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Post by Paul on Mar 11, 2015 7:17:10 GMT
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Post by Deepbluedave on Mar 11, 2015 12:33:01 GMT
Thanks for the heads up Paul, might have to place a bid on this one.... started bidding so if someone else is bidding, please let me know so I don't go silly and just buy it now. another edit they took out the buy it now option
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Post by tokaido on Mar 13, 2015 17:34:56 GMT
Hi,
interesting auction.
I may be totally wrong, but didn't this smell fishy??:
- a zero feedback brandnew buyer bids up the most expensive reproduction sword currently on ebay
- the zero feedbacker starts his career with very high priced items
- the zero feedbacker placed bids ONLY with ONE sellers auctions
- he bids on two VERY different objects by the SAME seller, a VIOLINE (!) and a sword, what a coincidence that both, seller and buyer share the exactly curious interests....
What is going on there ;-)
Greetings
Andreas
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Post by Deepbluedave on Mar 13, 2015 21:35:32 GMT
Andreas you make a good point, think I will watch this one more closely now, though it is getting close to leaving "it's the great buy" and heading into "still a nice sword for the price".
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Post by Paul on Mar 13, 2015 21:52:18 GMT
I'm watching this auction as a spectator as a prelude to him listing his Regent....... Though it's the Earl that I'm much more interested in.
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Post by Paul on Mar 18, 2015 7:03:11 GMT
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Post by Luka on Mar 18, 2015 11:04:46 GMT
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Post by john570 on Mar 18, 2015 16:50:43 GMT
I know a guy selling one for $1000 if anyone is interested.
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Post by Mark T on Mar 22, 2015 2:22:36 GMT
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Post by Paul on Mar 22, 2015 4:10:35 GMT
Sounds like he has a friend bidding it up. When I noticed it was withdrawn I thought that it had been sold privately. His regent is still active, but with the apparent uncertainty it might be safer to keep it local and cash on pickup.
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Post by siralan (Sir Alan Adale) on Mar 22, 2015 5:12:33 GMT
I did also notice that the seller only accepts Bank transfers. So if purchased one would not even have the benefit of PayPal's protections. That is why I am choosing not to bid on it. Being in the US the exchange rate makes the price nice but I won't risk a bank transfer purchase overseas. In this situation. Its too bad I would like to have that regent. Since I missed out on the one on my armoury.
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Post by siralan (Sir Alan Adale) on Mar 22, 2015 5:45:55 GMT
So I just checked the Regent listing again. And something very interesting occured. Not long ago it listed the opening bid at I think it was 1400AU and had no bidders. Now it has two bidds but they are only at 449 AU. That's a quite large drop in opening bid from what was listed only a couple of hours ago. Maybe its just me. But sure seems like some thing screwy is going on. But one thing that's a hell of a low price now. Can't wait to see where it goes.
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Post by Afoo on Mar 22, 2015 5:59:02 GMT
the money order alone is almost enough to make you stop watching it. Kinda sketchy....
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Post by Deepbluedave on Mar 22, 2015 7:00:00 GMT
Is weird, my ebay page says he is taking Paypal, is anyone from here bidding? I might place a few bids if it doesn't go too high, but if some one is seriously looking to buy this one I'll stay away.
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Post by Paul on Mar 22, 2015 7:32:22 GMT
I messaged him and he said cash on pickup is fine, so I guess that helps. I was thinking of bidding but only if it's a bargain and by that I'm thinking <$1,000, not a price I would expect to get it for though. I've actuall been thinking of downsizing a few as I've got a few in progress.
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Post by aussie-rabbit on Mar 22, 2015 8:24:54 GMT
Too rich for my blood, looks like the seller is taking PayPal, I would go for the cash on pickup if I were bidding, with only 16hrs to go and only as $449 I suspect it will be withdrawn.  |
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Post by Paul on Mar 22, 2015 8:31:12 GMT
All the fun bidding normally happens in the last min  |
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Post by Mark T on Mar 22, 2015 9:08:58 GMT
edit... looking in the bids listing you can see his mate is back and pushing up the bids. Yep, looks like it's the same person (who has a zero transaction history) who made the highest bid on the Munich, before all the bids were withdrawn.
I guess it *could* all be legit, but all the pieces together don't sit well ...
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Post by Mark T on Mar 22, 2015 9:13:13 GMT
I did also notice that the seller only accepts Bank transfers. I thought all listings on Ebay had to offer PayPal as a form of payment, so that everyone had protection ... or has that changed?
Either way, not encouraging that the seller has stated bank transfers only in their listing.
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Post by siralan (Sir Alan Adale) on Mar 22, 2015 18:00:07 GMT
I went back and reread the listing. In his description of the item is where it states that he only accepts bank transfers. I don't see any were the option for paypal. But it does say the listing is protected by the EBay full protection money back plan. I still find that the way that listing is going to be scetchy. And as much as I like the regent. I still think I will watch this listing but that's all for me. It does not mention a reserve any were that I saw. But if the bids don't go up. I wonder if they will pull it like they did the other sword.
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