, and the fact that the seller had joined only that month. Another poster, daveydempsey, wrote that the listing showed the location as Schenectady, New York, United States, on daveydempsey's screen.
longnine009 asked how a seller could show 66 sold with 0 sales.
71Avalon later wrote that there were two or three more listings for the same item under different usernames. 71Avalon said they could not believe how many buyers there were, and that the price alone screamed "Chinese fake."
A Past Buyer's Account
Randy Abercrombie wrote about intentionally buying, in the year before the post, from a seller offering ASEs (American Silver Eagles) at half the spot value. According to Randy Abercrombie, the advertisement was as flashy as this one and the photographs showed genuine coins, but the coin received was fake.
Advice to Buyers
buddy16cat noted that eBay has a Money Back Guarantee if an item does not arrive or is not as listed. buddy16cat added that they would not buy from a seller with no feedback or a price that is too low.
green18 wrote that, with silver hovering at $108 an ounce, something about the listing seemed wrong.
Near the end of the thread, KBBPLL reported that the listing was gone. -jeffB added that this appeared to happen only after all the items had sold.
Source: CoinTalk, "Pretty certain this is a scam. Anyone want to chime in?"
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