Remember a post I wrote a few years ago about an eBay seller who sold me a comic he said had no pen markings, yet when it arrived, the cover had parts coloured in with a red marker? The same guy is selling the above page for £99, even though there's no way to prove its source as most, if not all, back covers on Marvel mags that month would have carried the same ad. Do you get the impression the guy's a bit of a chancer? He's sure got a brass neck! And in the highly unlikely event that single pages can sell for up to £4,000 (as he claims), it would be a story page, not a back page ad which shows no indication as to which issue it's from. You can actually buy complete issues of Journey Into Mystery #83 in decent condition for around four grand, and probably even a page of original art for that price. To me, this just shows he regards his potential customers with contempt. What do you say, Crivvies?
4 comments:
Kid, I'd say, take his scanned image, copy it if it's clear enough, and print a tribute version for your own personal use. It may not be original but at least in your own way you've scammed a previous scammer, and it didn't cost £99.00...'He's taking the yellow bodily fluid, for sure!'
I've actually got J.I.M. #83, AAW, so I could just scan the back cover from that. However, I don't have the energy to do a 'tribute' version so I'll let the seller's effrontery speak for itself. I find it hard to believe that he actually thinks anyone would be stupid enough to pay that amount, but I suppose he must or else why list it?
He's got 100% feedback, so folks must be happy to be mislead on occasion...Very strange? I've been slightly misinformed over ebay items before, so I've sometimes left negative feedback, or none at all, depending on the cost. He must be one of the lucky 'tricky-traders' on ebay?
I suspect he's probably had negative feedback and had eBay remove it, which they're only too happy to do to keep their 'big' sellers happy. I once left negative and 100% true feedback for another seller, but he somehow managed to persuade eBay to 'kill' it. Maybe his ridiculously-priced items never sell, which is why his feedback remains positive. However, some buyers are more easily pleased than others with their purchases, even when they have justifiable cause for complaint.
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