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Watchdog
Thanks for the pics and the heads up. The first user name does it for me really as a UK English speaker it says it all and puts me off immediately.
Mind you, I did once buy a spare alloy wheel for my car from someone calling himself "Bobbybumlove" (another name with connotations perhaps only noticed by UK English speakers)
Regards
Mark
I caught the connotations. For a Yank, I'm pretty fluent in British slang having hung out most weekends with a group of Brits during one 13-month overseas assignment. You guys can really throw the "C-word" around in a way that would generate big trouble here. And I never got over how they would call a cookie a "biscuit". We used to say "Ah yes, the Americans and the Brits: two peoples divided by a common language".
Todd
Former U.S. Army Tanker.
"Best job I ever had."
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11-02-2020 03:13 PM
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Circuit advertisement
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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It always seems on Ebay, if a seller says something is a likely fake, there are people out there thinking it may be real, and they are getting one over on the seller. Try selling some authentic items on Ebay with a clear statement that they are authentic, crickets.
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Chrish124
It always seems on Ebay, if a seller says something is a likely fake, there are people out there thinking it may be real, and they are getting one over on the seller. Try selling some authentic items on Ebay with a clear statement that they are authentic, crickets.
This is another scam perpetrated by dealers on ebay... 'I'm advertising this as a repro because I don't know much about this kind of thing'. There are obviously variations on this, and another popular one used is... 'I found these old helmets when clearing out my great grandfather's shed, but don't know what they are'. Using 'great grandfather' leads the gullible to think that the helmets are of considerable age, and possibly veteran bring-backs. There are all kinds of scams designed to make potential purchasers believe that the seller doesn't know what he's selling, but more often than not he does!
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What I find interesting is that he only has one negative feedback were someone figured out the item they purchased from him is a fake. Seems like the buyers who fall for this stuff do not even bother to check for the authenticity once the item is in hand. SMH.
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Chrish124
What I find interesting is that he only has one negative feedback were someone figured out the item they purchased from him is a fake. Seems like the buyers who fall for this stuff do not even bother to check for the authenticity once the item is in hand. SMH.
True!! I think it's just a lot of novice buyers in the WW2 memorabilia space who don't know any better and trust in people too much, or perhaps they underestimate the fakery this market has. I've seen so many eBay sellers consistently sell fake stuff at 100% positive feedback and have always scratched by head.
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3 of his bad Third Reich copies shown above just went for a combined total of £709 today on eBay UK. Not a bad days work.
For anyone who missed out on those, fortunately he’s got an incredibly rare original Land of The Rising Sun Japanese flag from WW2. Don’t miss out on this one.
WW2 JAP RISING SUN THREE FEET LONG BATTLE FLAG | eBay
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Nice Afrika cuff title as well!
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