A Chuckle A Day

[RMN]

Can't blame them for trying.... what works on the Phileas.......

 

 

D.ick

[pajaro]

Everything vintage is rare? The Forum? Maybe I should have bought into all the lower priced models. Big rewards. Then there are a lot of sellers with an inflated and hopeful view of what they have to sell. Who knows anyway, perhaps that will become the standard price for that item if enough people buy them at that price.

[79spitfire]

Never underesimate the power of poor jugement in large numbers!

[mitto]

Never underesimate the power of poor jugement in large numbers!

"...the power of poor ju[d]gement..." Chuckles on the phrase. True otherwise though.

[Left FPN]

Yes right...

 

A well known London pen repairer is selling them for £20.

[RMN]

New idea: if you can sell a 10 GBP (originally) Phileas for 75 to 100 on ebay, hey, perhaps I can sell the section and the barrel and the cap apart for 125... wow, that's 25 gained....

 

 

D.ick

[Left FPN]

I always have a chuckle when I see a cheap pen or accessory say £5 with a delivery cost £15.

 

This listing produced the same effect.

[Left FPN]

I would have expected the seller to know the difference.

[RMN]

I would have expected the seller to know the difference.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/257139-man-100-opera-or-harlequin/

 

......

 

 

l'histoire se repète..

 

 

D.ick

[Left FPN]

We should be able to chuckle at ourselves once in a while.

 

$200 for a 513

[Left FPN]

Here we go again and not even a fountain pen set...with tatty motifs.

[RMN]

Here we go again and not even a fountain pen set...with tatty motifs.

 

Ah, but we have seen the King Hussain set before...

 

D.ick

[Left FPN]

what 20,000 big ones

 

and there's something hooky about this auction. Ahh yes, from the negative fedback he/she is selling Amazon items and marking them up. Ohh dear ebay and you let the seller run free.

Edited February 18, 2015 by Force

[Left FPN]

pen

[RMN]

pen

it's a right oblique. looking at the front part it's a fine. Very rare, a Waterman ROF.

 

 

D.ick

[Left FPN]

it's a right oblique. looking at the front part it's a fine. Very rare, a Waterman ROF.

 

 

D.ick

Yes, they come in nib sizes from 32 to 49 Europe and 1 to 15 in the USA.

[Left FPN]

Real 'Gold'

[pajaro]

Seller doesn't know what it is, but it must be worth $200 because it looks like gold.

 

The name looks like a Greek name. I have known a number of Greeks in my time, and I am unsurprised. All great people, but they have their ways. One, known to my father and friends at work came up to the office at Pensacola City Hall to shoot the breeze. I and a Greek coworker were talking to him, when he got up and said he had to go and would hit the head on the way out. We were looking out the window and out rolled B---, on the way to his car, trailing about six feet of toilet paper from the back of his pants.

 

He was a great guy, and we all liked him, but I am often reminded of this vision.

[Left FPN]

What is being auctioned here.

 

Google Translate is confusing.

 

The title appears to say a pen but the description just a cap.

[RMN]

What is being auctioned here.

 

Google Translate is confusing.

 

The title appears to say a pen but the description just a cap.

 

It says:

Waterman Edson Emerald Green (18ct)

Only the gold cap for all the Edsons from Waterman

Only the cap, with a small imperfection at the point (see pic)

 

In the main text there are a couple of words I don't know.

But the gist of it is that this is a cap that can be used on the Emerald or Blue Edson, that only the cap is sold, not the pen itself and that the cap has a small ding at the top.

 

 

I guess he got himself a new cap and is trying to get something out of the old one.

 

 

 

 

D.ick