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I am not saying this guy is a scam artist, but there is something about this auction that does not ring true...

First look at the 5th picture down... anyone ever heard of a Parker 51 with a barrell marking that said Parker Victory and ever more interesting lengthwise on the barrell...

Then check out the guys feedback... and click on some of the auctions.. all a series of ??????????? for title and description

 

NOW I am not someone to call another person a crook without more proof than what I see there, but I find this one strange...

It seems that there are a lot of auctions lately at better than sumgai prices coming out of the orient.... and usually from sellers with feedbacks like this one...

 

 

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Interesting. I also notice that almost every purchase only has "1" on the hit counter. A few have 4 or 5 hits.

 

Looks to me like this person may have set up some dummy transactions to get a 100% rating.

 

Wonder if this should be reported to ebay security?

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I just happened to see another auction from this person for a Sheaffer Triumph pen/pencil set, supposedly in working order, for a mere $30 buy-it-now. Very suspicious.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.--Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis", 1776

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Yes, the sellers on the other transactions all have 0 feedback ratings, and the descriptions are all blank.

Ron

 

Favorite Pens: Parker "51"Lamy 2000; Bexley America the Beautiful; Pilot Custom 823, 912 and 74; Sheaffer Early Touchdown; Parker Vacumatic; Sheaffer Legacy

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Feed back all left within a couple of minutes today and Seller has left no feed back for others.

 

Does not pass the sniff test.

One ink to find them,

One ink to bring them all

One ink to rule them all,

and in the darkness bind them..

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Interesting.  I also notice that almost every purchase only has "1" on the hit counter.  A few have 4 or 5 hits.

 

Looks to me like this person may have set up some dummy transactions to get a 100% rating.

 

Wonder if this should be reported to ebay security?

Feedback from sellers with no feedback themselves. Plus all the feedback left within the space of 10 minutes. Definitely dodgy. I looked at the other items for sale and recognised a couple of the Conway Stewart auctions.

Conway Stewart 540

auction link for a CS from the seller Old Griz has highlighted.

 

Snap, here's the genuine auction.

 

Conway Stewart 550

Again, auction from our Chinese Seller.

 

Then the genuine auction.

 

Pilot Murex

Our Chinese Seller

 

Snap with an auction from Taiwan. Wonder if this is the same person if you look at the feedback. I guess the genuine auction in this case is the Italian one below.

 

Or you could try the same pen from Italy.

 

Parker Victory

Here's the auction from the Chinese Seller.

 

Snap with another auction from Taiwan.

 

Here's the genuine auction.

 

Edit - I was correcting my links, but looks like the Chinese auctions have been pulled. At the moment the Taiwanese ones are still live.

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