Bad Seller in Italy - Mauroy 72

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Beware the following Ebay seller, located in Naples, Italy. "mauroy72", whose name is Mauro Abbondandolo. He is advertising mint condition Lile knives and the one I bought is definitely NOT mint condition and may be counterfeit. A Sly II advertised as "early production" in "mint condition" is either a counterfeit or has been amateurishly re-ground. Wide bright edges claimed to be done by the Lile shop appear to have been clumsily added with a Dremel or similar tool. The "original" Buffaloe sheath accompanying the knife was instantly identified by Jim Buffaloe as having been made within the past five years, due to the logos. The allegedly matching Gents folder is in fact a "Dot Lile" (if real), so was obtained separately. Despite ample evidence that the knife was misrepresented, Abbondandolo is refusing a refund. I am escalating the complaint with PayPal and Ebay.

As of 10/24/2006 PayPal has resolved this issue in my favor. The items were returned to the Seller and PayPal was able to refund me my money.
 
I contacted the seller directing him to this thread.Let's see if he will respond to the allegations.:)
 
He won't come on here. He is one of those that uses retaliatory feedback to try to keep people from leaving him negative feedback, even when deserved. You will notice that he has left negative feedback with everyone that done so to him. One of the things I look for on eBay is how people handle their negative feedback. I wouldn't buy anything from that guy.
 
I welcome that. And then let us invite the other Ebay members who have contacted me with their own horror stories. Particularly about how his knives are mostly purchased by one individual, emyb184, when they aren't being bid high enough. And then how the knives purchased by emyb184 are suddenly listed again by Mauroy72 a few weeks later. And how most of his glowing feedback comes from this one individual.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
He won't come on here. He is one of those that uses retaliatory feedback to try to keep people from leaving him negative feedback, even when deserved. You will notice that he has left negative feedback with everyone that done so to him. One of the things I look for on eBay is how people handle their negative feedback. I wouldn't buy anything from that guy.
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Those sellers are the friggin worst! :thumbdn: :barf:
 
He failed to pay for a knife on ebay, then left a NFB for the seller. Sounds like a good guy to avoid.

whitie
 
The thing that I've never understood about some ebay sellers is why they would wait until you leave feedback to give feedback. If I win an auction and then pay for the item, I have done all that I can do. The seller should be able to leave feedback then. I still have to look at the item before I can leave feedback. So if they need to see my feedback before they leave it for me, I guess they are not leaving feedback on my payment and such, but on the way I left feedback.
 
jd_elam said:
The thing that I've never understood about some ebay sellers is why they would wait until you leave feedback to give feedback. If I win an auction and then pay for the item, I have done all that I can do. The seller should be able to leave feedback then. I still have to look at the item before I can leave feedback. So if they need to see my feedback before they leave it for me, I guess they are not leaving feedback on my payment and such, but on the way I left feedback.
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Consider starting a new thread, or searching on this topic.
 
He has his edges polished. He is a fake and rarely responds to emails etc.

Unfortunately, he does have some rare Lile 'rambo' knives, some even prototypes. he does not deserve them.
 
Happy to post item in question picture. Follow this link to see closeup pictures of the Sly II blade. Notice how much material has been ground off to blade itself, resulting in that weird triangle. Also notice how the wide bright edges have been done with a Dremel or similar tool:
 
Based on the pics that knife is not mint IMO. I don't know about the fake part, I'm no Lile expert. I know of a genuine Lile in Milano so there are Lile knives in Italy.
If the knife is genuine and the seller won't refund you, all is not lost. The original finish looks like beadblasted. You could have it sharpened and re-blasted by a maker with experience. It won't make it new but would definitely look better.
Maybe I'm completely wrong and this is how Lile made it ... I doubt it very much though.
 
If you post some pics to the Bernard Levine Collecting and Identification Forum of Bladeforums, they may be interested in this thread as well...
 
Jeop86 said:
Victory: PayPal got my money back!
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Glad to see you got your money back. That guy is obviously a A$$ Hat! As Keith mentioned he used retaliatory feedback to justify his horrible service, and mis-advertised items. I would never, ever buy or sell anything to that clown! Glad to see it worked out:thumbup:
 
The seller has apparently refinished the knife I successfully disputed once again, because it looks like it is back on sale on Ebay (Item number: 170078484220 posted 2/6/07). It looks as though he removed the handle wrapping and had the knife bead-blasted to remove the poorly added wide bright edges. He has also replaced what he claimed was an "early" Jim Buffaloe sheath (which Jim verified had been made recently) with a Johnson sheath from one of his other knives. However, he could not change the evidence that won me my dispute: check out the base of the blade, where evidence of excessive sharpening and re-grinding is clearly visible in the strange curve of the blade profile. Yet he is again claiming it is mint condition, never sharpened, never carried. I notice he doesn't accept PayPal anymore and does not offer Buyer Protection. Guess I burned him a little...
 
This Mauro, also conned an Australian knife collector recently, who has now moved it on to a French collector. A number of years ago now, I remember seeing Mauro's numerous posts (he likes to bomb various groups with multiple photographs of the same knives) on how he was making a number of replica Rambo First Blood Part 2 compound bow laser sights...He claimed to the Australian knife collector, that the one he sold him, was one of approximately 3-4 ever made by the person who made the one for the movie...This is total fabrication, and he bodged them out of a certain make of rifle scope, incorporating a cheap generic laser pointer. The guy has no has qualms of relieving trusting and in most cases naive collectors out of their hard earned money.
 
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