This Was Actually Listed On Ebay: Show Finds That Left You Speechless Not In A Good Way

Sad, I threw hundreds away just like that. Just think of the money I could have made.

Yep, should have been listed on April 1!

Did the seller use AI to write the description?

Artificial Idiocy?

I was going to say augmented, but artificial still works

Well, now that that dead horse was beaten into submission, time to move on to my next find:

This listing start well--

Foreign too--

But then the quality began to drop a bit--


Of course as we move through these last five cards, not have an auxiliary marking about covered stamps being invalid for postage.Such markings would have helped justify to value, right?




Here is the rub, I do not know if I am shocked by the listing price or that I was offered a small discount of only $29,820.00. I was insulted as he could have rounded it to an even $30K.


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Waste, fraud and abuse.

It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous.

You only need to find a few gullible enough to buy it. I do not think anyone will bite at that price but if they listed for under $20 they may get buyers since it is in discretionary spending range.

The sad part is there is more than a zero chance that someone taps the "Buy" button. I say this based upon real experience. At one time I listed a number of the $1 Cattle in the Storm's on ebay with four figure pricing for the mint examples with certificates. It only took a day or so and they sold to a buyer. Many days went buy with no payment and I went through the steps to get that payment. Finally, the son of the elderly man who "purchased" the stamps contacted me and explained that Dad had dementia and had a habit of "buying" high ticket items on ebay. Using the home address and Google my gumshoe work confirmed to my satisfaction that the story was likely true and that the 93 year old widower needed the keys taken away.

So yes, I do believe that some of these ridiculous listings at least go to the point of the buy button being pushed.

Could be part of a money laundering scheme.

How does that work, exactly, in an online marketplace when no cash changes hands and every money movement has an electronic signature?

The seller has sold one item at $400, a movie prop, as a buy it now. Of course feedback was perfect on the transaction. 4th feedback since joining in 2019.

Yes money laundering is possible, but I will not explain how one does that. But once the transaction is completed, the money is clean but with the need to declare any profit as taxable income with the tax being part of the cleaning overhead. Similar to the small scale of scooping up thousands of dollars in rolled coins from an over turned armored truck. The roll we sold door to door in surrounding "no tell" neighborhoods at 40% of face, e.g., a $5.00 roll of dimes for $2.00 paper. No arrests, no recovery. Paper money was clean. Coins used were untraceable. A win for the opportunists and the community.

Visit ebay.co.uk and you'll have an opportunity to buy "GB 1959 QE2 2d stamp - with dated post mark rare vintage"!

It can be yours for only £78.72 or best offer (plus £2.70 for tracked postage)!

My best offer would be £0.01 if the postage were free. I see rubbish like this every time I visit ebay, but the asking prices, though ridiculously high, aren't high enough to make me suspect money laundering. In this case, is it possible that the seller genuinely believes that 1959 is a time of remote antiquity, and that anything surviving from so long ago must be of great scarcity?

If you were laundering money, you wouldn't do it with ridiculous listings that could draw attention. These are just your run-of-the-mill mentally ill sellers.