"Questionable" dealers on okay are advising you to bid ONLY on their "Private Bidder" listings - claiming that the only people who would write to you to question an "artifact" or tell you are being defrauded with fake "relics" are other okay dealers trying to spoil the sale so you will buy from them.
They try to make this sound like a sincere effort to protect you.
They further claim that their use of "Private Feedback" is not a scam to prevent Bidders from finding out the Sellers have a history of Buyers recording their frauds, but somehow an indication of their upright ethics.
Bull!
Truly malicious, unwarranted negative Feedback can be removed. I have had several removed from my account so that argument is a fairytale.
Both are simply self-serving lies to protect "dealers" who are knowingly, willingly and consistently selling fake "relics." They want you to believe that they are "protecting" you from unscrupulous people when, in fact, they are the unscrupulous ones.
DO NOT DEPEND ON okay TO PROTECT YOU! okay makes its fees on these frauds as easily as they do on genuine sales. The crooks have been reported to okay multiple times and okay has done nothing. A new effort is underway to involve the FBI and FCC in documenting and prosecuting wire fraud.
Ever notice that most of these "Privacy-loving" crooks offer no guarantee of authenticity...or if they do there is no written guarantee of a refund on return? Something is "Right as rain" - but what does that men other than NOTHING?
Some who offer you a return period make it something like 3 days or at most 7 days. Notice that they do not tell you in their listing if that means the return period starts counting down from the date they ship it or from the date you receive it or allows you that time PLUS return shipping time.
Even if you are given 7 days from the date of receipt you have to track down a qualifed appraiser, get it appraised, then notify the Seller (who can claim they did not get your notification or that they do not accept the qualifications of the appraiser), then ship it back. If it takes three days to ship the item back and you are not wise enough to send it with some form of delivery confirmation it will likely arrive just after that guarantee period expires - at least according to the Seller.
I am not a dealer. I am Civil War reenactor who collects only documentation and images related to minority Confederates and have my own sources for my equipment. I have nothing to gain from notifying unsuspecting Bidders to research and question items that look "wrong" or are outright fakes (D-Guards and Boyle
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