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The sellers who list a pen without finding out the nib size are bad enough. But there are some who write back in outrage when you ask them what the nib size is!

 

Then there's the guy in South America who, although he's selling half a dozen pens at a time, some of them for hundreds of dollars, thinks that a Sheaffer Thin Model Touchdown is a rare and valuable 1930s pen, and can't see why anyone would need to see a picture of the nib or know what size or line width it is... The important thing is that he, as an expert, says it has never been inked - what more does anyone need to know?

 

And the guy in Germany - again a regular pen seller - who found a "unique" 30s Balance - because it wasn't a lever fill.

 

But it's the people who don't get the nib size thing - some of them regular sellers - who annoy me most. It's like selling clothes without saying what size!

- Jonathan

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I especially love the ones that sell hundreds of pens, yet in each auction say they're not pen experts, can't guarantee anything, please ask questions. And the picture is always small or fuzzy. You'd think that if they're going to sell so many pens, they'd at least try to learn something about them. Or do some of these sellers really know what they're doing, but are intentionally deceptive?

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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This is just the flip side of what most of us love about eBay: the bargains that result from the seller not knowing and not being able to describe what they have. If the ones you complain about didn't exist, most likely neither would the sellers with the bargains! eBay: a blade with two edges!

 

best, Dan

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I agree with Dan.

 

Do you notice how the experienced and knowledgeable pen sellers' pens often sell for 2 to 4 times what one with bad information, bad pictures, etc. sell for? Of course, it's more risky, but on average, you come out way ahead in buying from the ignorant, inexperienced and lazy. You just have to expect to "lose" sometimes.

 

Ron

 

PS I just bought what appears to be a beautiful Sentinel snorkel set with box and papers for $10.50 including shipping. It was mis-identified as a Tip-Dip set. It's a good thing OldGriz was away this weekend!

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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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This is just the flip side of what most of us love about eBay: the bargains that result from the seller not knowing and not being able to describe what they have. If the ones you complain about didn't exist, most likely neither would the sellers with the bargains! eBay: a blade with two edges!

 

best, Dan

Good point!

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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Yeah, I saw one for a "mint" Sonnet that had a bent nib abd ink stains around the base of the nib.....

 

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