Do these look like real Al Mars?

I'd say NO!!
The "I think" in the discription is a dead giveaway. The Quality just isn't there for an Al Mar. The photo's are also just blurry enough to keep you from reading the blade.
 
Impossible to tell without a decent pic of the characters used but I will say the ones one the sheath don't resemble the characters Al Mar uses as far as I can see. here is the kanji that AL Mar has always used

http://www.almarknives.com/
 
Well,

Al Mar was Chinese, not Japanese. The stamp (Chop) used on Al Mar products is his name in Chinese and has never changed, even though I cannot make-out the charachters in the eBay pics, I can tell they are not the same.

Just based on the quality of stitching on the leather sheath, I do not believe it is an Al Mar hand-made.

It probably is a Japanese hand-made knife.
 
Whoa!
Name dropping of the highest order.
The seller wrote,
"..Up for auction is this custom knife made - I think - by the Al Mar Knife Co...."

Well I don't think that the late Al Mar hand MADE knives, hls knife making qualifications made him only a KNIFE DESIGNER and not a custom knifesmith as such.
 
I hate eBay title spammers with a passion.

In this case, though, it looks like somebody has a no-name knife they can't identify, and list it up on eBay as "Gee, it might be this one!" to make a quick buck.

At least that's not as bad as some auctions I've seen. Every time I search for parts for my Phantom paintball marker, I come up with at least 5 listings for "CUSTIOM AUTOCOCKER PUMP **NOT PHANTOM** NEW TOURNAMENT SUP0R L337 1111!!" or a similar title.
 
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