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Author Topic: This does not look like a St Louis to me  (Read 1404 times)

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Offline RescoCCC

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This does not look like a St Louis to me
« on: June 15, 2014, 10:55:24 PM »
To me it looks like a Murano with a bogus signature scratched in to the base. What do you guys think?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161338631327

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Re: This does not look like a St Louis to me
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 11:32:59 PM »
I agree definitely murano.

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Re: This does not look like a St Louis to me
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2014, 11:41:53 PM »
Well, at least the seller revised after I contacted him and added a question mark to the title and a disclaimer in the listing. He also dropped the opening bid to $9.99, so it's likely nobody will get hurt.

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Re: This does not look like a St Louis to me
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2014, 10:09:24 AM »
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I think the question mark is still disingenuous, to put it politely, when the item is a fake.

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Re: This does not look like a St Louis to me
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2014, 04:04:28 PM »
I agree. But sometimes I think that's the best I can hope for when I contact these sellers. This one just ignored me when I told him his "Clichy" is Chinese:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181438912657

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Re: This does not look like a St Louis to me
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2014, 09:02:59 PM »
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The original item discussed has now vanished: not ended by the seller, but removed from the eBay database, so I guess eBay pulled it.  Maybe a few people (perhaps even Saint-Louis themselves) told eBay it was a potentially fraudulent listing?

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Re: This does not look like a St Louis to me
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2014, 09:15:28 PM »
I reported the seller. I always give them a chance to correct the listing, and if they don't I hit the report link. Sometimes eBay takes action, sometimes they don't. I think it depends on the knowledge level of the person receiving the report.

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