M42 with a camo cover

[MAP]

The same helmet popped up for sale again.

Like a bad penny.

Is someone trying to flip it? Or maybe this is a scam? Photos are different though

[Anderson]

Or someone who burned their fingers trying to recover their loss.

[BlackCat1982]

The phrase that comes to mind is "bad to the bone".

[AxelSomething]

Like a bad penny.

Is someone trying to flip it? Or maybe this is a scam? Photos are different though

I think the person who bought originally it didn't like it in hand and decided to put it for sale (on a Finnish site, sort of like eBay). Curious about what it will go for this time, currently at 151 euros.

[Jan]

Seems so yes... The latest question to the seller is "Where did you get the helmet?" let´s see what (if) he answers.

Best,

Jan

[Jan]

And his answer is ...

"I bought it from a friend who had bought the helmet from a man from Lappland a long time ago"

Best,

Jan

[hanell571]

I think that the seller bought the helmet for just to make a profit. He advertises in one other finnish site that he is "a military historian who buys militaria". And everything he buys he sells.
He sells a lot of fake stuff, like for example those russian helmets that I posted in other threads. Everytime when someone calls out that he is selling fakes he asks the site admins to remove those comments. And if the price doesn't get high enough, then always the same nickname buys the stuff and later it pop out in a different auction. I can bet that if this helmet goes for less than he paid for it will happen again.
I strongly advise that anyone who collects militaria in Finland would avoid that seller. I know that sometimes he has good stuff for sale but personally I wouldn't buy anything from him.

[CSW]

And for those who haven't been following this particular mess on the auction site, the seller's account was just recently banned because of this and other scams. A rather amusing end considering how aggressively he was threatening to have other users banned just for exposing his fakes.

[AxelSomething]

And for those who haven't been following this particular mess on the auction site, the seller's account was just recently banned because of this and other scams. A rather amusing end considering how aggressively he was threatening to have other users banned just for exposing his fakes.

Familiar background on these listings on different accounts. Seems like his other account got suspended too.