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Is it just me or does it seem that people selling on the Bay are listing their knives incorrectly with more frequency. I browse several categories of the category Buck 110 and it sometime amazes me what people say to represent their knife. For Ex; calling knives a four dot knife counting the rocker rivet, saying a knife is a three liner when it clearly is not, and just flat making up a year it was manufactured. Is it ignorance? I want to give people the benefit of the doubt but sometimes I just shake my head.
 
Ignorance, sometimes. Other times deliberate deception. Buyer beware.
 
Most people don't know buck dates their knives. Unless your a Buck guy.
 
Most I believe just don't know the difference. They see someone list a 119 as a 2 liner and think that is just the name of that particular knife not understanding the reasoning behind the description.
I doubt it most are doing it on purpose. On a few occasions I have corrected the seller and they respond back that they don't know knives and are just going by other descriptions others have used
and once I explained it to them they understood the reasoning behind it. I like it when they state new and never sharpened when in all reality the knife is beat up and or sharpened to death.
And yes, buyer beware.
 
Makael said:
Most people don't know buck dates their knives. Unless your a Buck guy.
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I think most (but not all) sellers there intentionally misrepresent what they are offering.
The sad fact is most (but not all) buyers are too lazy to research what they are bidding on, even if it is finding a tang stamp chart which is fairly easy to find for most brands, to date the knife.
Hence, the deception, fraud, and over cleaned/polished frankenknives continue.
 
the sad fact is---feebay has the button "have one to sell" "sell now" --and the loser seller just clicks that button and copies the listing with their feebay name on it--SOMETIMES they change the picture and other times they don't---I have had my listings copied word for word --pic for pic and I have emailed these idiots and told them I don't appreciate them copying my work and they tell me to FO.....so as the buyer it is up to you to dissect what you are buying before you buy----read complete description---and don't just look at pics on yer flip phone and buy it....if ya just read the title and get all excited and buy it now ---sorry bout yer luck!!!!!!
if ya check out the buck knife listings on feebay -I would guess 75% of them ,,the sellers don't have a clue as to what they have....
 
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I have bought a lot of knives on the bay and as dogpounds says, read the description, look at the pics and the sellers feedback. Out of the 60 or so knives I've bought I only got burned once on a Chinese auto 110. It was before I found this forum. There are some really good deals but you definitely have to be careful. Sellers with good feedback try to be accurate with descriptions but no one knows everything about all of the products out there. It is up to the buyer to do the research and if the description is bad ebay usually protects the buyer. Just my 2 cents.
Marc
 
Saw a Buck 121 today and seller description was good condition , has a few scratches on blade.
Blade looked like it was serrated and spine had been hammered on. Buyer beware.
 
DOGPOUND77 said:
...so as the buyer it is up to you to dissect what you are buying before you buy----read complete description---and don't just look at pics on yer flip phone and buy it...
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I would add that asking questions and for more and better pictures will help aid in keeping you from being disappointed. Preston
 
That is common. They never really take the time to read and learn Buck terms. They merely hear it and Think, this must be what they are meaning when they say it. Plus, I think some of it is intentional, to make it sound older than what it is. Which is renowned for sellers on ebAY.
DM
 
I believe some do in fact try to deceive people. One on the bay list a Buck 110 as BOS 5160 steel. Looking at the pictures it is clearly just a standard 110. If they don't photograph all sides of the knife you better watch out. Makes me feel that when they do that they are trying to hide something. And then there are those that like to state it's "RARE". And they have been collecting and around knives for years having never seen one like this before. Stay away from that line for sure.
 
Ebay is a cesspool of misinformation. Yes, there are the deliberate deceivers but what happens more frequently is that the unknowledgable find an ad with a knife that looks like theirs and copy the description not knowing their knife may be a different vintage. The misinformation propagates itself, you can sometimes follow along which ads were copied. Years ago I had this idea I was helping people explaining the error, I came to realize it was a fools errand and unwanted, unappreciated.
 
"BUCK POCKET KNIFE 303 NOS. USA MADE PORTLAND OREGON"

I thought I knew a fair amount about the 303.

Bert
 
m r merrill said:
Out of the 60 or so knives I've bought I only got burned once on a Chinese auto 110. It was before I found this forum.
Marc
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I got burned on one of those locally, found the forum about a month later. Now I seek out those listings and report them as counterfeit items, $140 on a wrongly-described item is a kick in a place I don't want to be kicked.
 
Sometimes it can be used to your benefit. I have picked up really nice 110's that were listed as something else and had no bidders. One I remember only had the title "deer knife".
 
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bertl said:
"BUCK POCKET KNIFE 303 NOS. USA MADE PORTLAND OREGON"

I thought I knew a fair amount about the 303.
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I contacted the seller and asked why they thought it was made in Portland. The seller replied and said it was in an old beat up box that said Portland. The listing was changed.

Bert
 
1Ronin said:
I believe some do in fact try to deceive people. One on the bay list a Buck 110 as BOS 5160 steel. Looking at the pictures it is clearly just a standard 110. If they don't photograph all sides of the knife you better watch out. Makes me feel that when they do that they are trying to hide something. And then there are those that like to state it's "RARE". And they have been collecting and around knives for years having never seen one like this before. Stay away from that line for sure.
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Yes, there are 2 listed by the same person now as "SUPER RARE", they look to me to be what we see everyday here.....nothing rare at all about them
 
Most of the time I just chuckle but if the seller seems like a good guy I'll send a note especially if it's a relative selling after the collector has passed away and they don't have clue what they have. But a few times that has backfired..
 
"OLD BUCK KNIFE MADE USA IDAHO , 303 WITH DASH BY THE 3 STAMP"

Well, the listing was changed and at least it doesn't say Portland anymore.

Bert
 
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