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The ups and downs of ebay auctions :)


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Many of us that are "swimming in the bay" are always tempted to bid on auctions with fuzzy pictures hoping for the big sumgai purchase :)

Few weeks ago such an auction attracted my interest. The picture was this one.

http://www.streamload.com/azavalia/auct2.jpg

I thought that the "gold" overlay appeared to be a Waterman Night and Day (in addition to a small overlay and a 5th Avenue Eversharp).

The description said that both overlays had Waterman's nibs but nothing more. I placed my bid and won. The closing price was around $90 (about 6 dollars less than my max bid). When I looked at the names of other bidders (16 bids total including ngarnold, ksmooselips, issacson, jcym, miker2001!, pencilmech) may recognize some well known names in the community :) I was thrilled because some people more knowledgeable that me were similarly tempted.

 

When the pens arrived in a vacuum sealed bag :o I quickly realized that the main attraction was not a Waterman pen, and as I went back to the auction I read the following Q& A (which I had missed in my excitement <_< )

 

Q: could you possibly send me a jpg picture of just the larger gold waterman pen and tell me any information you can find on it. what is says on the nib? clip?

A: Hope the picture came through. The big one says AVON on clip. on the big gold caped one it says rolpoint on clip, on the little one it says Ideal on the lever. Bill

 

Double oops :doh:

 

In any event the lot contained some very interesting pens. An AVON pen fitted with one of the wettest noodles Waterman nibs that I have seen, a Eversharp 5th Avenue set which looked nice after cleaning, and a tiny ultra cute 0512 1/2 Waterman overlay with a sweet semiflex nib. Not bad at all :)

 

http://www.streamload.com/azavalia/auct.jpg

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Oh man!! Good that you are able to see the positive side of things though, Prof! :D

 

This just reinforces my preferences to ask lots of questions to those sellers with questionable photos and/or inadequate info on the pens.

 

(Mind you, I would have probably bid as well, assuming I was interested after seeing Isaacson in the list of bidders - he's the only one I recognise)

 

But what has captured my fascination in the pics more than the pens, as always, is your penmanship, Antonios. Is it just me or has it become more and more consistantly beautiful? Or in fact, it's probably been this good since I first saw it - it's just a bigger picture in this thread, that's all. B)

You can't always get what you want... but if you try sometimes... you just might find... you'll get what you need...

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