Fakes, reproductions, replicas, an investigative report, by Harry Ridgeway

Fakes, reproductions, replicas,

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FB2123     South Carolina Palmetto Guard button
 
I have had several Palmetto Guard buttons.  This was an eBay offering with less than great pictures.  The seller claimed this came from a sale 15 years ago.  It had in fact been manufactured in the last couple of years by a manufacturer of reenactment supplies.  This button is cast, the original is of course stamped.  Button should not fool anybody, once in your hand it is heavy and obviously cast and the manufacturer intentionally took out some of the details so the button would not be confused with the real thing.  Here the fraud was perpetuated by offering it on eFake, using crummy pictures where you could not see the details along with a good story.  Again it was not the manufacturer who committed the fraud, it was the ebay seller who did this and his name is:
J Taylor  
eFake handle "rwt007"
806 Engineer Street
Corbin KY 40701

Eventually a fraud claim was filed and collected from eBay.  But I must tell you that if you have reason to distrust eBay, ala eFake, I can give you an earful.  I used this case to test the system, they did eventually pay, but they tried every trick in the book to trip up my claim, protect this seller who along the way admitted to the fraud, and disallow the claim.  eBay is every bit as sleezy as advertised.  It is probably not worth trying to collect from them and that is the way they want it to be.  The lesson of course is just don't buy from people like this no matter how good the deal seems.