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192 auctions for "white heart [two words] trade beads"

Top of the list:  guitarfly777, with a silver cross as genuine as his "Old period Hudson Bay "White Heart" Glass Trade Bead Necklace."


http://cgi.ebay.com/MUSEUM-ca-1800-INDIAN-LG-SILVER-FUR-TRADE-CROSS_W0QQitemZ140060407439QQihZ004QQcategoryZ715QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Note the blurry lack-of-contrast photo, typical of con artists.


ironviking67:  http://cgi.ebay.com/Fur-Trade-Era-Glass-Beads-1700-1800-s_W0QQitemZ190059084159QQihZ009QQcategoryZ715QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Note the long list of spam search words at the bottom of the description:


Ebay search words: fur trade, trade beads , Indian trade, glass trade beads , Dutch trade beads, French trade beads, HBC, Hudson Bay Company, Venetian glass beads, arrowhead, stone axe, skinning stone, stone celt:fur trade, trade beads , Indian trade, glass trade beads , Dutch trade beads, French trade beads, HBC, Hudson Bay Company, Venetian glass beads, Iroquois beads,: fur trade, trade beads , Indian trade, glass trade beads , Dutch trade beads, French trade beads, HBC, Hudson Bay Company, Venetian glass beads, Iroquois beads , fur trade, trade beads , Indian trade, glass trade beads , Dutch trade beads, French trade beads, HBC, Hudson Bay Company, Venetian glass beads 4 layer Chevron , Nueva Cadiz Beads .African trade beads


This is an eBay violation, but who's enforcing any of the rules.  "We'd rather take his listing fees that knock him out for violations."


bugzart:  http://cgi.ebay.com/TRADE-BEADS-ANTIQUE-UNUSUAL-ORANGE-WHITE-HEARTS_W0QQitemZ...


We doubt it, africadirect, these are recent!  http://cgi.ebay.com/Fulani-Necklace-102-Strands-Old-Trade-Beads_W0QQitemZ3200...


terrisbooks (more than one), of course:  http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-TRADE-BEADS-WHITEHEARTS-Red-Strand-INDIAN-Necklace_W0...


A lot of these auctions have nothing to do with "whiteheart" beads.  We think there's spamming going on.


Our old friend cherokee-scumerlin:  http://cgi.ebay.com/CORNALINE-d-ALEPPO-trade-beads_W0QQitemZ110061600557QQihZ...


Another scumerlin:  You'd think a string with a couple older beads would fetch more; not so far:  http://cgi.ebay.com/HUDSON-BAY-WHITE-HEART-trade-beads_W0QQitemZ110061604500Q...


ms.azurite-eye; why are we wasting our time?  http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-Trade-Beads-NATIVE-AMERICAN-INDIAN-Blue-Padre-CHIEF_W...


africadirect again -- can you say BADD?  http://cgi.ebay.com/White-Heart-Trade-Beads-COBALT-BLUE-Small_W0QQitemZ320058...


Now you get the idea.  We haven't yet found a genuine "old" ones.  Maybe you can.


Thanks eBay for allowing ignoramuses and scammers to ruin this category!


 


 


2006-12-11 04:00:22 GMT
Comments (1 total)
Author:Anonymous
Terriscrooks/books The biggest lie on ebay.......
Lewis & Clark beads 5 pounds of yellow or orange beads "these are the padre style in the photo sold here"

Called Red Padres... First made abroad around the 1700s. The red ones are the mostest expensive of all the padre beads becaused sometimes real gold had to be mixed in with the glass to get this bright red color! These are not easy to find in this shade of red"
2006-12-12 01:06:27 GMT
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